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My brother and my mom have been very close, and they talked to each other a lot more often and more easily than I talked to my mom. My brother has moved out and with that my mom and I...

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...

Evelyn Cope interviewing her brother Fred Burkett

In this interview, conducted virtually via zoom on November 15, 2021, 22 year old student Ally Shatter interviews her mother, almost 60 year old Jeanne Shatter about what it was like for her growing up as a little girl back...

Frank age 98 on Providence Hospice, of Dutch Indonesian heritage born in east Indies shares reflections with his son Frank who lives with his father about serving in the Dutch Indonesian army and being a prisoner of war for three...

Marie Presnal came to the US in 2000 from the Philippines. She married Hannah’s father in 2001 after 9/11.

Barbara Hester Kurtz (87) talks with her granddaughter Susan Scott Peterson (38) about her childhood in Mississippi in the 1930s and 1940s.

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.

This is about my moms childhood in Mississippi.

Barbara and Chandra met through the "Walk a Mile" program and hit it off instantly. Barbara talks about the challenges of being a single mom, needing a job. She started in housekeeping at a Providence hospital, but knew she wanted...

Emma Cortes (16) and her mother Carmela Cortes (47) discuss what it was like when Carmela had a stroke 9 years ago. Emma was freshly 8 years old when these events took place and Carmela was 39. They talk about...

I interviewed my mom, Justine, about her life and how her experiences have helped shape who she is today. I have always been curious about what it was like, from my mom's perspective, of raising two kids while her husband...

gage crowner: 2020-11-30 20:59:55

Kaitlyn Riggs (16) interviewing her Mom, Janine Riggs (45) in her home in EHT,NJ on Novemeber 25th, 2018. They discuss Janine's proudest accomplishments, and what each person accomplished in their life so far. They discuss Janine's inspiration, and her life...

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...

Jackie Neale interviews her undergraduate photography student, Maria Trajtenberg while we are conducting interviews and taking photographs for our storytelling project, The Corona Collective. Maria is living in TriBeCa New York City through the pandemic, and talks about how she...

Samantha Hano talks with her new friend, Katharine Baker, about the interplay between her various religious, sexual, and personal identities, and the role these identities play in strengthening familial ties.

Daniel has a friendly interview with his mom, discovering new things about her past. As he asks her questions, his mom reveals more and more about her life.

Armand shares with hospice chaplain Mary the meaning of Ramadan and the challenges of coming together as a community in person during COVID and shares his sorrow at the death of his mother and how he bakes to remember her.

Avery Echols (18) talks with her mother, Yolanda Robertson (51) about Black womanhood.

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...

Marianna Reidy (19) talks with her mother, Pamela Crossett (41) about how food, water and energy has impacted both of their lives differently.

After giving birth to three boys, Evangeline Charles was hoping for a girl. However, her fourth child, Curtis, was born a boy. Nevertheless, when Evangeline first saw her child, she realized "I loved him more than I could any baby...

Erin Canada: 2021-04-28 03:46:09 A quick interview with my mom in which gets into what's important to her.