VOICE OF WITNESS -A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP

Voice of Witness (VOW) is a San Francisco–based 501(c)(3) oral history nonprofit that documents and publishes first-person narratives from people directly affected by human-rights issues. The organization produces a book series of edited oral histories and operates a national education program that provides free lesson plans, curricula, and training to educators and community partners.

Founded by writers and oral-history practitioners (including Mimi Lok, Dave Eggers, and Lola Vollen), VOW partners with grassroots organizations, schools, cultural institutions, and funders to center historically marginalized storytellers in classrooms, media, and policy conversations. In recent years VOW has expanded fellowship and partnership work (including a Storyteller Initiative), distributed thousands of books into classrooms through its Sharing History program, and continued to produce place-based and thematic oral-history projects that aim to support narrative change and advocacy.