Photo: Isabel Allende reads Gabriel Méndez’s story from Solito, Solita at our 2019 Brave Stories, Bold Movements event
Isabel Allende & Lori Barra in Conversation with Mimi Lok
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VOICE OF WITNESS
Becoming Stronger Advocates
Voice of Witness cofounder and executive director Mimi Lok recently caught up with longtime VOW supporters Isabel Allende and Lori Barra. Isabel is an acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and humanitarian. Her most recent book is The Soul of a Woman. Her daughter-in-law Lori Barra is a noted designer-turned-philanthropist and photographer. Lori runs the Isabel Allende Foundation, which Isabel started over two decades ago to pay homage to her late daughter, Paula Frias. The foundation invests in the power of women and girls to secure reproductive rights, economic independence, and freedom from violence.
