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Richard (50) and Kim (45) interviewed Dorothy (88) about her life through the years as well as some of the highlights and challenges.

A story of family friend's family background, leaving Mexico, & settling in the U.S. Also her life in the U.S. and her reflections as far as looking back on her past and her present life now as an immigrant.

Margaret Lim speaks about her experience immigrating from Indonesia to the United States.

In this interview, I talk to my 94yo Colombian Great-grandmother about anti-racism and anti-Blackness in America, spoken mostly in Spanish.

Interview on Latino Studies

We talked about her life in Brazil and her life in the US and moving between both.

In this interview conducted on November 26th, 2018, Amya (21) interviews her friend Winnie (21) about her experiences as a first-generation immigrant and college student. Winnie shares what it was like to grow up experiencing two different cultures simultaneously (Kenyan...

Reflections about Life

I’m Livia Graf and I’m being interviewed by Liv Scadina. We’re both seniors and go to school together. This podcast is about our Ethnic Literature final, where I wrote an essay about how a girl in my class thought I...

Zainab Ahmed speaks about her experiences in college so far and some of her struggles throughout college. She also speaks about why she’s doing what she’s doing and how she plans to carry out her future.

“My childhood was actually great!” In November of 2018, ninth grade student, Olivia Foxman interviewed her grandmother, Shelly Foxman. Olivia learns about Shelly’s admirable  childhood post World War ll. Shelly’s story starts in 1951 in Chicago, but her family's story originates...

Reshma Gajjar, an Indian-American, describes her journey as a dancer, from performing at Luaus as a third grader to dancing on the silver screen in Hollywood.

In this interview done on April 20, 2019, Patricia Tran (20) interviews her mother (60) about her life in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and her journey in fleeing and adapting to the United States and its culture. Thuy Nguyen...

Friends Jennifer Ramos-Chavez (39) and Chelsie Evaldi (39) discuss growing up and raising families in El Paso, being first-generation Mexican-Americans, and the ways they have overcome obstacles to achieve their goals and give back to their community.

We discussed being First Generation Americans and the children of refugees.

Crystal chats about her aspirations of being the first to graduate college and her struggle coming to terms with her sexuality.

A short interview of Member and activist Dolores Hernández of the Immigrants with Disabilities (IWD).

Fabiola Bair (31) talks with primo-hermano Joseph Hernandez (28) about family origins, structure, traditions, social networks, accomplishments and life in general. Trail-blazers at heart and descendientes de familia Oaxaqueña, Fabiola and Joseph share their experiences growing up as 1st Generation,...

Friends Augustine "Chris" Baca (74) and Alberto Gutierrez (54) talk about family history and what it means to be Chicano.

Interview about the Gaston Institute

An interview with Valentina about being first generation college student at Calvin University.

Yevheniia Syrevych is an immigrant from Ukraine who had multiple experiences in the American culture. She first came to US when she was a junior in high school; she spent a year in Pennsylvania for a student exchange program. She...

John-Paul and Montserrat about growing up in the U.S as members of the Latin-A, (LatinX, Hispanic, Latino) community, not fitting into a box and sometimes feeling ostracized by the Latin-A communities as well as they communities where they lived, worked...

Andrew Moreno (16) interviews his older cousin Christian Moreno (28) about his life. Christian shares some of his most profound accomplishments of his life. Andrew and Christian share some insight on their family and how they are the first generation...

interviewing my boyfriend about Mexican American culture