To truly learn what adversity is

Simran Pravin has only heard bits and pieces of her father’s stories from way back when he immigrated to the United States, but she never understood her father’s feelings towards it all. So for the #GreatListen2019 Simran sat down with...

Compassion Blog 5

A discussion between Isabelle Ruan, 19 years old, & Chelsea Qiu, 57 years old. I’m Isabelle and Chelsea is my mom. We reflected on her childhood and growing up in 1960s China.

Joseph Lee Service Learning Project

Interviewing my dad. Asked about college as well as about his experiences throughout life.

Storytelling Assignment

In this interview, my sister and I discuss the happy memories we’ve shared over the years as well as some of the difficult ones.

interview

grandpa and grandma lost citizenship ship. petitioned to regain it.

Immigration interview

Why Carmen Valentin immigrated to the United States

Relationships and Situations

This interview it’s with my roommate Gabriella and one of my best friends. We talk about love and relationships and situationships. Along with growth through understanding significant others and working through issues.

“I even told myself I wanted to become a carpenter.”

Since he was young, my dad aspired to become a carpenter and build infrastructure where he grew up, a city called Zamboanga City that was not so urbanized as it is today. He did not envision moving to a new...

(Shortened) Interview with Ms. D – “Undocumented Immigrant Migrant from Mexico”

Ms. D works as an art teacher at a school in the south side of Chicago. She shares her story of immigrating to America and migrating once she arrived. She shares her perception in human right violations for immigrants, and...

My Dad’s experience growing up in Communist China and as a first generation immigrant

I discuss with my dad his upbringing in Shanghai, China during the Cultural Revolution and his first experiences in America as a first-generation immigrant and one of the first Chinese immigrants that immigrated into the US after the reopening of...

Coming 2 América

In this interview conducted on May 30th 2022 in Salt Lake City Utah, Angie Linschoten (18) interviews her uncle Ignacio Valdez (42) about history Coming to America from Mexico. They conversed about obstacles of immigrating to other countries perspectives and...

Taylor Burton Interview

This interview was about my sister who has endured many challenges in her life. She talks about how she overcame these struggles and how she felt during these times.

Interview with Vicki (Crazy Thai)

Vicki speaks on her experiences being a foreigner from China in Grayson County.

Treat Everyone Like Human Beings

This interview was record in Egg Harbor Twp, NJ in my parent's bedroom on November 25th, 2018. I interviewed my mother, Nargis Serneabad, who immigrated from Bangladesh to the U.S. in 1996. She reminisced about her first day landing in...

English Final Project: An Interview with my Mother

I interview my mother about her home country, Suriname, and her experience coming to America.

Immigration

Starting from the beginning of their decisions of immigrating to the United States. Then concluding with their citizenship process and their lives in the U.S .

My Unethical Struggles with anti-Zionism on American University’s Campus, and How I Have Taken an Ethical Stand Against Them.

Millie (19) interviews a friend and fellow CAS LEAD student, Maya (20), about her unethical struggles with anti-Zionism on American University's Campus and her stand against these struggles.

My Mother’s Experience Immigrating from Former Soviet Union to Wisconsin

My mother’s struggles with the fall of the Soviet Union and the wars in Georgia. Then the struggles she had with immigration and language barriers. Finally how she overcame them now.