Search Interviews

Friends and coworkers Bridget Mulroy (38), Marty O'Malley (67), and Mike Fernandez (65) talk about their lives in Mobile, what brought them to working with people with disabilities, and what they have learned from their work.

Vivian Gibson (74) tells Delilah Righter (25) about her childhood growing up in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri, reflecting on the neighborhood’s disappearance due to urban renewal.

Matt Commo (55) and Ann Commo (53) live in Waterbury, Vermont which on July 10th-11th experienced historic flooding. They share the flood’s impacts on them, their story of rebuilding, and their perspectives on the future living in a floodplain.

My mother speaking about how we went through Hurricane Sandy as a NYC resident.

For my APUSH Project I interviewed my ELA Teacher, Ms. Vassilakis on her and her family’s experience with Hurricane Sandy.

Friends Randy Williams [no age given] and Jess Lucero [no age given] discuss how they met and their work with the Cache Refugee Immigrant Connection (CRIC).

Friends Augustine "Chris" Baca (74) and Alberto Gutierrez (54) talk about family history and what it means to be Chicano.

the infamous hurricane story

Brenda Butt Davidson (69) interviewed friend Barbara Ann Sullivan Brooks (92) about childhood memories, her career, a trip to Europe in 1995, and the Fresh Air Fund.

LHP

Willie Landry (71) talks with his friend Mollie Ray (40) about growing up in Louisiana on a sugar plantation, his fishing and restaurant businesses, his wife and family, being a widower, surviving cancer, moving to Pensacola and becoming a primitive...

Clarke Weigle (63) shares a conversation with his mother, Joan Weigle (92), about Joan’s childhood, her mother and father, her husband, her children, and her career.

An interview with Tammy Hellman about hurricane Katrina.

Sisters Lynne Trotta (60) and Mary Ollila (56) share a conversation with their father, John LaFontaine (86), about John’s upbringing in Connecticut, their family, the different places they lived, and how John ended up moving to Wilmington, North Carolina.

Colleagues Bill Henry (70) and Lisa Custalow (54) share a conversation about the human history of Shenandoah National Park, the people displaced by the government to create the park, and the work that they are both doing to honor the...

Clara Cardriche (60) is interviewed by her niece, Tayra Cardriche (37), about her early childhood, how her parents met, her mother's immigration from Cuba, the love for her eldest brother, and finally, the forming of her Black identity as she...

Matilda Kreider (22) talks to her mom Patricia Kahlbaugh (58) about living in a house on the Long Island Sound that is frequently hit by hurricanes and will be made uninhabitable by sea level rise in the coming decades. Potential...

Cemelli Espitia leads an interview with Muralist and Co-founder and President of Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Erick Arguello. We discuss gentrification, his raising in the mission in the 70s, the history of the mission, the need for murals, the...

Sophia Starr, 17, and her 43-year-old mother, Tina recall days of missed school since 2014. Long before Covid-19, Sophia missed school for hurricanes and lava flows.

Hurricane Laura

A boy and his mom discuss childhood similarities and life lessons that can be learned from childhood

This was my mom's story on how hurricane sandy affected out family

A discussion about the Latino experience in Dallas, TX, small business owners and the threat of housing displacement in Oak Cliff neighborhoods with Jennifer Rangel, urban planner and author of "A Geographical Examination of Urban Planning - Oak Cliff as...

We dive deep into the thoughts and feelings of the people who were affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

I interviewed Tibi about his general life experiences.