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An interview with my grandfather

Experiences and opinions about being an immigrant

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

Nadia Ardah tells her story of growing up in Afghanistan and having to leave it due to the invasion of Soviets. She explains her story of leaving her once beloved country and traveling across the world to America.

Audio cut short due to my microphone cutting out unexpectedly, but I’ll post what I have. Here’s Gary Hoaglund reflecting on his childhood and his memories of that time and me as a child.

Kon Nak "Ronnie" Choe is interviewed by Julia Stern about his military service in the Marine Corps and his deployments overseas.

I ask my biggest inspiration, my mom, a wide range of different questions, while learning from her responses.

Gerard McGrinder was raised in the Bronx, New York by two hard working catholic Irish Immigrants. One of 12 siblings, Gerard had many experiences very unlike those children have today. Despite being raised in conditions that did not provide much...

During this interview we talked about not being perfect, but finding perfection in that inperfection.

My family is a family of immigrants from Kenya. Both of them had a lot of siblings and I became really interested in talking to them about what their childhoods were like and hearing stories from then. We talk about...