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A conversation with my mother about how she feels the day after she learned she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Interview of 1940-2020

Colleagues Margarita [No Name Given] (31) and Pat Medige (57) share a conversation about immigration, focusing in particular on Margarita's experience coming to the United States and eventually gaining DACA status. Margarita also reflects on the importance of education to...

Facilitator Jhaleh Akhavan (30) interviews Kryszelda Mendoza (27) about her early life, growing up without her father (who was deported), how she became a teacher, and why she continues to teach today.

Mrs. Carni worked with a friend who’s father was Chief Fire Fighter and died saving peoples lives.

Spouses, Maria Gsell (67) and Ted Murray (73), share a conversation about their families, their work and careers, and their relationship with one another.

Sakhone Lasaphangthong (46) talks to StoryCorps interviewer Syma Mohammed (34) about coming to the US as a refugee, being incarcerated, and his current work with houseless people.

Jerry Yang is 22 years old and has been living in America for the past 7-8 years. We talked about the Chinese culture and how it fairs against American culture. We also talked about assimilating to different cultures and what...

One Small Step conversation partners Carson Berrier (23) and Anna Koutsouftikis (18) talk about how they grew up, their religious beliefs, politics, their interests and what they see and hope for their futures.

In today’s society people are celebrating LGBTQ people with parades and festivals, rather than spreading hatred towards them, but this wasn’t always the case. In November of 2018, 14 year old Sofia Brandon-Schwartz interviewed her father, Carlo Brandon to learn...

Judith Barba Perez (31) y su esposo, Lehabim Escoto Flores (34), comparten una conversación sobre sus experiencias al inmigrar a los Estados Unidos desde México y el trabajo que ahora hacen para apoyar a otros inmigrantes. [Judith Barba Perez (31)...

How World War 2 and the Vietnam War effected everyday life.

On 12/3/21 In Flint,MI Linda Black and Her Granddaughter Kyndall Dotson has a conversation about the trial’s and tribulations in her life and also talk about her experience in the south.

Close friends Sarah Lister (52) and Jef Evans (51) look back on their shared memories from growing up in a conservative community connected to the West Gate Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida.

Kevin Shannon tells an in depth story about a time he and his friends were attacked on a Friday night.

Participant's names were Thomas Jones, my father who is 50, and myself who is 19. The topic we discussed was a story about when he was a child and living at a farm. He had an altercation with what he...

One Small Step partners Scott Gordon (71) and Randy Schwartz (52) find common ground through their inverse political journeys.

Andrew Taylor (Student, Chicago) spoke with Xanat Sobrevilla (Organizer, Chicago) of Organized Communities Against Deportation about her work, the deportation process, and her vision of migration justice in the future.

My mother shared her experience of how the 9/11 went. She explained how she felt and how it impacted her.

In this interview we basically talked about life’s situations and lessons and how all of this became an inspiration to who we are today and how no matter what people go through, they can always oversee it. We broke down...

Significant others Todd Mackey (39) and Elizabeth Buckley (40) share a conversation about their earliest memories of meeting each other and about coming back into contact later in life. They also talk about their relationship, falling in love during the...

Esta es la historia de una mujer fuerte que tiene muchas ganas para tiene una mejor vida. Ofelia es una mujer libre de ser pobre y ahora vive sin preocupaciones.

Talked about life and the things he has learned. Also what he wants out of life.

1940-2020

This was an interview that I did with my mom that really just talked about her culture, childhood, my childhood, raising children, her job and her story.