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Members of The Voices and Faces Project and alums of our Stories We Tell writing program.

Over 1200 writers and advocates have taken part in The Stories We Tell, our two-day testimonial writing program. These are just a few of our graduates!

Support our virtual Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund and give the gift of change.

The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project's immersive, two-day testimonial writing program, was developed to help those who have survived or witnessed gender-based violence and other human rights violations use their personal stories to call for social and political change.

To date, over 1200 writers from across North America and Africa have taken part in The Stories We Tell. Most recently we've expanded our programming, launching Writing a New Refugee Story, a two day storytelling workshop for refugees and undocumented immigrants and debuting Testimony & Transformation, a writing program for Chicago-area men impacted by the criminal justice system.

In light of the COVID crisis, and in an effort to reach a larger audience, The Voices and Faces is debuting a series of virtual writing and advocacy programs in 2021, including "Up Next," an advanced writing program for graduates of The Stories We Tell, and "Personal, Political and Powerful: Writing a personal essay that creates political change."

Help an emerging writer or advocate use their voice to create change by giving to our 2021 Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund. Every $650 we raise provides a full, two-day scholarship to an applicant ready to take part in our groundbreaking, and now virtual, writing program.

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We’re collaborating with Justice for Migrant Women on Find the Right Words, a virtual storytelling and advocacy training.

Voices and Faces Project partner Firuzeh Shokooh Valle is a "Find the Right Words" presenter.

During Find the Right Words — a curated six part communications and storytelling training — the Rural Women Collective Fellows at Justice for Migrant Women will explore effective strategies for using personal narrative to create political change … consider uniquely creative mediums for effective storytelling … and gain practical skills in public speaking, media engagement and personal essay writing.

Each session will engage a creative or storytelling thought leader (or leaders) affiliated with The Voices and Faces Project; together this series will provide a deep and wide education in strategic storytelling and change-focused communications. Special thanks to Jimmie Briggs, Nikki Patin, Marline Johnson, R. Clifton Spargo, Katie Feifer and Firuzeh Shokooh Valle for being a part of our Find the Right Words team, and a special shout out to Anne K. Ream, who created and curated the series.
To bring Find the Right Words to your community, email janet@voicesandfaces.org

Save the date: Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream is a featured presenter in the Now & Next Speakers Series. Join us on January 14, 2021.

Lived Through This author Anne K. Ream.

Social movements are fueled by many factors. Strategic messaging is one of the most critical. But what makes for effective communications strategy? And how can we best use our own voices and stories to create lasting social change?

During "The Movement is the Message" Anne K. Ream will consider strategies for using personal narrative to create political change … think in new ways about how language and word choice can break through partisan barriers in our politically polarized era … explore ways that we can each discover our own, truly unique "change styles" … and showcase a handful of history's and today's most effective strategic storytellers. Featured as part of World Without Exploitation's Now & Next Speakers Series, "The Movement is the Message" is part of Marketing a Movement, a communications workshop series The Voices and Faces Project created in partnership with Brew Communications and through the support of NoVo Foundation.

Our stories are our power.
At The Voices and Faces Project we’re using them to create change.

The Voices and Faces Project is an award-winning non-profit storytelling initiative created to bring the names, faces, and testimonies of survivors of gender-based violence to the attention of the public. Through our educational and advocacy trainings, survivor story archive and signature program, The Stories We Tell — an immersive, two-day testimonial writing workshop for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations — we seek to change minds, hearts, and public policies through the power of personal testimony. The Voices and Faces Project has been named one of America's Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America, and is a registered 501c3 organization.

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