The Voices And Faces Project

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, our survivor story archives (housed at The Voices and Faces Project and World Without Exploitation), and our signature program, The Stories We Tell – an immersive, two-day testimonial writing workshop for survivors of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and trafficking – we seek to change minds, hearts, and public policies through the power of personal testimony. We believe that stories aren’t just found. They are cultivated. Those who choose to share them need to be encouraged, listened to, developed, and supported if their voices are to have an enduring effect on public attitudes and policies. The well-told story creates the space for the world to better understand the damage gender-based violence does to victims, families and communities. It breaks through partisan barriers in a way that statistics alone cannot. But our stories, strategically and mindfully told, do something more: They call the world not just to compassion, but social action. And action is what The Voices and Faces Project is all about. The Voices and Faces Project has been named one of America’s Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America for 10 years running. We are a founding partner of World Without Exploitation, launched in 2016 through our alliance with NOW-NYS, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, and Sanctuary for Families. We are also co-founders, with Victim Rights Law Center, of CounterQuo – a national coalition created to challenge and change media responses to gender-based violence – and the creators of the award-winning, survivor story-informed Ugly Truth anti-trafficking campaign. The Voices and Faces Project has been a registered 501c3 organization since 2006.