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Facilitator Jhaleh Akhavan (30) interviews Kryszelda Mendoza (27) about her early life, growing up without her father (who was deported), how she became a teacher, and why she continues to teach today.

Maji is a musician and Taino native from Puerto Rico currently living in Central Florida. Audio Note: You many notice sounds corresponding to the shells, seeds, glass and wooden beads that Maji wears in his hair or around his neck....

Andrew Taylor (Student, Chicago) spoke with Xanat Sobrevilla (Organizer, Chicago) of Organized Communities Against Deportation about her work, the deportation process, and her vision of migration justice in the future.

Opera Del Sol is taking Opera and making it cool. Opening Opera Wars in Orlando November 24th and 25th at the Abbey.

Esta es la historia de una mujer fuerte que tiene muchas ganas para tiene una mejor vida. Ofelia es una mujer libre de ser pobre y ahora vive sin preocupaciones.

Judith Barba Perez (31) y su esposo, Lehabim Escoto Flores (34), comparten una conversación sobre sus experiencias al inmigrar a los Estados Unidos desde México y el trabajo que ahora hacen para apoyar a otros inmigrantes. [Judith Barba Perez (31)...

Colleagues Margarita [No Name Given] (31) and Pat Medige (57) share a conversation about immigration, focusing in particular on Margarita's experience coming to the United States and eventually gaining DACA status. Margarita also reflects on the importance of education to...

Sakhone Lasaphangthong (46) talks to StoryCorps interviewer Syma Mohammed (34) about coming to the US as a refugee, being incarcerated, and his current work with houseless people.

Story of how composer Leah Nash's piece HUE was composed. HUE is an electronic piece with electric viola overlay and visual elements.

A conversation between Ryan Bean and McKenna Wilkins of Ascension Acro. The four elements of acroyoga: acrobatics, yoga, thai massage, and community. Inclusion of flow arts (hula hoop, staff, fire props) is the future.

En esta entrevista, mi tia y yo hablamos sobre su experiencia en como inmigro a los EU y las dificultades que tuvo que superar en Nueva York.

Joe Gavigan, 50 years old recording my “Friendship” talk I delivered at St Andrew Catholic Church retreat in August 2022.

Monica Whatley (32) interviews her friend, Bandele [no name given] (73), about his incarceration in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bandele reflects on what he learned during the 33 years during which he was detained, his relationship...

A deeper look into the time my cousins parents were deported from the US to Mexico and how it as affected her life through the years

We spoke about the past, present, and future of Garces’ art.

DRIP is a performance art company and is a dance show on International Drive in Orlando as well as traveling performances, like the one done here at Creative City Project in downtown Orlando. We featured a brand new piece called...

How we met and how art (theater) has been a part of our love and relationship.

A simple, yet personal account of Covid-19 by Marcello Aedo a UCF student from Miami, FL.

Veronica Guevara (25) talks with her comadre, Dawn Martinez Oropeza (50), about being one of only a few Latinos in Marshalltown in elementary school, the impact of immigration raids on her undocumented family members, her feelings on racism and classism,...

Talbot and Persaud get a chance to interview each other about how they began their music and poetry journeys. They also talk about how they became friends and ended up where they are now.

"We have to continue to fight to have these rights. That was when I was 15 or 16 when I realized that." - Annette of Mission, Texas talks about her experience with equal rights in the computer science industry. Annette...

Jose Carrio-Castro (26) is interviewed by his wife Audrey Faunce (26). They speak about Jose, who is currently in med school, and his journey as an undocumented immigrant from Peru, to becoming a doctor, and the barriers that he has...

life of kindness

Algis Kalvaitis (45) interviews his parents Irene Kalvaitis (85) and Ramunas Kalvaitis (82) about their experiences fleeing Lithuania as children during WWII, and their lives in various countries before eventually coming to the United States.

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