Voice of Witness

Cause Area

  • Advocacy & Human Rights
  • Arts & Culture
  • Education & Literacy

Location

849 VALENCIA STSAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110 United States
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Mission Statement

Voice of Witness (VOW) is a non-profit dedicated to fostering a more nuanced, empathy-based understanding of contemporary human rights crises. We do this by amplifying the voices of men and women most closely affected by injustice, and by providing curricular and training support to educators and invested communities. Voice of Witness (VOW) is a non-profit dedicated to fostering a more nuanced, empathy-based understanding of contemporary human rights crises. We do this by amplifying the voices of men and women most closely affected by injustice, and by providing curricular and training support to educators and invested communities. - See more at: http://voiceofwitness.org/about/#sthash.gQCGwazv.dpuf

Description

VOW Book Series: VOW has so far published thirteen titles in its series. We publish an average of two oral history titles each year, with our thirteenth book, Palestine Speaks,released in November 2014. To date, our series has covered a wide variety of social justice issues, ranging from post-9/11 civil rights and the criminal justice system to the experiences of men and women living under oppressive regimes in Burma, Zimbabwe and Colombia.

VOW Education Program: Our education team offers year-round site visits and workshops for schools and community organizations, a summer intensive oral history training called Amplifying Unheard Voices, and common core aligned curriculum through our website and publication The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History. Over the past year, we reached over 9,000 high school to graduate level students.

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