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Community Voice Project

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  • SOC Freedom Summer Digital Storytelling

    Digital Storytelling

    Help document stories from "Freedom Summer" of 1964. In collaboration with Smithsonian's Museum of American History, Professor Nina Shapiro-Perl's Community Documentary students will learn digital storytelling by capturing experiences of civil right activists - then and now.

  • DC Stories
  • In Virginia, students fanned out exploring community, race and identity in this rapidly changing area.
  • Maryland Stories

The project:

The Community Voice Project of the American University School of Communication collaborates with the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology to document the voices and empower the people and communities of Greater Washington. Read more

Course Descriptions 

Unseen Unheard

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For the past four years teams of Film and Anthropology students spread out across Washington seeking untold stories... and discovering the remarkable.

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DC Intersections

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Each semester, American University graduate students fan out across the D.C. Metro Area, exploring the myriad ways in which community, race and identity are defined in this rapidly changing area. 

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Digital Storytelling

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Film and anthropology students collaborate with community members from the Southeast Washington neighborhood of Anacostia to produce brief, self-driven narratives that reveal much about culture and personal experience.

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