Sheryl Oring is an artist and writer whose work explores issues related to the First Amendment as well as language and memory.
Oring initiated the I Wish to Say project in 2004 as a commissioned artwork for the First Amendment Project (http://www.thefirstamendment.org/) in Oakland, Calif. Peter Jennings named her Person of the Week on ABC’s World News Tonight for her work on the project during the Republican National Convention in New York in 2004.
