This document discusses the Finding Voice project, which uses community-based storytelling to create social change. The project works with students from over 30 countries at Catalina Magnet High School in Tucson, Arizona to document their personal stories and experiences with issues like war, displacement, and immigration. Students' stories are shared through exhibitions, publications, theatre, and engagements with policymakers to raise awareness of important issues. The project aims to give voice to marginalized groups and counter stereotypes by sharing authentic, legitimate, and unexpected narratives.

1. Creating Social Change Through
Community-Based Storytelling
Josh Schachter
joshsch@cox.net
www.joshphotos.com / www.findingvoiceproject.org

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11. Voices Inc:
Community Stories Past & Present

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Catalina Magnet
High School
Tucson, AZ

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Student Population
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burundi, Croatia,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, El
Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia,
Gabon, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq,
Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kuwait, Liberia, Mexico,
Nepal, Republic of the Marshall Islands,
Rwanda, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia,
Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Yemen, Vietnam
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21. Raping of women and children
Taking the babies from their mothers’ womb
I imagine when the rebel wanted to shoot at me
Suddenly I was saved by a boy, Allieu,
Who was shot in his foot
At this time it is like you hold your own life in your hands
Seeing your own death hunting you
Sometimes I prayed “O God take my life”
Let me rest instead of living in this unjust world…..
- Aminata, Catalina High School Student from Liberia

24. Community Forums Media Interventions
Publications
Theatre

25. Congressional Briefing
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Exhibitions
Engaging Policymakers

26. Oguta, Nigeria
SNAP

34. Facing the Past, Present & Future:
Connecting Youth & Elders
on the
San Carlos Apache Reservation

38. The single story creates a stereotype
and the problem with stereotypes
is not that they are untrue, but that
they are incomplete. They make
one story become the only story.
…a single story robs people of
their dignity.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian Author

39. VISION
AUTHENTIC
LEGITIMATE
UNEXPECTED
EMOTIONAL
STORIES
Storytelling & Social Change

40. Josh Schachter
joshsch@cox.net
www.joshphotos.com
www.findingvoiceproject.org