Mary Male and Dave Grishaw-Jones

"Peace" is an action verb, not just a noun. Personal transformation and relationship building are paths to peace.

Stoney Brook and Christy Hightower

Stoney Brook talks about how being a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago in 2014 touched and changed him in unexpected ways. Among other things the pilgrimage was the gateway to his setting up the first Veteran's Treatment Court in...

Nicholas Piediscalzi and Christy Hightower

Nick Piediscalzi, a retired minister, talks about what brought him to Peace United Church of Christ in Santa Cruz California. He admires the active, lively congregation here where people are not afraid to be vulnerable in church. Nick explains: “In...

Nicholas Piediscalzi and Christy Hightower

Nicholas Piediscalzi, a retired United Church of Christ minister, talks to us about his personal experience and relationship to peace, as well as his work in peace-making in larger settings. As a minister in Chicago in the 1940s and 1950’s...

Curtis Reliford and Christy Hightower

Curtis Reliford talks about overcoming racism and serious adversity to find and fulfill his life's purpose which is helping those who are experiencing hard times: hurricane Katrina victims and the Navajo and Hopi people. Curtis describes how he follows his...

From battling addiction to trying to be the best mom, I’m really proud I didn’t give up.

Oyuny Bahena speaks with nurse Regina Vittore about her journey -- from battling heroin addiction and homelessness while pregnant to becoming the strong mom she is today. She credits her Nurse-Family Partnership nurses that stuck with her and guided her...

mindy and dad talk about dad’s christmas memories and traditions

recorded just a few days after christmas 2015, we sat down to talk about some of dad's favorite memories of christmas in the past, as well as some of his favorite traditions today

Women in Silicon Valley Part 1 of 2: working in the semiconductor industry in the 1960s.
February 20, 2016 App Interview

Silicon Valley in the 1960s; working at Fairchild; meeting Robert Moore; working at National Semiconductor; how the sheep and goats cut costs; mothers in tech roles; working in Eurosil (Europe). Approx. 35 minutes. Part 2 of 2 Part 1: https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/women-in-silicon-valley-working-in-the-semi-conductor-industry-in-the-1960s-part-1-of-2/

Women in Silicon Valley Part 1 of 2: working in the semi-conductor industry in the 1960s.
February 20, 2016 App Interview

Arriving in Silicon Valley in the 1960s; looking for work; finding work in the semi-conductor industry; Frankenstein's Laboratory. Approx. 6 minutes. Part 1 of 2. Part 2 is here: https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/women-in-silicon-valley-working-in-the-semi-conductor-industry-in-the-1960s-part-2-of-2/

Final Interview-

Talk with my JROTC Master Sergeant about life and the military

"Gave his kids opportunities he never had."
November 24, 2015 App Interview

My father, Shigeru Ochi, was raised in poverty. He focused on working hard and saving to send his kids through college and med school.

A conversation with my cousin Maura Collingwood in Huntington Beach, CA

I asked my mom's 1st cousin about her early life, growing up on a farm in western Ireland and later studying, working as a nurse and raising a family in England, and how she came to be living in the...