We believe that media can inspire us to imagine and create a better world, and we seek to shift the public dialogue from fear and despair to hope and possibility.

We partner with journalists, photographers, gamers, and filmmakers across the United States to promote and produce storytelling that builds empathy and compassion, connecting us across differences. We are scaling up our work to engage communities, universities, newsrooms, and digital and public media in collaborative, place-based efforts.

We offer alternative approaches to creating narratives by widening the lens that media makers and audiences use to view the world. ivoh is building on research that shows focusing on progress and positive attributes unleashes individual and community capacity for good, supports recovery, and builds broad capabilities for resilience.

20th Annual Images and Voices of Hope Summit

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12 years 10 months
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Amy Ferguson
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Book stack
First Name
Amy
Last Name
Ferguson
Biography

I am part of a web of writers, editors, videographers, communicators, and ambassadors who help shine a light on how we can all contribute to a loving world. For me this comes through in three simple words: reveal, serve, and inspire. It means researching, listening, sleuthing, writing, connecting, and conspiring for good. 

Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

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“We are all born with 200 bad poems in us.”  —Billy Collins

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Internal Communications Officer
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Selections from the We the People Book Club.
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Staff Department
Email
aferguson@fetzer.org

Restoring community, one story at a time, a summit for journalists, photographers, filmmakers, artists, and creatives, who seek to tell stories that provide hope, build resilience, and amplify unheard voices. Fetzer collaboration with Images and Voices of Hope.  Learn more and register.

Images and Voices of Hope Fellows Training

Member for

12 years 10 months
Photo
Amy Ferguson
Cover Photo
Book stack
First Name
Amy
Last Name
Ferguson
Biography

I am part of a web of writers, editors, videographers, communicators, and ambassadors who help shine a light on how we can all contribute to a loving world. For me this comes through in three simple words: reveal, serve, and inspire. It means researching, listening, sleuthing, writing, connecting, and conspiring for good. 

Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

Quote
Quote

“We are all born with 200 bad poems in us.”  —Billy Collins

Job Title
Internal Communications Officer
Cover Caption
Selections from the We the People Book Club.
Engagement Results Display
On
Staff Department
Email
aferguson@fetzer.org

Images and Voices of Hope (ivoh) and the Fetzer Institute welcome the 2019 class of restorative narrative fellows to the Institute for training and reflection on the year ahead. The 2019 fellows will be learning about reflective practices and restorative narrative, tools they can apply to their creative work and in serving communities with stories of resilience and recovery.