Blair Christensen and Darby Cain

[Recorded: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024] Blair Christensen, a 22-year-old from Charlottesville, VA and Darby Cain, a 71-year-old from Sheffield, England, discussed their personal beliefs and values, including social innovation, climate change, and access to abortion. They shared their personal experiences...

Loving America

Niece interviews her Aunt about her birth country Venezuela and about “the melting pot” in Venezuela and in the US, and her gratefulness for this country (US).

Soledad Vargas’s Story

The people in this interview is Sophia Ochoa (the interviewer) who is 15 years old, Soledad Vargas (the person getting interviewed) who is 79 years old, Rene Ochoa (translator) who is 45 years old. Sophia Ochoa is the grandchild of...

Cizenship
December 8, 2022 App Interview

Ivan describes how an assumption about his citizenship status made him learn about not assuming about anything because we don’t know what the situation people could be going through.

Interview with Baoxia Liu by James Huang

Baoxia Liu was born in Beijing, China and came to the United States in 1997, and she became a US citizen with two children. The interviewer is her 16 year old son, James Huang. She talked about her childhood, lessons...

immigration interview -diverse voices in lit

i talked to my teammate about her journey to this country. She originally is from Spain and has lived in Louisiana as well

Immigration Stories Malta: Seref Baltoprak, "I was a master's student in visual culture in Turkey."

Seref Baltoprak (31) talks with Jackie Neale (50) about his migration from Istanbul, Turkey to Malta. Seref has hopes to stay in Malta and then possibly move to Germany. When Seref was a master's student in visual culture in Turkey,...

Immigration Stories Malta: Tatiana & Anonymous 24, "I was back & forth to Malta 12 yrs ago. Then I brought my Mother & Daughter 5 yrs ago."

Tatiana, her mother, and her daughter all immigrated to Malta from the country of Georgia 5 years ago. Tatiana has hopes of immigrating to the U.S. or Canada in the future for a new and different life than she experienced...

Tara and Darren

Questions about my dad’s experience as an immigrant from Ireland, my childhood, and Sweden. Darren is from Finglas, Ireland, and moved here as a young adult. We talked about that experience and made comparisons between the US, Ireland, and Sweden,...

An Immigrant’s Story-Loving the Place Where I Came From as Well as My Current Home

An interview between a daughter and her Colombian father telling the story of how he came to live in the US

Interviewing my Hispanic mother, Luz.

I interviewed my Hispanic mother. I asked her insightful questions which range from discussing her immigration status to her religious beliefs.

Orest Sosnivka and Lida Nedilsky

Orest (28) --whose name comes from Greek mythology and carries the weight of others' stories-- tells Lida (51) of his journey to Ukrainian Village and the adventures that have defined his life ever since

Kurt Hebeisen – Switzerland to USA (everything is better with an accent)

Swiss merchant marine finding love in Cleveland, OH, getting married and settling in a new country. Becoming a US citizen. Raising a family with English as a second language

Manuel trip to America

My grandpa (Manuel) earning citizenship in America, and his journey to the United States

Pollinating citizen advocates

John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) talks about his work over 30 years with the Unitarian Universalist Association and Friends Committee on National Legislation, traveling across the United States conducting advocacy training workshops to “pollinate citizen...

Life Undocumented

I talk to my life-long friend about life and his struggles of growing up undocumented in the U.S.

Don’t Forget Where You Come From

In this interview, conducted in November 2020 in Orange, California, Diana Portillo (20) interviews her mother Maria Bruno (46) about her immigration process and journey to the United States. Mrs. Bruno shares her experience when moving from Mexico to California....

The life of an immigrant child

This is a talk with my aunt about her life coming to the United States

Historian Interview

We talked about my fathers early life, moving to the United States, his parents, and his profession.

Dad interview

My father’s story about coming into the US, and life in America.

“It was unsafe to stay”

“It took 15 years to get my citizenship.” Yolanda Galvez stated on January 7th, 2020 as Margaux Reynolds who is 15 years old interviewed her about her immigration process to the United States in Los Angeles, California. She came to...