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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 06/11/2025

In the midst of profound political and economic tension, the need for community-driven storytelling feels more urgent than ever. At VOW, we've taken this moment to reflect, reimagine, and respond. Learn more about how VOW has adapted to meet the moment in our 2025 Annual Report. 🔗 bit.ly/VOW-AR25

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 03/11/2025

Join us for Storytelling in Practice – a series of intimate conversations with impactful storytellers! 🎙✨ Hear from our 3 incredible guests: ⊹ NOV 13 • Lyndsie Bourgon, FRCGS 🔗 sip-lb.eventbrite.com ⊹ DEC 03 • Kristal Sotomayor 🔗 sip-ks.eventbrite.com ⊹ DEC 10 • feini yin 🔗 sip-fy.eventbrite.com

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 02/09/2025

🔊 Community Voices Initiative is back! Applications are now open for Fall 2025 — apply by 9/28 to take a deep dive into the practice of oral history & ethical storytelling with VOW! 📅 Oct 7 - Nov 18, 2025 💻 Virtual 🚨 Only 20 spots available 📝 Details & application: bit.ly/CVI-fall25

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 29/08/2025

This week marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina — a disaster of unprecedented scale in American history. To commemorate this anniversary, we invite you to read VOICES FROM THE STORM, VOW's book that amplifies the voices of impacted New Orleanians. 📚 Order the book now: bit.ly/voicesfromthestorm

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 28/08/2025

Join us in welcoming VOW's new board members! After an extensive search process, we have 6 engaging, committed, and experienced professionals joining the VOW community: Lyndsie Bourgon, Giselle Chow, Vanessa Johnson, Louisa Morassutti, Sangeetha Rai & Tea Rozman Learn more at bit.ly/VOWboard

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 26/06/2025

VOW's summer workshop series kicks off on 7/9! ✨ Join us virtually for an intro to our ethics-driven approach to oral history storytelling, with a focus on trauma-informed practices and centering the needs and experiences of narrators throughout the project. 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/VOW-workshop1

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 28/05/2025

🗓️ Bay Area – join us at the Teach Truth Day of Action event on Saturday, June 7 in #Berkeley. We're proud to be a co-sponsor. 📚 Resources and book fair 🎵 Music 🍛 Food 🎨 Art 🤝 Community Together we can fight back against classroom censorship and book bans. #RightToRead #FreedomToLearn #TeachTruth

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 27/05/2025

Donate at Bit.ly/OurStories25 to support VOW’s narrative work and trainings for immigrant justice. What other resources or orgs working toward immigrant justice are on your radar? Share them in the comments 🦋

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 27/05/2025

We know that sharing these stories builds power, strengthens advocacy efforts, and challenges harmful narratives.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 27/05/2025

At Voice of Witness, we’ve spent nearly 20 years documenting and amplifying stories from immigrants and refugees fighting for dignity and safety.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 27/05/2025

When borders are weaponized and asylum is under attack, storytelling becomes a lifeline. Oral history is memory infrastructure—it preserves truths and experiences that institutions try to erase.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 19/05/2025

VOW oral history projects have been preserved in archives, published in media, read aloud on the floor of Congress, shared in textbooks and museums, and used in advocacy campaigns for justice and dignity. Donate today to protect powerful firsthand accounts that belong in our shared public record.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 19/05/2025

At Voice of Witness, we know that #OralHistory and #Storytelling are crucial tools for building power and connection, preserving memory, and challenging injustice. We’re launching the Our Stories Are Resistance campaign with a $20,000 goal because we can’t fight back alone: bit.ly/ourstories25

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 19/05/2025

Across the country, stories are under attack: books banned, archives erased, and critical funding slashed. Organizations, including Voice of Witness, have had funding terminated by federal agencies.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 15/05/2025

🗓️ Join us on May 21st for this webinar! We'll be talking with Diya Abdo about documenting refugee experiences, amplifying newcomer voices, and advocating for inclusion and belonging. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/oral-histo... #OralHistory #Storytelling #RefugeesWelcome #HigherEd

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 29/04/2025

✨ Join us on May 7th for this webinar! We'll be talking with Mark Menjívar about participatory projects rooted in oral history, archives, photography, and social action. Learn more and register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/oral-histo... #OralHistory #Storytelling #Archives #Memory #Photography

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 14/04/2025

Attend the film screening of No Separate Survival, hosted by our partner East Bay Sanctuary Covenant on April 15th. This short documentary and community project was co-produced with asylum seekers on both sides of the US/Mexico border. Stay for a Q&A panel with the director & the film's narrators.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 09/04/2025

Join us on April 23rd for this webinar! We'll be talking with Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz about using oral history to honor our past, make meaning of our present, and vision liberated futures. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/oral-histo... #OralHistory #Storytelling #Archives #OctaviaButler

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 07/04/2025

It’s #RightToReadDay and #NationalLibraryWeek. We need to collectively advocate for the freedom to read, the freedom to access information, and the freedom to find community — all of the opportunities books and libraries provide. New attacks are threatening programs, funding, books, and educators.

Image of a student reading a book and text that says "Take Action on Right to Read Day"

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 01/04/2025

🗓 The Library of Virginia is hosting a talk with Katrina Powell, editor of the VOW book Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia. Free and open to the public on April 10th at 6pm ET – tell your local friends! #OralHistory #RichmondVA #ImmigrantJustice #Appalachia

Image of editor Katrina Powell and the cover of the book Beginning Again

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 20/03/2025

➡️ Feini Yin is a journalist, community organizer, and fishmonger living on Lenapehoking, so-called Philadelphia. They build power with family-scale and traditional fishing communities as an organizer with Block Corporate Salmon, the North American Marine Alliance, and Fishadelphia.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 20/03/2025

➡ Kristal Sotomayor is an award-winning nonbinary Peruvian American filmmaker, journalist, and curator based in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Their films "Expanding Sanctuary" and "Don't Cry For Me All You Drag Queens" have screened around the world.

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 14/03/2025

☀ #BayArea – join us on Saturday for the Rays of Resilience event hosted by our friends @eltimpano.bsky.social. It's a space for community, art & healing. We’ll be there facilitating a storytelling station for people to record their experiences and memories and reflect on community resilience 🎙

Rays of Resilience event info: Saturday, March 15th at Josie de la Cruz Park in Oakland

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 12/03/2025

📢 Exciting news: Voice of Witness is looking for dedicated individuals to join our Board of Directors and contribute to our impact. Interested in supporting community-based storytelling, oral history, and education for justice? #Nonprofit #NonprofitBoard #BoardofDirectors #NonprofitLeadership

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 07/03/2025

Interested in collaborating? We'd love to hear from you! Reach out via our website contact form: voiceofwitness.org/contact #OralHistory #EthicalStorytelling #HumanRights #Education #NarrativeChange

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 04/03/2025

✨ Sneak peek! We sat down with Sital for our Sonic Tablecloth storytelling project 🎙️ Sital Muktari is the incredible chef behind That Hausa Vegan, which brings Northern Nigerian dishes to Oakland with a plant-based spin.

Sital, a chef, is interviewed for the Sonic Tablecloth project

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 19/02/2025

➡ Learn about Fanny's journey and the "applied oral history" framework she uses to create impact: voiceofwitness.org/staff-spotli... Interested in working with Fanny and VOW? Reach out via our website! #OralHistory #Storytelling #NarrativeChange

Quote text: "I want more and more people to know what oral history is and how it can be used outside the world of academia. I want oral history by the people, for the people. Oral history can transform the way we see ourselves, each other, and society."

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 19/02/2025

✨ Staff Spotlight! Fanny Julissa García, our Editorial Program Manager, was interviewed in the US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal about her experiences in the field and approach to this work. @utexaspress.bsky.social

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 30/01/2025

In an increasingly unstable political environment, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Voice of Witness are offering a webinar on Wed, February 12th to support educators in bringing curriculum around immigration & first-person stories from immigrants into their classrooms. Register here: bit.ly/40GryP8

Webinar for Educators: Amplifying Sanctuary Voices Migration Project Educators Guide

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Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org · 13/01/2025

Join us for a free webinar on February 25th. We'll provide an intro to VOW's ethics-driven storytelling methodology and the use of oral history to document and amplify first-person testimonies. RSVP and spread the word! Registration is required: bit.ly/3E2zsL3 #OralHistory #Storytelling #EduSky

A red and white poster promotes the webinar with an image featuring an audio recorder and notebook

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