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I, Ari Kaswan (16), interviewed my neighbor Jeanette Bass (50) about 9/11. We talked about her experience during and after the attacks with how it affected the United States in a broad amount of ways, including security, racism, and day...

Ai Choo Kong (“Lovely Pearl”), age 84, interviewed by her daughter, Lin Min Kong (“Bright Forrest”), age 52, about her life growing up in Malaysia, including enduring the Japanese occupation, emigrating to the US, and living in rural North Carolina....

Steve Desroches (48) talks to Stephen Larkin (53) about their shared alma mater Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and their friendship and lives since graduating.

En está entrevista estuvimos hablando sobre la historia de inmigración de Maria nova (20, Honduras) y como fue el proceso de adaptación en este nuevo país con la barrera de idioma y el cambio cultural

I asked my grandpa questions regarding who he eats with, where he eats, his relationship with food, his culture, traditions, and personal history in relation to food.

Michael Scheferman shares his feelings and experiences about 9/11

Personal experiences on 911, thoughts and feelings about actions taken against terrorism

After living through a pandemic since March 2020, five people share their unique experiences and how the COVID-19 outbreak has affected their lifestyle, mental health, physical health, views, etc. Recorded August 16, 2020

Yifei Lou traveled to America to study pastry making at the Culinary Institute of America. But then her time here was changed by covid and wild fires and protests, andfor us we were able to see America in these times...

Me asking my mother a few questions

Stanley Diep (18) talks with his friend, Justin Capriotti (18) about our childhood and also how things are going in the current pandemic.

Tatev Yeghiazaryan (in Brooklyn) speaks with her mom, Karine Arshakyan (in NJ) on mother's day about Karine's life in Armenia during the Soviet era and after its collapse; her emigration and bringing of family to the U.S. and the insightful...

Interview with dad about growing up, religion, and his favorite memories of me and our family.

This interview took place in Bayside, New York, on December 1st, 2019. In it, Ami Farrell asks her mother, Setsu Sakaguchi, about the challenges she has faced in life and what she has learned from them. As an immigrant from...

This interview was done for the "Great Thanksgiving Listen 2019" on November 30, 2019 with my sister. Since she was not able to make it to Thanksgiving due to personal reasons, I interviewed her while she was in New York....

The world and the changes within after 9/11 from the perspective of two young, artistic college students in 2001.

My grandfather talks about his work experience and some of the most interesting places he has been too. He reminisces’ about good old times with family. He lists off some of the 32 Countries he has been too for business,...

In this interview, conducted on November 2018 in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Victoria Diaz (16) interviews her mother Annette (51) about growing up in New York and being sent away at 16 years old. Annette shares the difficulties and...

I interviewed my father and we talked about his early childhood in Germany, his education, career, his travels through the world, and the places he lived in. I chose to interview my dad because I find his story very interesting.

Remembering 9/11 with my dad for global

Interview with my Aunt Nell

This interview conducted in Niskayuna, New York in December 2017, by Matthew Chao (16) interviewing his grandfather John Dowley (74) about his time growing up and his family. Dowley shares how his family influenced his life and initiated changes in...

"On the evening of September 16, 2016 Ahmad Kahn Rahimi, an immigrant from Afghanistan, decided to detonate a bomb outside my window." Mary West tells the story of how a bomb exploded outside her bedroom and what ensued over the...

Barbra Foster talks about her frightening, yet wonderful experiences in the Big Apple around the 1940’s.

Ishmael Sanford talks with Stevie Ray Dallimore about influences in his life, lessons he learned, jobs, school and growing up, politics, religion, and film and theater.