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| Last Girl Award winners Rana Abdelhamid, Melissa Berton, Mykola Kubela, Catherine Wilson, and Anne K. Ream alongside Apne Aap founder Ruchira Gupta, actress emcee Sway Bhatia, and the award presenters. |
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What does it mean to put the Last Girl First?
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Mahatma Gandhi believed that in making any public decision, we should think deeply about how it affects the “last person” in society, centering those who are most vulnerable in all that we do. This is a vision that is deeply aligned with The Voices and Faces Project’s global testimonial writing program for survivors of human rights violations.
It’s also the vision that inspired Apne Aap Women Worldwide to create The Last Girl Awards, in recognition of global changemakers whose work uplifts the most vulnerable among us: girls who are being bought and sold.
The 7th Annual Last Girl Awards, hosted at NYC’s Asia Society on September 30th, honored Malikah founder Rana Abdelhamid, Academy Award-winning film producer Melissa Berton, Save Ukraine founder Mykola Kubela, Stop Trafficking US founder Catherine Wilson, and The Voices and Faces Project’s own Anne K. Ream.
Moderated by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ruchira Gupta, emceed by actress Sway Bhatia, and featuring a performance by dancer Parul Shah, the night was hosted by Gloria Steinem.
In accepting The Last Girl Award, Anne K. Ream noted:
❝We are each of us in this room tonight because of a story…because someone had the courage to speak about a painful personal event in a way that called us to political action. I believe that the survivors of injustice who choose to share their stories do not do so because it is healing - though it can be - but because it is necessary in a world that so often disappears narratives of grief, trauma, and loss. Creating a space for these voices to emerge,and challenging a world that so often tries to erase them, is what The Voices and Faces Project is all about.”
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| Congratulations to Anne, Rana, Melissa, Mykola, and Catherine for your commitment to putting the last among us first. We cannot wait to see what you do next. |
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The Voices and Faces Project is standing with our allies at Justice For Migrant Women (J4MW), and speaking out on Capitol Hill.
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| Justice for Migrant Women founder Monica Ramirez, Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream, and a collective of gender justice and labor rights leaders in Washington, DC.
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During a time in which working Latinas are paid as little as 46 cents to the dollar, essential workers are treated as anything but essential, and migrant persons are being vilified, it's more important than ever that we demand better. This is exactly what the team at Justice for Migrant Women — a longstanding Voices and Faces Project partner — did in September, during a congressional event in which J4MW founder Monica Ramirez, Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream, and US Congresswoman Delia Ramirez spoke alongside an extraordinary collective of migrant and essential workers who are leading the fight for a more just, equitable world. Special thanks to the Women's Funding Network for being a key force behind our September effort on the Hill. Onward to change!
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Thank you, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, for hosting the Wellbeing Summit 2023.
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| Annalisa V. Enrile, Jamia Jowers, Jamia Wilson, Rachel Foster, and Anne K. Ream at the 2023 Wellbeing Summit for Social Change in Rhinebeck, NY.
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This fall, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies hosted its first-ever Wellbeing Summit —
a gathering at the intersection of wellbeing and social change. A space to explore ways that social justice movements can foster healthy and sustainable self care practices while thinking critically about the role that healing practitioners can play in creating change, the 2023 summit was moving, memorable, and attended by a community of Voices and Faces Project allies and new friends committed to creating a more just, kind, sustainable world.
Special thanks to Omega Institute's Jamia Wilson for being ground zero for The Voices and Faces Project's participation in the summit. See you at the next gathering!
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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STORY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE:
Jewish Women International’s National Alliance Webinar
presented by The Voices and Faces Project
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
3p-4:30p EST
VIRTUAL
Register here
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BREAKING FREE:
A writing and storytelling workshop
for survivors of religious trauma and purity culture
Presented in partnership with Linda Kay Klein
and Break Free Together
Q1, 2024 (date to be announced)
Simmons Center for Global Chicago
CHICAGO, IL
for details email janet@voicesandfaces.org
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LIVED THROUGH THIS:
A theatrical adaptation of the book by Anne K. Ream
Presented in partnership with Freekind
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
The Wells Theatre,
NORFOLK, VA
— and —
Thursday, February 15, 2024
The Perkinson Center,
RICHMOND, VA
Find out more
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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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