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Interview about the Gaston Institute

I interviewed Maria Najera about her experiences migrating as a child, navigating the United States and pursuing a career as a child and family advocate. Her experiences allow her to draw connections about a correlation between quality of life and...

John-Paul and Montserrat about growing up in the U.S as members of the Latin-A, (LatinX, Hispanic, Latino) community, not fitting into a box and sometimes feeling ostracized by the Latin-A communities as well as they communities where they lived, worked...

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...

Leonor tells her story about living is a communist, war torn Nicaragua and having to leave the country with her four small children to live in the US.

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).

It' was about the experience of moving to the U.S to get a better educatión.

Monserrat Macias Moreno (29) speaks with her friend and mentor Jacqueline "Jackie" Jaramillo (72) about their identity as Latinas, their family histories, and their hopes for the Latino population in the United States.

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.

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...

We talked about her feelings while exprincing this and what obstacles she had to go through to survive .

A chat with my Latinx Collective co founder Brianna

In this interview, I interviewed my friend Diego (24) who also goes to SFSU. He is a first generation student who is also a STEM major. He speaks about his background up until now in his life.

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

Carlos talks about his experience growing up in Latin America and his adulthood.

Abby (currently earning a Master of Social Work) interviews Lili (currently earning a M.A. in Counseling). In this segment, Lili discusses how her understanding of her family’s migration changed as she grew up.

Abby (currently earning a Master of Social Work) interviews Lili (currently earning a M.A. in Counseling) about her understanding of her family’s migration in childhood and how her perspective has expanded and evolved throughout her life.

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...

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.

Friends, Antonio Howard (40) and William Hampton (52) have a conversation about Huntsville's historical housing projects, Councill Courts, which was the first affordable housing structure in Huntsville for African Americans.

Johana Sanabria (20) talks with Theo Sanabria (25) about how his childhood experiences, growing up as a Transgender man in a Latinx household affected his life and his mental health. Also discuss self-growth and how to help one self.

I interview my Tia Martha who has been in education for over 30 years. She is the oldest of my mother's siblings. Growing up in the 60s and 70s she was a part of the generation that experienced a lot...

In this interview, I talk to my 94yo Colombian Great-grandmother about anti-racism and anti-Blackness in America, spoken mostly in Spanish.

Fabiola Bair (31) talks with primo-hermano Joseph Hernandez (28) about family origins, structure, traditions, social networks, accomplishments and life in general. Trail-blazers at heart and descendientes de familia Oaxaqueña, Fabiola and Joseph share their experiences growing up as 1st Generation,...

A short interview of Member and activist Dolores Hernández of the Immigrants with Disabilities (IWD).