Pilot Project Participants

Voice of Witness and Facing History and Ourselves have partnered to bring dynamic, participatory humanities-based cirricula to seven Bay Area high schools. With the incredible skill and effort of the following nine teachers, we hope to create an oral history curriculum  that can be used across the country in years to come. Their work is invaluable.


Kyle Beckham: Downtown High School, San Francisco


Trevor Gardner: Envision Academy of Arts and Technology, Oakland


Katherine Geers: Mission San Jose High School, Fremont


Eileen Kane: Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco


Katie Kuszmar: Notre Dame San Jose High School, San Jose


Jennifer McEnany: Oceana High School, Pacifica


Jennifer Moore: Mission San Jose High School, Fremont


Bill Pratt: Berkeley High School, Berkeley

Karen Lichtenberg Scher: Oceana High School, Pacifica

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.