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Francette Kelley never expected to get into Harvard, but it was a welcome surprise. In this interview, James Kelley interviews Francette in Los Angeles California, about her life growing up in Boston in the 80’s. He asks her about her...

School Counselor Dan Schmidt, 55, interviews one of his students Carolina, 18, about what motivates her, the challenges she faces as an undocumented student, and her hopes for going to college.

The hardships of becoming something from nothing.

In this recording, Alisha Rodriguez at Washington Junior High in Bentonville Arkansas, records an audio file for StoryCorps. Alisha is in seventh grade.

Her childhood memories assisted her to double majors for her community

Talking about my hard work

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This interview took place in Bayside, New York, on December 1st, 2019. In it, Ami Farrell asks her mother, Setsu Sakaguchi, about the challenges she has faced in life and what she has learned from them. As an immigrant from...

This is an interview with my little sister Nora. She is a sixth grader and my interview is an attempt to discover how a 10 year old thinks.

My name is Chase Celestin and i’m interviewing my grandmother.

My name is Linzy Rivera and I interviewed my father Robert Rivera age 50 on December 3, 2019 in Dudley, MA. My dad’s father came from Puerto Rico with the circus when he was 18. My dad’s father also worked...

In this interview, conducted in November 2021, Bo (77)talks with his granddaughter, Brooke (13), about his childhood, jobs, life lessons, and wife. He tells about how he gained confidence and how important hard work is. He shares the story of...

Join us for a morning talk with my mom who is aging and rapidly forgetting details. She is the great-granddaughter of William H. “Billy” Steen who was one of the freed Black families—Hawkins, Pearson, Reece, Steen, Shipp—who established Paris, MS...

In this first half of the interview, Chloe and Chuck discuss Chuck's childhood years up until he enlisted in the US Airforce.

I sat down with my dad to talk about his life and how he grew up. He started from basically nothing and took advice from those of a greater intelligence and applied it to his life and has become very...