StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative Teams Up with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

MEDIA ADVISORY
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
CONTACT: Michelle McCarthy, (212) 982-9699 or michelle@iava.org
StoryCorps Press Desk, 646-723-7020 ext. 75, press@storycorps.org

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NEW YORK - StoryCorps, a national nonprofit oral history organization, will team up with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) to record stories of IAVA members nationwide, as part of StoryCorps’ Military Voices Initiative. The Military Voices Initiative is a collaborative project to record, share, and preserve the unique stories of new veterans, service members, and their families. IAVA is the nation’s first and largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the lives of our newest veterans and their families.

The recordings will take place at StoryCorps’ NYC StoryBooth, a soundproof, professional recording facility located at Foley Square in downtown Manhattan. We invite members of the press to interview IAVA participants, speak to StoryCorps staff, and tour the recording facility. Media must RSVP in advance to Michelle McCarthy, michelle@iava.org.  

StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative is generously funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and The Boeing Company.

WHO: StoryCorps and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)

WHAT: A day of recording with IAVA members and staff, recent veterans, service members, and military families; Tour of StoryBooth

WHEN: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

General Press Guidelines:

• Cameras will be allowed in the MobileBooth before interviews begin. Photographs and video can be shot from outside the window during interviews.
• Press can listen to interviews with participant permission, on wireless headphones (when available) from outside the booth.
• Press can interview participants, with their permission, before and after their StoryCorps interviews.   

If you are a member of the media who wishes to arrange an interview with IAVA Founder and Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff or a local IAVA Member Veteran in the New York City-area, please contact Michelle McCarthy at (212) 982-9699 or michelle@iava.org.

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (www.IAVA.org) is the country's first and largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has more than 200,000 Member Veterans and civilian supporters nationwide.