Voice of Witness

Posted on December 1, 2011

This has been an incredible year for Voice of Witness, and we couldn’t have done it without you. From all of us– thank you. We’re honored to have you as a supporter, reader, audience member, and ally. It is our pleasure to share our success with you, and we hope that you’ll continue to support us by making a year-end donation to Voice of Witness today.

Click here to make a year end gift, or read on to learn what a significant impact your support has made on our work.

This year, your support empowered us to:

- Publish three new titles. In 2011, we published a record three new books telling the stories of survivors of human rights crises in Burma, post-9/11 America, and inside U.S. women’s prisons. These stories were told to us with courage, compassion, and sometimes at great risk. From Kyaw Zwar, a political prisoner in Burma, to Rana Sodhi, who lost two brothers to hate crimes following 9/11, your support has helped amplify unheard voices around the world.

- Quadruple our readings and special events throughout the U.S. With your help, we reached more people with public programming and book events than ever before. In just twelve months, we brought our editors, narrators and staff to more than fifty community centers, bookstores, classrooms and more.

- Expand a thriving education program. This year, our education program directly supported more than sixty teachers and 1,500 high school and college students with workshops, in-school visits, curricula and more. We couldn’t be more thrilled to see this crucial extension of our work continue to grow, and look forward to sharing more with you in 2012.

All of this was made possible with your generous support. We’re honored to have you on the Voice of Witness team and we hope you’ll take a moment to renew your support for our work today.

From all of us at Voice of Witness– thank you! We could not have come this far without you.

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.

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Excerpts and audiovisual clips from past and current book projects.