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Interview with my Mommom, Patricia

Riya Patel (19) speaks with her mother, Kavita Patel (45), about her life and the challenges she has faced as a woman stuck between maintaining her cultural roots and adapting to changing societal views on gender roles.

An interview with my friends grandmother about her life.

Sadie interviews her neighbor Gita Suneja.

The start of 99 years

A daughter asking her mother questions about her move to America and questions along the line.

Ethan asks his grandma to reflect on her life on her 70th birthday.

Born one of seven in World War Two Germany, Emil (Mike) Kropf speaks about his life—his experience coming to America, being drafted in the U.S. army, meeting the love of his life on a train and coming back to raise...

In this interview, I talk to my dad about his life growing up in India and how his transition was coming to America creating a new life from scratch.

Sameer and his mother Mahmoodah have a conversation about Mahmoodah's journey from Pakistan to American and becoming a doctor and raising a family along the way.

Marlo talks about her Grandmother Ella Mae McManus who passed away over 20 years ago.

This interview is a Cuban interview. I love my grandma and this brought us closer. I asked her questions about our family and about her, that I never knew before. I loved this assignment and I’m sure that future students...

86 and 90 year old siblings, Max and Sonja reflect on their families’ choices and character as they recall their immigration from Germany to the United States in 1937.

Me and my grandmother spoke about her memories about her childhood and her earlier years

Georgina Solis, a mother of 3

Wynne Beiring (51) and Priscilla Wilson (72) discuss the influential grandmothers in their lives, Priscilla's path to coming out to her friends and family, and how politics don't necessarily matter in the course of getting to know someone.

Holden Beaudoin(16) interviewing Wendy Beaudoin(75), his grandmother. We talked about her trips around the world and past events and experiences about other countries and our family.

Hi I’m Peyton. I interviewed my grandmother on when I was born. She tells about her excitement and happiness she endured on that day.

Almudena Ayala

My grandma is a first generation immigrant to the United States. She came to this country from Ecuador at 8 years old. She shared with me her memories as a young child living in Ecuador and growing up in Chicago.

Interview of a grandmother who has had to raise her grandson due to her daughter’s drug use.

This is an interview of our grandmother, Mehmooda Khalid. She has been through a lot in her lifetime including the partition of India and Pakistan.

Interview with my grandmother

In this interview, conducted in November 2021, I (Selina Cervantes, 24) interview my Grandmother (Victoria Cervantes, 77) about what life was like when she was a girl compared to girls lives and upbringing since. We talk about her opinion on...

This is my interview with my grandma, Robin. we talk about growing up, politics, and more! (The end is cut off, at the end we talk about her advice to future generations. Her advice was to be kind, take climate...