Director/FounderThe Voices & Faces Project
Anne K. Ream is a Chicago-based writer and the founder of Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices and Faces Project), a global testimonial writing program which seeks to share stories that witness to gender-based violence and other social injustices. The author of "Lived Through This" (Beacon Press), a critically praised memoir documenting Anne’s multi-country journey listening to the stories of sexual violence survivors, Anne’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, and the Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, among other publications. Anne is the co-founder of World Without Exploitation, the US-based national coalition to end human trafficking; and serves as board president at Justice for Migrant Women. The recipient of numerous awards for her work using story to create social change, Anne explores the intersection of music, gender, and culture as a music critic for New City Chicago.