ABOUT THIS APPLICATION:
- Applications are now due on Friday, February 14th, 2025 at 11:59 CT.**
- This application is eight short answer questions with an optional section to share more about yourself and your work.
- Please do not stress too much about your answers. We value your honest thoughts over any "professional" writing or AI-generated paragraphs. We are grateful for a chance to learn more about you, your story, and your interest in working with TAVP.
- Read more about the TAVP and our work on our website and take a look at our Instagram account.
ABOUT PRIVACY: TAVP works to keep your information confidential and safe. While your applications will be reviewed by members of TAVP's team, TAVP will delete your information at your request, one of the last questions on this very application. (At times, applicants will request a copy of their application months after the application process. This experience along with TAVP's own practices of care means we want to let the applicant decide what suits them best.) If you have any questions about this approach, please message staff@texasafterviolence.org.
ABOUT THE CAC: The Community Advisory Council provides oversight and guidance to TAVP’s documentation, collections, programming, and advocacy work. The Community Advisory Council is composed of people who have prior experience with our work and mission and who drive our programs, advocacy, and documentation efforts in thoughtful and meaningful directions. In short, the Community Advisory Council serves as a compass for not only where TAVP goes but how TAVP gets there. Each Community Advisory Council member brings their lived experience as survivors of state violence and/or practical experience in documentation, archives, and memory work to quarterly meetings that hold space to discuss both the day-to-day and long-term vision of TAVP’s work.
NOTE: There are five Community Advisory Council members, and TAVP is looking to fill all five positions.
- There are no formal educational requirements.
- The most important qualification for joining the Community Advisory Council is direct lived experience and deep interest in oral history interviewing, community memory work, abolition, and transformative justice, or those who are currently engaged in or have experience with similar documentation and advocacy efforts.
- Community Advisory Council members are required to live in the United States.
- TAVP especially welcomes applications from BIPOC communities that have been directly targeted by white supremacist patriarchal violence past and present. We know that undoing these legacies of violence requires recentering those most harmed by it.
