StoryCorps Chicago: “Our Liberation Is Bound With Each Others’ ”
Lisa Doi is an organizer with Tsuru for Solidarity, a group of Japanese Americans using the folding of paper origami cranes as a way to spark changes to U.S. immigration policy.
Lisa Doi is an organizer with Tsuru for Solidarity, a group of Japanese Americans using the folding of paper origami cranes as a way to spark changes to U.S. immigration policy.
Four decades ago, a local woman put her daughter up for adoption. Last year, they reunited at the StoryCorps booth in Chicago.
An infectious disease doctor spent time in Africa fighting Ebola. Now she talks about battling COVID-19 at home.
Stephanie Thompson and her coworker Pamela Fairley talk about breaking stigmas associated with poverty.
Architect David Gutierrez retired in October. As part of our StoryCorps Chicago series, his granddaughter Harper, 9, interviewed him about his career.
Jes Scheinpflug and Tiffany Favers met on a dating app in the early days of the pandemic. On StoryCorps Chicago, they discuss the challenges and surprises of dating in the midst of a global health …
Helen Beneker first met her adoptive mother, Lisa, six years ago. Now a senior in high school, she recently asked her some big questions.
Music teacher Duane Davis, 74, talks to his former student, Brooke Zino, 29, about a universal challenge: overcoming self-doubt.
A mother speaks with her young daughter about what it’s like to go to second grade online.
At StoryCorps in Chicago, Steve Pemberton looked back over his childhood in the foster system, and the Christmas that changed his life.