A Long Walk Home: About Us

Donations

Please take advantage of the tax break you get when you contribute to A Long Walk Home. We are a 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit, and we need your financial support to sustain us.

Please contribute what you can, and help us grow.

Contributions/Payments may be made by contacting us at
(877) 571-1751

MISSION
A Long Walk Home, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate and to bring about social change. We use the testimonies, poetry, music, photographs, and videos of and by women and children to provide safe and entertaining forums through which the public learns about healing from trauma.
HISTORY
In 1997, during the fall semester of her sophomore year in college, Scheherazade Tillet learned that her older sister, Salamishah, was a rape survivor. In response, Scheherazade began photographing and documenting the impact of sexual assault in Salamishah’s life. In the spring 2000, Salamishah and Scheherazade decided to help more people heal from their experiences of sexual violence by transforming this intimate photography project into the multimedia performance, SOARS (Story Of A Rape Survivor). Given the positive feedback of SOARS and the high incidents of violence that women and children experience everyday, in 2003 Schehehrazade and Salamishah founded the non-profit organization, A Long Walk Home, Inc. (ALWH) and developed comprehensive anti-violence programs that use the visual and performance arts as vehicles for healing, social change, and education.
FOUNDERS
	Scheherazade Tillet is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Child Development and Studio Arts from Tufts University and her Masters in Art Therapy degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Scheherazade is currently an art therapist at the YWCA Chicago Rape Crisis Center and freelance photographer in Chicago.
	Salamishah Tillet is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, her Masters of the Art of Teaching from Brown University, and is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Harvard University.

Testimonial

"Your performance at our annual conference was evocative, powerful and beautifully presented. Attendee after attendee commented on the profound impact A Long Walk Home had on their experience of the conference, and their lives. A Long Walk Home: the Story of a Rape Survivor is an incredibly effective, powerfully constructed, and beautifully performed testament to the power, pain and transformative nature of the experience of sexual violence. Those that attended were touched, inspired and forever changed.”

Suzanne Brown-McBride, Executive Director, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs.