Finding Voice is an innovative literacy and visual arts program dedicated to helping refugee and immigrant youth in ESL classes at Catalina Magnet High School in Tucson, Arizona develop their literacy and second language skills by researching, photographing, writing, and speaking out about critical social issues in their lives and communities.

Youth from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kuwait, Liberia, Mexico, Nepal, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Yemen, and Vietnam work through the creative process of brainstorming, researching, drafting, revising, and finally publishing thought-provoking pieces, which they share with the community through exhibitions, community forums, publications, public installations, and online.


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