We are honored to recognize Fanny García and her oral history work with the 2026 Pogue Award!
🎙 Since 1979, OHMAR has recognized and promoted high standards in the field of oral history through the Pogue Award, an annual award for outstanding and continuing contributions to oral history.
🎧 Fanny García is the Founder & CEO of Narratives in Practice, LLC, a trauma-informed and ethical storytelling consulting firm helping people capture stories that create meaning and change. García’s path to oral history began through her grassroots activism as a social worker, where she supported survivors of sexual assault and people living with HIV/AIDS. During this time, she wrote "Portrait of Ten Women," a play based on oral histories with Latinas living with HIV/AIDS. Since 2019, García has led "Separated: Stories of Injustice and Solidarity," an oral history project documenting the experiences of families affected by the Trump Administration's Zero Tolerance immigration policy.
🎤 She approaches her work using applied oral history methods, ensuring that projects directly benefit the communities who share their stories by centering advocacy for policy change and socioeconomic support efforts into the project blueprints. Her work has been recognized with the Judge Jack B. Weinstein Award for Oral History (2017), the Columbia University OHMA Oral History Teaching and Social Justice Award (2018), the Oral History Association Emerging Crisis Award (2019), and an OHA and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2022). García is a graduate of UCLA and Columbia University. She is the Editorial Program Manager at Voice of Witness and currently serves on the council for the Oral History Association.
🗓 Join us at 12:15pm on May 7 in Alexandria, VA, to hear Fanny discuss her oral history work!
Looking for ways to incorporate more perspectives into your oral history project? Join Shilpi Malinowski's workshop on May 8 to learn how she tells stories from multiple viewpoints.
We're excited to have Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis open our conference on May 7 in Alexandria, VA! Visit our website for more details and registration.
Dr. Clark-Lewis is the retired Director of Public History at Howard, and recently received a PhD Honoris Causa from Howard University. The former Director of Graduate Studies was elected twice as the National President of the Association of Black Women Historians. Dr. Clark-Lewis also served on the Board of the Organization of American Historians, the National Council on Public History, and is one of the founders of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Association. She was the recipient of OHMAR’s Forrest Pogue Award in 2000.
Going all the way to our Annual Conference in 1982 for this #throwbackthursday. Looking forward to seeing everyone in NYC in a few weeks!
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Registration is open for our 2017 Annual Conference in NYC! Head to oralhistoryandthecity.org to register and to find out more.
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Martha Ross helped found OHMAR and was an accomplished oral historian and educator. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Martha Ross Center for Oral History is named after her as is the OHMAR Martha Ross Memorial Prize.
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We're excited to announce that Mary Marshall Clark will be awarded the 2017 Pogue Award at our annual conference on April 28-29 in NYC. Mary Marshall is the Director of the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and Co-Director of @ohmacolumbia .
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