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| Kali Casab (far left) and Anne K. Ream (far right) of The Voices and Faces Project with Kemery Bloom of GRIT (center left) and Nancy Stevenson of the Adlai Stevenson Center On Democracy (center right) at the opening of Simmons Center for Global Chicago. |
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Celebrating the opening of Simmons Center for Global Chicago, our new Voices and Faces Project home. |
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Our mission at The Voices and Faces Project — which in the coming months will be rebranded, reimagined and expanded as Center for Story & Witness — is to create a global community in which those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence and other human rights violations have the tools that they need to use their personal narratives to create lasting political change.
All of which makes Simmons Center for Global Chicago — a Chicago-based collective and office space connecting globally active nonprofits, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and business community partners — the ideal home for The Voices and Faces Project.
On September 19th our Voices and Faces Project team joined Valerie Jarrett, CEO of the Obama Foundation, Adele Simmons, the center's namesake, Steve Bynum of WorldView, and a long list of community leaders, opinion shapers, and non-profit leaders to celebrate Simmons Center's official launch.
A huge thank you to Adele, Joan K. Sherman and April Donnellan for making your dream a dream that includes The Voices and Faces Project's global storytelling project. Onward to great things together!
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Memoirists Brenda Myers-Powell, Hannah Sward and author and Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream at Printers Row LitFest 2022.
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On September 10th, at Printers Row Lit Fest 2022 — one of the country's largest and longest-standing books and ideas gatherings, hosted in Chicago — Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream moderated a conversation with memoirists Hannah Sward and Brenda Myers-Powell, the authors of "Strip," and "Leaving Breezy Street," two books that make clear that commercial sexual exploitation is an issue that is deeply connected to racism, inequality, and economic injustice. In Anne's words, “What moves me so deeply about Brenda and Hannah is how they have turned the pain of surviving the sex trade into power — a power they are using to provide a sense of solidarity to other women, a power that demands that a world that chooses 'not to see' human trafficking finally open its eyes. These women are the very definition of fierce."
Find out more about Brenda Myers-Powell and Hannah Sward.
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Meet The Voices and Faces Project’s newest for-profit partner, Simply Earth.
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The Voices and Faces Project is grateful to announce our newest partnership with Simply Earth, an essential oil company dedicated to the fight against human trafficking. Simply Earth donates 13% of its profits to organizations that are on the front lines of fighting commercial sexual exploitaton. In 2023 they are gifting essential oils to all of our The Stories We Tell writing workshop participants, through our Voices and Faces Project workshop wellness kits. Thank you, Simply Earth, for standing beside us in the fight to end exploitation and create a more just and equitable world. We appreciate you!
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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THE WORLD WITHOUT EXPLOITATION NATIONAL CONVENING:
A gathering of anti-trafficking movement leaders
November 30 – December 1, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC
THE STORIES WE TELL:
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of
gender based violence
Q1, 2023
Sojourner Peace Center
MILWAUKEE, WI
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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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