My Story Matters

This interview is about the experience of Daniel and Sergio, two high school students, coming to the United States.

Drama Project

In this interview, I talked with my mom about her childhood. My mother also talks about lessons, important people, and stories she holds close to her.

Fear Can Be A Good Thing

Overcoming a fear can be difficult, but facing fear to overcome it is an audacious way to tackle it. In an interview conducted by Jeremy Frank in Los Angeles, in November 2017, Darryl Frank talks about how he overcame his...

The Virtue of Hard Word

The Virtue of Hard Work is an interview with Steven Quintanilla conducted by his cousin, 14-year-old Angel Santiago in Panorama City November 10th, 2017. Steven Quintanilla is a 23-year-old father to his newborn son who attends Los Angeles Community College,...

Home Away From Home

14 year old Chris Durant interviewed his aunt, Dinora Durant on her early years in Honduras and then some of her life in Brooklyn, New York. When I asked Dinora what she did in her summers she told Chris about...

One man’s 100 year history with City of Hope

Jay Steinman shares his family’s connections to helping establish City of Hope, his mother’s own turn as a patient, and his dream for City of Hope Orange County.

Love, Riots, and Violence, at USC

Ann Garrett, from Clovis, California, in her junior year of USC, 1992, was put into the middle of the Rodney King riots. It is a firsthand story of someone stuck in a violent protest. Interviewed by Luke Garrett, 14, her...

Staff Talk About What Working at TreePeople Means to Them

A StoryCorps-inspired montage of five staffers at Los Angeles-based environmental nonprofit TreePeople speaking about what brought them to the work and why they stay. Recorded in 2011, including the voices of Rosa (Bautista) Donis (38), Edith de Guzman (31), Jim...

Interview with Mom

A quick sit down with my mom, her childhood in Nicaragua, migrating to the US and her “thank you” to her cancer diagnosis.

Millennial Marriage – Chip & Shannon

We talked about why we married in our early 20s, how we’ve changed and grown together, and what marriage is like in a time when most of our friends aren’t married.

How Grandma found God

When life was hard she never gave up. Having a son at 16 didn’t stop her. When her parents took her money that she needed that didn’t stop her. She learned two lessons that stayed with her forever,one always believe...

Edith de Guzman and Andy Lipkis

Edith de Guzman interviews TreePeople founder Andy Lipkis about 50 years in the urban forest movement...and planting 1 million trees for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles

How joining the military changed a life.

In William’s Interview with Bruce Miller his grandfather on November 26th, discussing similarities and differences growing up in different generations and what it was like joining the war, leaving family behind. Joining the military is definitely a great challenge and...

Tamara Wadsworth and her father Kyle Wadsworth talk about family, heritage, and childhood memories

Tamara Wadsworth interviewed her father Kyle Wadsworth in their living room in Santa Monica, CA on November 26, 2017. They discussed topics like family, heritage, childhood memories, and more. Kyle Wadsworth grew up in California with his brother, pets, and...

C130LVR

Natalie Anderson (14) sits down with her mother Kelly DeMarco (44) in Studio City California On January 9th 2020 to talk about Kelly's Job. Kelly works at Pacific Sky Supply and does business with the United States Defense Department. She...

Stop Iran

“I would see stop signs and below the word stop it would say Iran”. On 1/6/19, in Los Angeles, Ani Adell interviewed her mom, Megan Adell, about her leaving her home in Iran and coming to America, and how being...

6,000 Miles to Freedom

It took about 2 years and 6,000 miles to experience any form of freedom for the first time. On January 5, 2020, 15 year old Kian Salehi asks his mother, Nini Salehi, about her journey to America and the challenges...