VOICES is a community-based nonprofit organization in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1999, our mission is to mentor low-income youth to tell their personal, family, neighborhood, tribal, and community stories so they can strengthen their cognitive, artistic, emotional, leadership, and higher education skills. Youth who are creative, resilient, educated and active citizens are youth who benefit themselves, their families and our community now and in the future.
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 | 110° After School Magazine Project Tucson through the eyes of its low-income youth. Our award-winning after school magazine program. |
 | Looking Forward/Looking Back Native American youth look forward & back with digital stories. |
 | WW2 Stories Tucson teens tell the stories of Tucson’s vets. |
 | South Park Seniors and youth come together to tell their neighborhood stories through photos. |
News
110°: Tucson’s Youth Tell Tucson’s Stories Issue 8 Release Party
Come join VOICES as we celebrate the release of the eighth issue of 110°!
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Join VOICES and City High School for Illuminate!
VOICES and City High School will be hosting their first-year collaborative visual arts show at Arts Incubator Gallery from May 10th to the 11th. Check it out!
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VOICES Announces New Living Stories Project: “Downtown Geographical Expeditions”
Join veteran VOICES artists Kimi Eisele and Josh Schachter on two, day-long journeys to explore, document, discuss, re-map, and re-imagine Downtown Tucson through writing, photography, and movement (yes, dance!).
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Youth Spotlight
This year, Voices, Inc. is introducing a new summer training program! Voices Freelance Program is a six-week journalism training sessions for young adults from ages 14-21, preparing youth to create their own stories and work on their own terms!
How We Meet Our Community Needs
College degrees help break the cycle of poverty
According to Columbia University’s National Center for Children in Poverty, 55% of children who are low-income have parents with a high-school degree but no college-level education. In the last two decades, the percent of children in low-income families increased from 36% to 44% if parents had a high school degree, but no college. (“Parents’ Low Education Leads to Low Income, Despite Full-Time Employment.” Fact Sheet, National Center for Children in Poverty. November, 2005.)
Voices of the People
We showcase VOICES work that tells the stories of our community’s past and present. Since 1998, these amazing local stories have been the products of many programs we have run in order to facilitate positive youth development through in-depth mentoring in the documentary and media arts.
A Borrowed Home
My name is Ruwaida Alansary, but people call me Roxy. I was born in Saudi Arabia in 1988 and my parents divorced in 1995. My father remarried in 1996 and moved my stepmother and me to the United States in January 2001 in search of education and a chance at a relationship with our ailing grandmother.
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The Hardest Thing in War
“In the fighting in the Pacific, like at night when we were in the jungle, it was so dark you couldn’t see anything, from here to you. So the Japanese would sneak right up and stab you in the back right in your own foxhole…”
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Our New Photography DirectorPulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Krista Niles joined the staff of Voices, Inc., after 14 years in daily photojournalism. She has traveled the country extensively, working for The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Lincoln Journal-Star, The San Antonio Express-News and several other media organizations.
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