Development Position Available

Posted on February 27, 2010 |

Voice of Witness is looking for a Development and Communications Associate to help us expand our fundraising and outreach capacities. If you believe strongly in our mission to illuminate human rights crises through oral history, and would like to help us grow as an organization, please consider joining us in our work.

Education Discount for En Las Sombras de Estados Unidos

Posted on February 5, 2010 |

We’re delighted to offer our 50% discount on class sets of English and Spanish editions of Underground America to colleges, schools and educational organizations. Educators, we hope that you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to bring these remarkable stories to your students.

Voice of Witness books have been taught in colleges and schools throughout the world, and have been adopted as key resources by national advocacy groups, and their member affiliates, including the ENOUGH project, STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition. We are currently working with the non-profit Facing History to develop teaching strategies, resources and lesson plans based on the book.

To order your class set, or request an exam copy, please contact Adam Krefman at adam@mcsweeneys.net

Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.