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Join us for a 3/11 conversation on the margins of the 70th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Anne K. Ream, Karl Bardosh, Patricia O’Dusami, Veronica Blecker, Eve Pomerance, and Queen Angelique-Monet Gureje-Thompson.

Art, memory, and resistance. What does AI have to do with it?

AI for Peace in the Global Response to Violence Against Women and Girls - a day long conference on the margins of the 70th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - will bring together global human rights leaders, advocates, artists, writers, and technologists seeking to address a critical question: how can AI be shaped responsibly to advance justice, accountability, and survivor-centered solutions? 


The conference is being organized by Microsoft, Apne Aap Women Worldwide, Generative AI for Good, European Network of Migrant Women, and New Generation in Action. 


Author and Center for Story & Witness co-founder Anne K. Ream will be a featured panelist at the conference, joining filmmaker Veronica Blecker, writer Eve Pomerance, women’s leadership advocate Patricia O’Dusami, and director/writer Karl Bardosh of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for Art, Resistance & Memory, a conversation about the creative possibilities and ethical challenges of AI-enabled artistic expression. 


The conversation will be moderated by Her Royal Majesty Queen Angelique-Monet Gureje-Thompson.


AI for Peace in the Global Response to Violence Against Women and Girls  is a gathering that invites artists, activists, writers, and technologists to consider not only what is possible with AI —but what is responsible, humane, and just. We hope to see you there!


AI FOR PEACE IN THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. 


Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Microsoft, Times Square

New York City, NY

(or online)

UPCOMING EVENTS

SIXTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL LAW CONFERENCE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN.
Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Esther Salas, United States District Court Judge; Anne K. Ream, Center for Story & Witness, to receive the 2026 Epiq Women Award for Justice and Advocacy.

March 10, 2026

New York City Bar Association

New York City, NY

AI FOR PEACE IN THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: A DAY LONG CONFERENCE ON THE MARGINS OF THE UN’s 70TH SESSION OF COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. 
Organized by Apne Aap, Microsoft and AI for Good; Anne K. Ream, Center for Story & Witness, is a featured panelist.

March 11, 2026

Microsoft, Times Square

New York City, NY

(or online)

CREATIVE INTERRUPTION: THE THEOLOGY OF PEACE CONFERENCE.
Center for Story & Witness co-founders Anne K. Ream and R. Clifton Spargo and ethicist and theologian Wolfgang Palaver are keynote presenters.

July 7, 2026 | 9A-5P CST

DePaul Center

Chicago, IL

THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LITERARY AWARDS: A PRINTERS ROW LIT FEST EVENT.
Keynote TBA; Co-Chairs Anne K. Ream of Center for Story & Witness & Rosellen Brown of Art Institute of Chicago to give opening remarks.

September 2026

The Union League Club

Chicago, IL

BEARING WITNESS: A CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION & AUCTION.
Presented by Center for Story & Witness in partnership with Art Works for Change; curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg in alliance with Tiphanie Spencer-Babinet.

Fall/Winter 2026




ABOUT CENTER FOR STORY & WITNESS


At Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices and Faces Project) our mission is to cultivate and share stories that bear witness to gender-based violence and other social injustices in order to change minds, hearts, and public policies. Through our testimonial writing workshops, our narrative advocacy trainings, and our performances, publications and campaigns, we seek to create measurable social change through the power of narrative.

 

For 16 years, we have been awarded the America’s Best Charities Seal of Excellence, a designation given to organizations that meet the highest standards of public accountability and program/cost effectiveness.



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