Fanny Julissa García

Fanny García is a Honduran-American oral historian, educator, workshop facilitator, and project director specializing in applied oral history a framework she developed to describe how oral histories can be used to educate, inform policy change, and support communities. Her work focuses on applied oral history practices with immigrant communities, family separation at the U.S./Mexico border, detention experiences, survivors of violence, and the intersection of personal narratives with broader social justice movements.From 2017 to 2019, as an advocate for social justice within the oral history profession she was a member of Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change. In 2019, she received the Oral History Association's Emerging Crisis Fund Award and in 2022 the association also granted her a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to work on a project with immigrant families separated at the U.S./Mexico border. Until recently, she served on the editorial board for the Oral History Review. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Oral History Master of Arts program and currently serves as Editorial Program Manager at Voice of Witness.