SOC 110 StoryCorps Assignment

This is an interview with Mackenzie Ludlam about her biggest influence and life growing up.

Part Two: Maria speaks of transition, settling into Richmond, and her dreams of bringing more Mexican culture to her adopted city!

Part one of two: Maria sits down with Alison and translator Kaitlyn to talk about family, her move to Richmond, and ways she believes we can incorporate more Mexican culture into the town she has grown to love and appreciate!

My mom and I lol

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Cicero, Illinois, Efren Carreño (18) interviews his mother Maria Cardona (45) about her childhood in the country she was born

Consuelo Rodriguez

Asked my 103 year old Grandma about her life growing up in Mexico. Asked about her family and her marriage to Matthias Rodriguez whom she married in 1940

Great Thanksgiving Listen

In the interview I focused mainly on early life and her best years and tried to focus on the positive throughout the interview.

Love, pain, and Hope

During the 8 minutes in which I sat down with my mother to speak about the impact that I’ve had in her life, she told me about some of the most notable moments in her life since she birth me.