At Center for Story & Witness — a global storytelling initiative and testimonial writing program — we love celebrating the successes of our staff, workshop alums, and organizational allies. In April, 2025, there was a lot to celebrate as the Skoll Foundation convened the Skoll World Forum, a global, curated delegation of social innovators working to advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

The 2025 Skoll World Forum delegation included six persons near and dear to our organization: Anne K. Ream, Co-Founder of Center for Story & Witness; Monica Ramirez, founder of our longstanding partner organization Justice for Migrant Women; Jimmie Briggs, a facilitator for our Center for Story & Witness writing workshops; Rachel Foster, a longstanding Center for Story & Witness ally and founding co-chair at World Without Exploitation; and Alisa Roadcup and Chantale Zuzi, alums of our award-winning writing program and the leadership at Refugee Can Be.

In a world that is too often unjust and inequitable, coming together to create change has never felt more urgent and necessary than it does right now — which is why we applaud the Skoll World Forum and congratulate these delegates.