My mother’s journey to the United States

The firsthand story of my mother shifting her life from a third world country to working hard and beginning a new life

Catherine Kratka and Adela Damien Silver

Catherine Kratka (19) talks with her grandmother, Adela Damien Silver (85) about her life in Cuba and coming to America. We discuss her childhood, her opportunity to get an education at Columbia University, and her life in America as an...

An interview with my grandpa (on my mother’s side)

I gave an interview to my grandpa and asked him about his life and his life in general. Here is some background information about Grandpa Xu: Grandpa Xu is currently 71 years old and was born in 1948 in Shanxi,...

How my mom came to the United States

Kattia immigrated to the U.S because for a better life for her two children in Costa Rica. A scary part into coming to the U.S was never seeing her children again.

3 College Kids Discuss How the Laws Reflect the People– or How They Don’t

Sydney Ginter (English, Creative Writing & Publishing and Ancient Civilations) from Dr. Sarah Bond's Roman Law, Order, and Crime course speaks to Vance Davis (Environmental Engineering and Secondary Education) and Haley Triem (English & Creative Writing and Art) about 1)...

6,000 Miles to Freedom

It took about 2 years and 6,000 miles to experience any form of freedom for the first time. On January 5, 2020, 15 year old Kian Salehi asks his mother, Nini Salehi, about her journey to America and the challenges...

The Journey Across

“Family is the most important piece of my DNA so to have to pretend that I wasn’t a part of the only family I had ever known felt wrong but I knew that I had to do it if I...

An immigration from Africa to America

Kennedy interviews her dad, Nick Roxborough, on January 5,2020 in Los Angeles California. “You couldn’t imagine two more different places than San Francisco and a little town called Arusha.”-Nick Roxborough. Nick Roxborough spent the first two years of his life...