Community Partnerships VOW’s relationships with community-based organizations and advocacy groups are critical to our goal of centering the marginalized voices and social justice movements reflected in our oral history book series. Our vision is that “voices of witness” become “voices of authority” in mainstream discourse and meaningful reform that leads to material social change. By connecting both VOW narrators and audiences to direct services, organizing efforts, and advocacy movements, and by training and supporting partner organizations to use personal narrative and oral history storytelling for change, we aim to inform long-term efforts to advance human rights and dignity and dismantle systems of oppression.
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT:
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Last year we had the privilege of partnering with the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC). NIWRC is a Native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against Native women and children. NIWRC provides national leadership in ending gender-based violence in tribal communities by lifting up the collective voices of grassroots advocates and offering culturally grounded resources, technical assistance and training, and policy development to strengthen tribal sovereignty.
Text by: Ela Banerjee, Community Partnership Coordinator at Voice of Witness
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VOICE OF WITNESS
Amplifying & Centering Marginalized Voices
