Our stories are our power.
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, our survivor story archives (housed at The Voices and Faces Project and World Without Exploitation), and our signature program, The Stories We Tell – an immersive, two-day testimonial writing workshop for survivors of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and trafficking – we seek to change minds, hearts, and public policies through the power of personal testimony.

We believe that stories aren’t just found. They are cultivated. Those who choose to share them need to be encouraged, listened to, developed, and supported if their voices are to have an enduring effect on public attitudes and policies. The well-told story creates the space for the world to better understand the damage gender-based violence does to victims, families and communities. It breaks through partisan barriers in a way that statistics alone cannot. But our stories, strategically and mindfully told, do something more: They call the world not just to compassion, but social action. And action is what The Voices and Faces Project is all about.

The Voices and Faces Project has been named one of America’s Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America for 10 years running. We are a founding partner of World Without Exploitation, launched in 2016 through our alliance with NOW-NYS, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, and Sanctuary for Families. We are also co-founders, with Victim Rights Law Center, of CounterQuo – a national coalition created to challenge and change media responses to gender-based violence – and the creators of the award-winning, survivor story-informed Ugly Truth anti-trafficking campaign. The Voices and Faces Project has been a registered 501c3 organization since 2006.

Inclusion isn’t just a buzzword.It’s a way of being.

Gender-based violence is non-discriminatory. Wherever you are, and whoever you are, you are vulnerable to it, particularly if you are a woman or girl. And while each of us, regardless of our level of social or economic privilege, is a potential victim of gender-based violence, people from communities that have been historically denied basic civil or human rights are especially vulnerable to such violence. What’s more, victims from these highly vulnerable communities are often denied a basic level of care and support in the wake of experiencing violence. The Voices and Faces Project is always imagining —and creating — new ways and places to support members of marginalized communities in bringing their stories forward.