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How did you feel when you came to the USA and what was it like when you were a child?

Sara Suk is a 42-year-old mother of two daughters, a high school freshman, and a high school senior. In 2002, she immigrated to Honolulu, Hawaii from South Korea with her husband to continue her studies in Brigham Young University. After...

My Chinese mother recounts growing up in 1970s Suzhou, China and moving to Alabama in the early 90's to start a new life. She discusses her career, reflects on major life choices, and gives advice.

I talked to my grandma about her father’s family of 13, and how being immigrants changed his life, and hers.

In this interview, conducted in Colorado on May 20th, 2019, Jeffrey Li interviews his mother Danlin Liu about her life experiences and stories. She first talks about her childhood in China and what life was like in her hometown, as...

Chong Sun Kim was 13-years old when she had to leave her home with only a bag full of belongings, in the wake of the battle that would tear apart the Korean Peninsula. In November of 2017, 14-year old Nathan...

One Small Step conversation partners and colleagues Yelando Johnson (53) and Huachuan Wen (44) discuss how their experiences as people of color have impacted their careers.

Iris Holway-Price (93), matriarch of the family, is interviewed by her nephew, Gary Kendall (83), about their family history for future generations to come.

Qin immigrated from China to the US in 1989

A story about my mother’s assimilation into American culture.

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

We talked about my mom’s history as a Chinese immigrant to America.

interview with my korean grandma on my dad’s side.

My interview with Peter for our Introduction to Minority Cultures Class

My mother’s struggles with the fall of the Soviet Union and the wars in Georgia. Then the struggles she had with immigration and language barriers. Finally how she overcame them now.

I, Genesis Bernal, interviewed my grandmother, Sun Kim, and asked her questions about her childhood, coming to America, her occupations, and my mother’s and uncle’s father.

I asked my father questions about his immigration from Ukraine to eventually the West, and general questions about his childhood.

I discuss with my dad his upbringing in Shanghai, China during the Cultural Revolution and his first experiences in America as a first-generation immigrant and one of the first Chinese immigrants that immigrated into the US after the reopening of...

The immigration of a woman from China. (Interview is in Mandarin)

My mother's experiences with her grandma Mary

Nina shares stories of her life in Russia, from childhood memories of trips to Moscow to a summer spent by the Baltic Sea.

In this interview on Sunday, November 25, Sergei Eliseev (16) interviews his dad, Roman Eliseev (48), about his life in the Soviet Union. Roman shares his experiences in Soviet schools and his daily life, along with his military service. He...

In this interview recorded on January 2, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas, Venice Xie (15) asks her mom, Tracy Xie (47) about growing up in China and moving to the United States. Mrs. Tracy explains how her childhood was difficult...

Cora Champommier (15) sits down to talk with her mother, Gummee Champommier (52), on the personal hardships of living with immigrated parents, far from home; and finding comfort in the routine of her past life

My mother, Penny Lam DeFreitas, talks about immigrating from Hong Kong to America, and what growing up in San Francisco was like in the brand new environment she was thrown in.