The Texas After Violence Project attempts to engage each volunteer, intern, and staff member in constant, ongoing training as much as possible. Many of these exchanges take place at our office, as we learn from each other or invite guests; many of these exchanges take place with students, staff, and faculty from high schools, colleges, and universities in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, New Mexico, and Massachusetts; and many of these exchanges take place in the community -- thus far mostly in Austin, but two exchanges took place in London, England, and Abuja, Nigeria!
A growing number of places in which we have listed to people's stories include Amarillo, Austin, Brownsville, Conroe, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, Fort Worth, Houston, Huntsville, San Antonio, Waco, rural North/Central Texas, rural East Texas, & New Mexico.
Past events, starting with the most recent
On Friday, August 5, 2011, Olga Castro, intern with the Texas After Violence Project through the Rapoport Service Scholar program at the University of Texas at Austin, and Virginia Raymond, Texas After Violence Project director, made a presentation to the Texas Civil Rights Project staff retreat at El Buen Samaritano in South Austin.
On June 29, 2011, staff of the Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) of the University of Texas Libraries came to our office for a training and discussion on preparing videos and transcripts of interviews for online posting at the HRDI. We're very grateful to Katie Thornton; Anna J. Lamphear, MSIS, an Audiovisual Digitization Librarian works in Preservation and Digitization Services at the UT Libraries; and T-Kay Sangwand, MLIS, is the one and only Human Rights Archivist at the UT Libraries and our best friend at HRDI. The training covered some of the fine points of digital captures of MiniDV tapes and how to edit them specifically for posting on HRDI. Participants in addition to Anna Lamphear, and T-Kay Sangwand, Katie Thornton, included Olga Castro, Maurice Chammah, Kalli Henderson, Celeste Henery, Walter Long, Rebecca Lorins, Mary O'Grady, Erin Park-Markert, and Virginia Raymond. See photographs on our blog.
At the International Institute for Restorative Practices 14th World Conference, in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 16, Walter C. Long presented with Susannah Sheffer, Project Director and Staff Writer of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights. Walter's and Susannah's talk was entitled "How Should Communities Respond to Those Harmed by the Death Penalty?"
Texas After Violence Project founder Walter C. Long presented at the Third National Conference on Restorative Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 8, 2011, 2:45 PM. His address,"Laying a Foundation for Social Change with Oral History" was part of themed panel on foundations for justice and social Change. Walter's co-panelists were Professor P.J. Verrecchia of York College in Pennsylvania and Professor Kimberly Cook of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, who served as moderator.
allgo: a statewide queer people of color organization organized a community forum on violence on April 29, 2011, in response to the killings of Norma and María Hurtado. The Texas After Violence Project participated as a community partner of allgo, represented by Virginia Raymond.
Sustenance! Saturday, April 24, 2011, at the law office of Greenstein & Kolker. A small gathering among friends to talk about the work of our project. Thank you to Rebecca Lorins, Charlotte McCann, Jane Peddicord, Tom Kolker and Malcolm Greenstein.
April appreciation party - Sunday, April 10, 4 -7 p.m. - April --- deep spring --- is a fine time to say thank you. We held a party to let our volunteers, interns, friends, and supporters how much we appreciate you.
“Community Uses of Oral History,” Friday, April 8, 2011, Presentation by Virginia Raymond, Invited by Professor Emilio Zamora for HIS 350L, Creating and Interpreting Oral Narratives, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
International CURE conference Celeste Henery and Gabriel Daniel Solis attended this gathering in Abuja, Nigeria, in February. Read an excerpt from Dr. Henery's presentation.
Trainings in Spring 2011 took place on Wednesday evenings at the University of Texas at Austin campus and on Friday afternoons at the Texas After Violence Project office. Again, we thank Professor Sue Heinzelman and Ms. Nancy Ewert at the Center for Women and Gender Studies (CWGS) for securing the training location for us.
December appreciation party for volunteers, interns, staff, consultants, and friends of the project, took place at the home of Thomas Kolker and Virginia Raymond.
Oral History Society of London, November 20, 2011. Kimberly Ambrosini-Bacon spoke about the work of the Texas After Violence Project of the "Study Day" of the Oral History Society, an event that took place at the Museum of London. Read Kim's reflections.
In the fall of 2010, the Texas After Violence Project conducted two trainings series in Austin. The series began on Thursday, September 23 and ran through Friday, November 12. Thursday evening trainings took place from 6 - 8:00 p.m. at the University of Texas at Austin campus, in the lovely Benedict Hall, thanks to Nancy Ewert at the Center for Women and Gender Studies (CWGS), as well as Professor Sue Heinzelman, Director of CWGS and well as Matthew McKibben and Ixchel Rosal at the Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC). Friday afternoon trainings took place from 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. at the Texas After Violence Project office. We learned a great deal with and from the stellar participants in both sessions.
"Speaking Truth to Power Complicated: When (Some) Disempowered People Speak about (Other) Disempowered People"
Presentation by Virginia Raymond at the American Folklore Society annual conference
Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday, October 16, 2010
The theme of this year's conference was "Lay and Expert Knowledge." Virginia Raymond spoke as part of a panel entitled "Ethics and the Reconstructed Self in the Digital Age," chaired by Suzy Seriff and in which Martha Norkunas and Antony Cherian also participated. Martha Norkunas (Middle Tennessee State University) presented a paper called "Racial Consciousness and the Reconstructed Self: Ethical Implications." Suzanne Seriff (University of Texas), spoke on "Blogs, Wikis, Mashups and Folksonomies: Creating Interactive Exhibits in the Digital Age." Antony Cherian (University of Texas) addressed "The Ethics of Consent in the Digital Age."
Yard sale in Hyde Park! October 1, 2010. Thank you so much to Janie Montemayor, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Neil Foley, Angela Hinz, Susanne Mason, Jorge Antonio Renaud, and South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), for their hard work. SAALT assisted us as part of "Be the Change" day, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's direction to "Be the change you wish to see in the world." We are so grateful.
The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) of the University of Texas Libraries and the Texas After Violence Project hosted a reception on September 14, 2010, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in the Rare Books Room of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas Libraries, Sid Richardson Hall, near the intersection of Clyde Littlefield Drive and Red River Street. The Benson is on the eastern part of the UT Austin campus, building #13 in the orange section of this map. Mr.Jorge Antonio Renaud served as our Master of Ceremonies. Alexa Torres Skillicorn and Lauren Groves provided the music. T-Kay Sangwand of HRDI, and Virginia Raymond, Kim Bacon, and Maurice Chammah of the Texas After Violence Project introduced our respective projects. We thank Margo Gutiérrez, Christian Kelleher, and the entire Benson staff for graciously allowing us to use their beautiful space, and T-Kay Sangwand, Human Rights Archivist for the U.T. Libraries for co-hosting this event. Thanks also to Sam Archer, Antony Cherian, Elana Estrin, Tom Kolker, Janie Montemayor, Jane Peddicord, and Christina Wright.
Kim Bacon presented at the Diversity Task Force of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault on July 23, 2010.
Summer training for new interns and volunteers, June 11 - July 16, 2010
June 11 - Introduction: violence, racism, region, religion, and the death penalty in Texas history
June 18 - Oral history I: Why and how
June 25 - Ethics in oral history, project code of conduct, expectations, procedures
No training on July 2
July 9 - Oral history II: Videography
July 16 - Grieving and self care with
Walter Long, founder of the Texas After Violence Project, spoke at the Public Affairs Forum of the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Austin on Sunday, May 30, 2010, at 11:30.
A visit with Rob and Susan Corcoran
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 2 – 4 p.m.
Texas After Violence Project office
Participants in addition to Rob Corcoran: Kim Bacon, Eric Bowles, Claudia Carrett-Beltrán, Mia Carter, Susan Corcoran, Meghan Currey, Celeste Henery, J. J. Lara, Walter Long, Charlotte McCann, Jennifer Morris, Virginia Raymond, Larry Schooler, Pauline Strong, Carl Webb
A big thank you to our San Antonio team!
Friday, April 30 2010, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Thanks to "a small group of dedicated people," the Texas After Violence Project began to work in and from San Antonio tis spring. Kim Bacon, Walter Long, and Virginia Raymond honored these friends at a lunch on April 30. We appreciate very much the efforts Megan Brodie, Rosemarie Caldwell, and Professor Roger Barnes, all of the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW), and poet Rachel Jennings for providing shelter when we needed to stay overnight. We still owe a huge debt of gratitude to Sociology Professor and Department Chair Janet Armitage and her students at St. Mary's University.
Human Rights Documentation: Violence at Home, part of a series, Alzando La Voz/Raising Our Voice. This first of four sessions in April on "Human Rights in the Heart of Texas."
Sponsor: The office of Community Engagement of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, University of Texas at Austin, especially Professor Shannon Speed, Director of Community Engagement; Professor Eric Tang; and Gabe Solis,
Community Engagement Center, 1009 East 11th Street, Austin, Texas, 78702
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Organizer: Kim Bacon
Presenters: Martha P. Cotera is a local activist, and nationally recognized historian. J.J. Lara works with the Texas Advocacy Project and has been involved in the movement against gender violence for ten years. He spoke to issues of access to justice for LGBTQ victims of crime.
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Kim Bacon is the assistant director of the Texas After Violence Project. Kim spoke about the role of oral history in documenting human rights violations with respect to the death penalty in Texas. Meghan Currey is the UT Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) Spring 2010 liaison to the Texas After Violence Project. Meghan explained how human rights violations are being documented and made publicly accessible using Glifos social media software. Jennifer Morris moderated the panel. She is a Master's student in the Women's and Gender Studies program at UT Austin. She joined the Texas After Violence Project in January 2010.
In-house training on self care: Preventing and recognizing secondary trauma or "burnout"
Training for New Volunteers and Interns
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, March 26, 2010, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Presenter: Kim Bacon
Visit from United World College (UWC) students. These young people, who are studying at the Montezuma, New Mexico campus of UWC, come from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Ethiopia, Senegal, Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, Iran, Israel, Portugal and, from the U.S., West Virginia and Kansas. Our friend and former intern, Papa Diallo introduced us to UWC teacher Cheikh Badiane last year and we had a wonderful time hosting the students for a day and learning from them. They honored us with their visit and we're very proud that they are interested in our work. Please see our blog entry on the visit.
Texas After Violence Project office
March 16 & 17, 2010
Presenter from the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond
Visit and presentation to Dr. Melissa Forbis's Seminar in Civic Research and the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Program in Poverty, Social Justice, and Human Capabilities
Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University, Houston, Texas
March 15, 2010
Presenter from the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond
Service Learning: A roundtable discussion on community engagement
A special event in anticipation of the Ethnic &Third World Literature Group’s 2010 Sequels Conference, April 8-9
Organizer and sponsor: Ethnic & Third World Literature Concentration (e3w), UT Austin
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Atwood Library, Calhoun Hall, University of Texas at Austin
Presenters from the University of Texas at Austin: Alice Batt, Department of Rhetoric & Writing and Sean McCarthy, English Department (College of Liberal Arts); Marion Rocco and Steven Smith, Bridging Disciplines Program (Undergraduate College); Vandana Nakka Peterson, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (School of Law); and Dr. Lanece Aggrey, Director, Academic Service Learning, Volunteer and Service Learning Center, Community Engagement Center, UT Austin
Presenter from the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond
See Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) Updates, 5 April 2010, "Questions of Digital Witnessing, Community Engagement and Human Rights," by Lydia French
In-house screening and facilitated discussion,Cruel and Unusual, a documentary film by Janet Baus, Dan Hunt, and Reid Williams, that shows the lives of transgender people who spend time locked up -- whether in county jails, state prisons, or both.
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, March 6, 2010 - Light refreshments at 1:30; film at 2:00 p.m., and discussion afterwards until 4:00 p.m.
Guest presenter: Professor Matt Richardson
Digital Witnessing: A Record of Human Rights and Wrongs
A special event in anticipation of the Ethnic &Third World Literature Group’s 2010 Sequels Conference on April 8th & 9th
The Rare Books Room of the Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Presenters: T-Kay Sangwand, Human Rights Archivist with Nicholas Rejack, Free Burma Rangers Archive and Virginia Raymond, Texas After Violence Project
Materials: Presentation outline, Ethical Responsibilities to Actors
See Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) Updates, 5 April 2010, "Questions of Digital Witnessing, Community Engagement and Human Rights," by Lydia French
Photographs of the Digital Witnessing event, courtesy of the UT Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) at its "flickr" page.
Human Rights in Practice
Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP), Undergraduate College & the Bernard and Audré Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice, School of Law
Charles I. Francis Auditorium, TNH 2.114, UT School of Law
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Presenters: Alice Batts, Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, UT-Austin; Karen Engle, Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, UT; Ariel Dulitzky, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Clinic, UT School of Law; Lisa Graybill, Legal Director, Texas ACLU; Kristin Houlé, Executive Director, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; Caroline Keating-Guerra, Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition; Virginia Raymond, Texas After Violence Project
In house training: Oral History II, Videography
Training for New Volunteers and Interns
Friday, February 26, 2010, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Texas After Violence Project office
Presenter: Kim Bacon
Human Rights in the Heart of Texas, Abriendo Brecha VII: Activist Scholar Conference University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Presenters: Professor Shannon Speed, Department of Anthropology and Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, UT Austin; Gabriel Solis, Center for Mexican American Studies and Community Engagement Center, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, UT Austin; Virginia Raymond, Texas After Violence Project; and Hector Hernández and Emily Timm, Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral (PDL)
Bridging community & academia in the struggle to end violence against Latin@s, Abriendo Brecha VII: Activist Scholar Conference, University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, February 19, 2010
Presenters: Professor Roberta Villalon, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. Johns University; Laura Zarate, Arte Sana; and Virginia Raymond, Texas After Violence Project
In-house training: Capital punishment in Texas - from arrest through trial, appeals, and habeas proceedings
Training for New Volunteers and Interns
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, February 19, 2010, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Presenter: Walter Long
In-house training: Introduction to Oral History
Training for New Volunteers and Interns
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, February 12, 2010, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Presenters: Kim Bacon and Virginia Raymond
In-house training: Introduction to the Texas After Violence Project
Training for New Volunteers and Interns
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, February 5, 2010
Presenters: Kim Bacon, Lydia Crafts, and Virginia Raymond
Our series, Resisting Violence, Imagining Alternatives: community conversations, took place on Wednesday evenings in October. They were intriguing, stimulating, and well attended. Thank you to all the participants and to our diligent, creative, and generous co-sponsors: allgo: a queer people of color organization; La Voz de Austin; the Texas Civil Rights Project;
Texas Inmate Families Association (TIFA); Texas Jail Project; and, from the University of Texas at Austin, the Community Engagement Center (CEC), which hosted the conversations at the Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building on East 11th Street; the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS); the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS); and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies (CWGS).
Incarceration, part of the series, Resisting Violence, Imagining Alternatives: community conversations
Community Engagement Center (CEC) of UT Austin, Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street, 78702
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 6 - 8 p.m.
Presenters: Jorge Antonio Renaud; Susan Fenner, Texas Inmate Families Association (TIFA); Diana Claitor, Texas Jail Project. Moderator: Kim Bacon
Policing, part of the series, Resisting Violence, Imagining Alternatives: community conversations
Community Engagement Center (CEC) of UT Austin, Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street, 78702
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6 - 8 p.m.
Presenters: Gilberto Rivera and Professor Andrés Tijerina.
Moderator: Professor Joy James
Juvenile Justice, part of the series, Resisting Violence, Imagining Alternatives: community conversations
Community Engagement Center (CEC) of UT Austin, Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street, 78702
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 6 - 8 p.m.
Moderator: Eric Tang
Violence in our communities, part of the series, Resisting Violence, Imagining Alternatives: community conversations
Community Engagement Center (CEC) of UT Austin, Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street, 78702
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6 - 8 p.m.
Presenters: Carolyn Mosely of the Ortralla LuWone Mosely Foundation; Gabe Padilla, Gay-Straight Alliance, McCallum High School junior; Rose Pulliam, allgo: a queer people of violence organization; and Yasmin Turk, LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Moderator: Parish Jefferson
San Antonio Violence & Oral History organizing meeting
University of the Incarnate Word
Friday, October 2, 2009
Participants: Dr. Rachel Jennings (English) of San Antonio College and the University of Texas at San Antonio; Richard Reed ( Deparatment of Sociology & Anthropology) of Trinity University; Dean Bob Connelly (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences), Professor Roger Barnes (Sociology), Rosey Caldwell (Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Humane Humans), and Taylor (Music, Religious Studies, and the Humane Humans) from Incarnate Word; and Kimberly Baconand Virginia Raymond for the Texas After Violence Project
Panel following screening of the film, What I want my words to do to you: Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003)
Presented by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, UT Austin
Calhoun Hall, University of Texas campus
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Texas After Violence Project representatives: Lydia Crafts and Parish Jefferson
Reception
Mi Madre's Restaurant, 2201 Manor Road, Austin, Texas
Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6 - 8 p.m.
Speaker: Honorable Elliott Naishtat, introduced by board president Virginia Garrard Burnett
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Kimberly Bacon, Lydia Crafts, Papa Diallo, Parish Jefferson, Sabina Eva María Hinz-Foley, Walter C. Long, and Virginia Raymond
In-house training: Juvenile Justice
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, July 3, 2009, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Presenter: Forrest Novy, Director of the Inter-American Institute for Youth Justice
In-house training: Oral history in the digital age
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, June 26, 2009, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Presenters: Lydia Crafts and Sabina Hinz-Foley
The Prison Show, hosted by Ray Hill. Mr. Hill has hosted the The Prison Show on Pacifica Radio Houston, KPFT 90.1, since 1980.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Guest from the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis
In-house training: Introduction to oral history and to the Texas After Violence Project
Texas After Violence Project office
Friday, June 12, 2009, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Presenters: Core team members
Volunteer & Intern Appreciation
Friday, May 8, 2009, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Presentation and light refreshments at the Texas After Violence Project office
Festivities continued at Polvo's Mexican Restaurant, 2004 South First Street, Austin, 78704
Address to Amnesty, International
McCallum High School, Austin, Texas
Texas After Violence Project speaker: Kim Bacon
The Austin History Center, Mexican American Oral History Project. Mr. Solis presented on using digital audio and video for oral history interviews
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Ruiz Branch Public Library
Texas After Violence Project speaker: Gabe Solis
At the Death House Door, film screening and panel discussion.
Screen Door Film, with the Kozmetsky Center for Excellence in Global Finance and the Digital Media Management Program of the the School of Management and Business at St. Edward's University.
Jones Auditorium, Ragsdale Center, St. Edward's University, 3001 South Congress Avenue, Austin.
Friday, April 17, 2009, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Texas After Violence Project speakers: Gabriel Solis (panelist) and Ellen Sweets (moderator)
Co-panelists: Carroll Pickett, former Death Row chaplain and subject of the film; Brother Richard Daly, Chaplain, St. Edwards University, and for twenty-six (26) years the executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference, the "Official Public Policy Voice of the Catholic Bishops in Texas" ; Sara Hickman, musician; Bob Van Steenburg, President, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP).
Attendees from the Texas After Violence Project: Kimberly Bacon, Lydia Crafts, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Virginia Raymond, Megan Sissom, Emmanuel Tomes
"Parting Shots: Spectator, State, and Saddam Hussein's Execution," in-house presentation at the Texas After Violence Project.
Friday, April 17, 2009, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Presenter: Megan Eatman
Megan Eatman, a Texas After Violence Project volunteer since September, 2009, presented her work exploring the internet circulation of images of Saddam Hussein's execution. This research forms the basis for her Master's report in English at UT Austin, where Megan concentrates in Ethnic & Third World Literature.
Attendees from the Texas After Violence Project: Kim Bacon, Lydia Crafts, Virginia Raymond, Megan Sissom, Gabe Solis, Maribel Zamora
"The Death Penalty in the U.S. and International Human Rights," a panel at Human Rights at UT: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Academics & Advocacy, sponsored by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas School of Law
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Presenters: Kimberly Bacon, Antony Cherian, Papa Diallo, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Walter C. Long, and Gabriel Solis, for the Texas After Violence Project
Moderator: Eric Tang, Assistant Professor, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (CAAS), UT Austin
In-house training: Grief and grieving,
Friday, March 27, 2009
Presenter: Benita Rubinett, LCSW
Participants: Jennifer Anker, Kim Bacon, Neil Foley, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Lora Hollingsworth-Padilla, Walter C. Long, Megan Sissom, Virginia Raymond, Christina Michelle Rodríguez, Gabriel Solis, and Maribel Zamora
St. Edward's University Spring Job & Internship Fair, Austin
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Texas After Violence Project representatives: Mark Evans and Sabina Hinz-Foley
University of Texas at Austin Nonprofit & Public Sector Career Fair
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Texas After Violence Project representatives: Kim Bacon, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Tamica Jones, & Gabe Solis
United World College (UWC) delegation visit to the Texas After Violence Project. Our guests, ten students and two faculty members from the Montezuma, New Mexico campus of UWC-USA, hailed from Chile, Germany, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Viet Nam, and the United States. We shared a meal and a stimulating exchange about the politics, practices, and beliefs about the death penalty in their home countries and in Texas. Thanks to Papa Diallo for arranging the visit; UWC-USA faculty Cheikh Badiane and Ronald Parris Bushong for bringing the students to us; Lydia Crafts and Tom Kolker for helping with preparations; and the South Congress Avenue Texas French Bread.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Presenters: Sabina Hinz-Foley, Gabe Solis, and Virginia Raymond
In-house training: Oral history in the digital age
Texas After Violence Project office, Austin
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Presenters: Gabe Solis, Kim Bacon & Sabina Hinz-Foley
Participants: Jen Anker, Kim Bacon, Lydia Crafts, Danielle Dirks, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Virginia Raymond, Megan Sissom, Maribel Zamora
Execution Watch, produced by Elizabeth Ann Stein and hosted by Ray Hill. Mr. Hill has hosted the Texas Prison Show on Pacifica Radio Houston, KPFT 90.1, since 1980.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Guest: Gabe Solis
Showing of Writ Writer (2008), by Susanne Mason and panel discussion. Sponsored by The Hon. Elliott Naishtat, Texas State Representative from District 49. Panelists: Susanne Mason; Steve Martin, currently consultant, but has also been a correctional officer, then counsel for Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and co-author of Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987); Scott Medlock, attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project; and Jorge Antonio Renaud, author of Behind the Walls: A Guide for Family and Friends of Texas Prisoners (Denton: U. of North Texas Press, 2002), Texas State Capitol, Austin
February 27, 2009
Attendees from the Texas After Violence Project: Jennifer Anker, Kim Bacon, Lydia Crafts, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Megan Sissom, Gabe Solis, board member Ellen Sweets, Virginia Raymond, and Stephanie Auberger, visiting from Denver for a week to learn about oral history, visit Austin museums, and attend anthropology classes at the University of Texas at Austin
In-house training on Final Cut Pro
Texas After Violence Project, Austin
Thursday, February 25, 2009
Trainer: Antony Cherian
Participants: Kim Bacon, Sabina Hinz-Foley, and Gabe Solis
Visit to All Saints' Episcopal Church, Austin
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Presenters from Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Garrard Burnett and Virginia Raymond
Annual Meeting, Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Schmidt-Jones Family Life Center of First United Methodist Church, Austin
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Information table staffers for the Texas After Violence Project information table: Jennifer Anker, project intern from St. Edward's University; Texas After Violence project board member Ellen Sweets; and team members Kim Bacon, Lydia Crafts, Danielle Dirks, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Lora Hollingsworth-Padilla, and Gabe Solis
Abriendo Brecha V, Office of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, University of Texas at Austin
Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street, Austin
Friday, February 20, 2009
Participants in engaged research discussion: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond
In house training: Introduction to the Texas After Violence Project
Texas After Violence Project office, Austin
Friday, February 20, 2009, 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.
Presenters: Sabina Hinz-Foley and Kim Bacon
Participants: Jennifer Anker, Hannah Rose Bainter, Danille Dirks, Maribel Zamora
In-house training: Introduction to the history, law, and practice of the death penalty in Texas
Texas After Violence Project office, Austin
Friday, February 13, 2009, 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Presenter: Virginia Raymond
Participants: Mary Agnew, Jennifer Anker, Danielle Dirks, Mark Evans, Tamica Jones, Kevin Voelker
We painted and moved into a new office, pausing to appreciate our lovely surroundings and how they often make us feel as if we're working in a tree-house
Austin
January 29 - February 2, 2009
Facilitated Dialogue/Conflict Resolution Training by Tammy Bormann
Part of a January 25 - February 19, 2009, training in preparation for facilitated tours and discussions of the exhibit, Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America through Galveston Island.
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin
Saturday, January 31 - Sunday, February 1, 2009
Participant from the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond
Volunteer Orientation and Training, Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)
Dominguez Unit, San Antonio
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Participant (trainee) from the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond
2009 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration & Cultural Festival
Huston-Tillotson University, 8th & Chicon Streets, Austin
Monday, January 19, 2009
Representatives of the Texas After Violence Project - Ellen Sweets, Gabe Solis, Virginia Raymond, Megan Eatman, Papa Diallo, and Jen Anker - staffed an information table and peddled our new "We Listen" Texas After Violence t-shirts, in navy blue, sky blue, gray, brown, & purple; unisex V-neck, crew neck, "girly" short sleeves and very femme medium-sleeve styles; sizes XS - XXXL
Future Perfect: Retooling Oral History in the Digital Age, offered by the Texas Oral History Association
Baylor Institute for Oral History, Baylor University, Waco
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Attendees from the Texas After Violence Project: Kim Bacon, Antony Cherian, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Gabe Solis, Virginia Raymond, with friend Susanne Mason
Immigration, Incarceration and Capital Punishment: Texas as a Case Study, Interdepartmental Program for Experimental and Cross-Disciplinary Studies, Winter Study Program of Williams College, at the invitation of Williams Professor Joy James
Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street, Austin
January 15, 21, and 22, 2009
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond
Additional participants from the Texas After Violence Project: Jennifer Anker, Kimberly Bacon, Mark Evans, and Sabina Hinz-Foley
Quilombo, at the invitation of Professor Joy James
Office of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement, University of Texas at Austin
Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street, Austin
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Guest participants: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond
University of the Incarnate Word
Courtesy of Professor Roger Barnes
San Antonio
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond
Texas Interdisciplinary Plan (TIP), College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Presenter for the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis
Joint press conference by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR), announcing a major project on the intersection of mental illness and the capital punishment system
Bonilla Science Hall auditorium, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio
Friday, October 3, 2008
Attending from the Texas After Violence Project to listen to testimony: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond
Mexican American Studies 308: Introduction to Policy Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Monday, September 29, 2008
Presenter: Gabe Solis
Listening after violence: a training for interns, interviewers, & community historians
Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1109 East 11th Street, Austin
Sundays: September 21, September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, 2008
Thanks to Ms. Choquette Peterson, Dr. Shannon Speed, and staff of the Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement (TICE) at UT Austin & with the gracious assistance of Carole Metellus, Tayneshia Jefferson, Lisa Byrd, and other staff & performers associated with Pro Arts Collective, for sharing their space with us.
Presenters & participants: Kimberly Bacon, Dr. Virginia Burnett, Creighton Chandler, Antony Cherian, Eleana M. Díaz, Megan Eatman, Mark Evans, Sebastian García, Bianca Hinz-Foley, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Kathryn Krastin, Walter Long, Charlotte McCann, Julia O'Bryne, Jorge Antonio Renaud, Victoria Rossi, Dr. Lorraine Samuels, Brenda Sendejo, Dr. Christen Smith, Gabrel Solis, Dr. Shannon Speed, Ellen Sweets, Michael Truong, Linda L. White, & Virginia Raymond
Annual Meeting, Texas Victim Services Association
Austin
September 9 -12, 2008
Representative of the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis
Austin Citizens Police Academy
Austin Police Department
Tuesday evenings, Summer 2008, eleven-week class
Participant and graduatefrom the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis
United Methodist Women, Asbury United Methodist Church, Austin
Monday, June 2, 2008
Presenters: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond
Austin Citizens Police Academy, Austin Police Department
Tuesday afternoons, Spring 2008, eleven-week class
Participant and graduate of the academy: Virginia Raymond
"Violence and Chicana/o Cultural Production,", Annual Conference, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Austin
March 19-22, 2008
Texas After Violence Participant: Virginia Raymond
Invited co-panelists & friends: Teresa Palomo Acosta, Martha Cotera, and JoAnn Carreon Reyes & Ruperto Reyes of Teatro Vivo
Abriendo Brecha IV, Activist Scholarship at the Tejas Global Crossroads
University of Texas at Austin
February 21-23, 2008
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Kim Bacon, Papa Diallo, Gabe Solis, & Ashley Tanzy
Invited co-panelists & friends: Lisa Byrd, Martha Cotera, & Alberta Phillips
Law and Oral History Workshops
The two Sunday afternoon workshops were designed for Texas After Violence Project interns and volunteers, but we also invited friends with overlapping interests.
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Sundays: February 3 and February 10, 2008
Thank you to Glenna Balch for facilitating our use of the space.
Presenters: Antony Cherian, Seed Documentary Cooperative; Mark Westmoreland, Seed Documentary Cooperative; attorney Walter C. Long;
Participants: Kim Bacon, volunteer; Lee Roy Calderón, friend, student in UT Austin's Center for Asian American Studies; Papa Diallo, recent Huston-Tillotson intern, volunteer and friend; Tina Huckabee, friend; Gabriel Solis, volunteer; Ashley Tanzey, Huston-Tillotson intern; and Stephanie Thomas of ADAPT, our friend
Nonprofit Fair, St. Edward's University, organized by St. Edward's Campus Ministry
September 26, 2007
Representative of the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond
Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Courtesy of Professor Michael Hirsch, Sociology
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Presenter from the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond
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