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Liz Huff (50) talks with her voice teacher, mentor, and friend, Gary Race (70), about teaching and directing opera. Recorded August 11, 2020.

Mahendra Shah always wanted to make a “lasting impression” on society. He always wanted to make a change and have a purpose in life. As a child, he believed that having a “last impression” on society was to become a...

Ms. G, who conducted this project is interviews here. She talks bout her life as a teacher and what it has taught her.

Creating Community Through Sharing Stories: Seema Gupte, born and raised in India, talks about her childhood living between her family’s farm and in the city. After immigrating to America, she adjusted to the many cultural differences. Once she moved to...

William Porter (80) answers questions about his life and gives advice on how to live a happy life.

Emily Crowell (17) and Fernando Ocampo discuss being Argentinean, moving to the United States, and education.

Venkata Duggireddy (17) interviews his mom about the transition between India and the US and the lessons she learned from it. She informs him on how she hopes to use them to help herself and others in the future.

In this interview I conducted in November 2022 in Larkspur California, I interviewed Thomas Gaine, 49 male who is my father. in the interview, he talked about childhood experiences he had and how that shaped him as a person today....

Malcolm Bryant talks about some of the big picture challenges he sees in the field of global health, ranging from narrow and overly medicalized strategies to reduce maternal and infant mortality to the skewed priorities and short timelines of donors....

[Recorded January 31, 2021] Tim Towslee, 44, and Allison Swingle, 31, participate in a One Small Step conversation via Zoom. They talk about their work in outdoor education, the impact of having a parent pass away, how their political views...

On February 5, 2018, Nathaniel and Mary sat down to talk about Mary's life, and the background of her family.

My name is Ozan Kara and I am a 17 years old cultural exchange student from Turkey. As an high school student in Bloomington, Indiana, I have had the chance to know a wonderful person, Vanessa Domizlaff, my German teacher...

In this interview, orchestrated at Egg Harbor Township High School in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Jaila Cruz talks to and interviews her former World Cultures teacher Kevin Hackney about the wonders and the adventures of life and college.

Diane (76) is asked about her childhood and family, as well as the people who affected her life the most. She reflects on her own and her son's weddings, as well as her daughter-in-law. Diane answers why she wanted to...

In this interview, told in November 2018, In Egg Harbor Township. Salman Bilgrami interviews his mom Vaseem Bilgrami about how her life was, growing up in India as a little child. She tells stories about how society was run there...

Divya Singh is an 18-year-old Indian American who is in her senior year at IMPACT Early College High School in Baytown, Texas. Her parents emigrated from India about two years before she was born. Divya discusses what it was like...

Kaitlyn Shaw speaks to Jim Kremer, her former professor, about how they inspired each other.

Vickie Silver & Katie Gennrich who are Osher members and friends, reminisce about the 1960s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

In this interview, conducted on January 5, 2023, in Canton Michigan, Aditi Iyer interviews her grandmother Shantha Dhandapani (70) about her childhood in India and her work life. She talks about the different jobs she worked in and how it...

Teresa retired from Hospice in Petaluma on December 7, 2020. She and Kristen discuss her career as a nurse, what brought her to nursing, to hospice and what advice she would give new nurses

Virendra Gill (74) has a deep conversation with his granddaughter, Keya Dutt (12) about life in the Indian army and in India.

Robert Hellenga (78) talks with Joseph Lennon (51) about their friendship of 34 years. Hellenga taught Lennon from 1986-1990, and was his mentor. They talked about literature, pens, music, Italian food, and Knox College. Hellenga is in hospice with neuroendocrine...

Lawrence Siddal (91) is interviewed by Rachel Behlke (23) about his life, his adventures, and his thoughts. These adventures range from him growing up in Ohio to being drafted to Germany to driving out to India to having to work...

Veronica B. Salcedo (40) talks with her friend Alex Thomas (34) about growing up in and moving away from her Filipino American hometown.

Meredith talks with her colleague, Liz, about her journey to her nursing career, starting in a veterinary clinic, the Army, and finally Cal State Fullerton. She and Liz talk about working in Home Health and the challenges, and joys of...