"We don’t often experience and engage with stories and human rights issues through the lens of people who actually lived through them. Normally it’s through the lens of a scholar, activist, or pundit. All of those things have their value, but we wanted to lift up the authority of the perspectives of people who were going through it."
-Quote from mimi lok, executive director of Voices of Witness, in The Power of Oral History: Personal Narratives Take Us Deep Into the Human Rights Stories Hidden Behind the Headlines
