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Lois Friedberg-Dobry (94) talks to her caregiver, Demetria Smith (27), about growing up in Chicago, meeting her husband, Alan, the early years of their marriage, raising their two daughters in Hyde Park, and their involvement in Chicago politics.

Jack and John discuss like at the end of 2020

Julia interviews her gramma

Friends and fellow Questbridge scholars, Akie Kadota (19), Christian Reyes, (21) and Carter Liebman (19), talk about their experiences as low-income first-generation college students at Northwestern University. They talk about their family histories, parental role reversal, navigating bureaucratic systems without...

I interviewed my mom, her name is Anne marie.

Informed us about his past and him as a person.

We talked her childhood, acting school, going to college and philosophy.

About her life as a kid and who she is now

We talked about the suggested questions and my mom told her stories that were very interesting as I listened.

This is an interview conducted for my SOWK 732 class at Loyola University Chicago in MSW program through the School of Social Work. The interview was conducted with my mother, Dolores, regarding her experiences as an immigrant from Mexico.

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In this interview, made on December 19th, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois, Asia interviews her grandfather John. They talk about his parents and how he got his name. Asia learned that her grandfather didn’t finish high school and was very active...

Janice Peterson (79) interviews friend Sherryl Engstrom (73), who shares excerpts of letters written to her mother by her father during his World War II enlistment.

Julie Peck 72 and Bill Lynch 75 discussed the development of Bill's social justice philosophy from a Quaker high school, through law school at U of Chicago, becoming a conscientious objector after ROTC, teaching in a changing school system.

Christopher "Chris" Conkell (33) speaks with father, William "Bill" Conkell (74), about his life as a Secret Service agent and health challenges.