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| Chantale Zuzi, the founder of Refugee Can Be and an alumnae of our Voices and Faces Project testimonial writing workshop for refugee girls in Nairobi, Kenya.
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What The Voices and Faces Project’s testimonial writing workshop did for our community of refugee girls was different than anything anyone had ever done for us. No longer would we stand by and let what we had experienced define who we are. Together, our individual voices became a roar.”
— Chantale Zuzi
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The stories we tell about ourselves and the communities we grow up in are powerful. No one understands this better than Chantale Zuzi, a leader in the refugee rights movement and the founder of Refugee Can Be, a non-profit organization that envisions and is working to create a world in which every refugee girl is a leader in her own right.
An alumnae of The Voices and Faces Project's testimonial writing workshop for refugee girls in Nairobi, Kenya, Chantale is using her powerful voice, face and story to create a more just and free world for refugee girls. Get to know Refugee Can Be, and watch Chantale's recently released TED talk and prepare to be inspired. And Chantale? We cannot wait to see what you do next!
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The Voices and Faces Project invites survivors and witnesses of gender-based violence to apply for "The Stories We Tell," a testimonial writing workshop on November 16-17 in Chicago.
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| Joua Lang, a graduate of our Stories We Tell workshop at Mt. Mary College.
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Developed to help those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence use their voices, faces, and stories to call the public to greater compassion and — more importantly — social action, The Voices and Faces Project's Stories We Tell testimonial writing program is supporting a new generation of activists seeking to use story to create social change. We're not just training writers. We're creating a global community.
During this immersive, two-day writing workshop, a cohort of emerging and established artists, writers, activists, and survivors come together to read and discuss culture-changing literature from across history and various social justice movements…take part in a series of innovative, real-time writing exercises…and share creative work in moderated, expert-led workshopping sessions.
Our trauma-informed writing program was co-created by novelist R. Clifton Spargo, a lecturer in creative writing at Yale University and graduate of the acclaimed Iowa Writers' Workshop, and activist Anne K. Ream, the founder of The Voices and Faces Project and author of Lived Through This, her memoir of a global journey spent listening to survivors of gender-based violence.
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THE STORIES WE TELL:
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence
November 16-17, 2024
Simmons Center for Global Chicago
CHICAGO, IL
Presented in partnership with Brabson Foundation
Applications close October 18th.
You've got questions?
We've got answers.
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We want a Free Future. Thank you, Ford Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and The Meteor for supporting us in getting there.
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| Coming together for Free Future 2024 at Ford Foundation, l to r: Ginny Suss, Jamia Wilson, Monica Ramirez, Jimmie Briggs and Anne K. Ream
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In the US, femicide is up by almost 25 percent over the last 9 years. Harassment and violence have worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic. And around the world, a growing anti-rights movement threatens the legal and political gains gender-based violence survivors and their allies have made over the last decade. Free Future, a collaboration between the Ford Foundation, The Meteor, and Skoll Foundation, is dedicated to changing that.
On September 17th, Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream traveled to NYC to take part in Free Future 2024, a day long summit attended by an inspiring community of global gender justice leaders. "Being in community with allies who work on these issues every day is energizing," notes Anne. "Free Future 2024 was a reminder that as difficult as the work to end gender-based violence can be, we are never doing it alone. That realization is such a gift."
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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THE STORIES WE TELL:
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence
November 16 – 17, 2024
Simmons Center for Global Chicago
CHICAGO, IL
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THE STORIES WE TELL :
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence
Q1, 2025 (date TBA)
University of California — Riverside
RIVERSIDE, CA
Presented in partnership with Brabson Family Foundation
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BREAKING FREE:
A testimonial writing workshop for survivors of religious trauma
Q1, 2025 (date TBA)
Location TBA
Presented in partnership with Break Free Together
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Our stories are our power.
At The Voices and Faces Project we’re using them to create change. |
Our mission at The Voices and Faces Project (which will soon be rebranded and expanded as Center for Story & Witness) is to cultivate and share stories that bear witness to gender-based violence and other human rights injustices in order to challenge and change minds, hearts, and public policies. Through our narrative advocacy trainings, performances, publications, and testimonial writing workshops, we're supporting a new generation of witnesses, writers, artists, and activists to use their stories to create social change. We are a registered 501c3 organization and have been named one of America's Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America.
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