Anne K. Ream, co-founder of Center for Story & Witness, was recently part of a powerful strategy day held in Oxford, England: Resourcing a Global… Read More »It’s time to resource a global gender-justice movement. How do we get there?
Melva “Mimi” Taylor Grimes – an activist and educator who taught for three decades in Chicago-area elementary schools before becoming a supervisor of teaching education… Read More »Support the Mimi Grimes Scholarship Fund and give the gift of change.
We know from history and social justice movements – particularly the movement to end human trafficking – that the stories of those who have lived… Read More »A Story Changes Everything: Ivana De Maria and Anne K. Ream at the World Without Exploitation National Convening.
At Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices and Faces Project) we know we cannot experience violence or dislocation without experiencing trauma. And trauma… Read More »How do we heal from trauma? One story, and one song, at a time.
Dear Friend, In 2006, a collective of artists, activists, and gender-based violence survivors launched The Voices and Faces Project, a global storytelling project created… Read More »The Voices and Faces Project is now Center for Story & Witness
During a time when misogyny is increasingly normalized, survivor voices continue to be silenced, and programs to address gender-based violence are threatened in unprecedented ways,… Read More »Truthful, hopeful & countercultural: Amy Griffin’s The Tell is the book we need now.
At Center for Story & Witness — a global storytelling initiative and testimonial writing program — we love celebrating the successes of our staff, workshop… Read More »Thank you, Skoll World Forum, & congratulations to our Center for Story & Witness affiliated delegates.
Louder Together, Center for Story & Witness’s crowdsourced poetry project, seeks to create video poetry that speaks to a range of human rights and social justice… Read More »Louder Together: Discover our crowdsourced poetry project.
In September, 2024, Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices and Faces Project) traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia, where we partnered with UN Women to… Read More »We’re partnering with IREX, UN Women and the US State Dept.
This summer, award-winning playwright Caity-Shea Violette, an alum of our Stories We Tell testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence, and novelist R. Clifton… Read More »A conversation about story for social change at Yale University.