"Schooling" COVID-19 – Comments on how varying levels of education were affected by the pandemic

A discussion amongst family members about their experiences related to education and how they were impacted by the pandemic. Erin (25, They/Them) was furloughed from their job at the start of the pandemic, and then chose to resume college courses...

Cybele Nielsen

This is an interview with Cybele Nielsen. She was asked about when and where she was born, the person who has been kindest to her in her life, her happiest memories in her life, her favorite memory of me (her...

Sidney Fiarman

We talked about my father’s experience as the child of Jewish immigrants who escaped World War II. He described growing up in an all-immigrant neighborhood in the Bronx in the 1930s.

Your Past Doesn’t Define You

Symphony Pomales (16yrs) interviews her grandma Shirley Lopez (55yrs) on November 15, 2017 in Valrico, Florida. Mrs. Lopez tells about her life growing up in the urban city of Bronx, New York. She also tells of her struggles being a...

Teresa Gonzalez (centro) habla de como los Estados Unidos le ha dado derechos como mujer para separarse de un esposo abusivo.

“Estoy libre. Tengo libertad.” Teresa (centro) habla con su colega Mariana (izquierda.) Teresa es una cuidadora de ancianos y una madre de cuatro hijos; 3 recibieron DACA, 1 recibio un título universitario y el más joven empieza universidad este año.

High school senior Christara speaks to her teacher Jae about her struggle to pay for college and why she cannot return to Haiti.

“When you tell someone ‘go back to your country,’ you might as well be telling them, go die.” Christara, who does not qualify for DACA, opens up about her life and the first time she came out about her undocumented...

Joselyn, 18, speaks to her boyfriend, Luis, 19, about the difficulties of college as an undocumented student.

"It would mean the world...to graduate college...show my grandmother that I accomplished something and that the separation was not for nothing." Joselyn moved to U.S.A. at 9 to live with her parents, who left Ecuador to earn enough to feed...

"Deseo que todos mis hijos tengan exito a pesar de de que algunos son indocumentados." Maria es intrevistada por su hija Liz.

"[Como padres] sacrificamos estar [indocumentados] en los Estados Unidos por la educación de nuestros hijos. Quiero que mis hijos aprecien la vida en los Estados Unidos, pero espero que tambien valoren la cultura Mexicana."