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Aarzu Punjani

This interview is with Aarzu Punjani, a business manager and first-generation Indian-American living in San Antonio, TX. Aarzu talks about her early experiences with and without Indian and Ismaili communities. She describes growing up as the daughter…

Amro Eltayeb

This interview is with Amro Eltayeb, an engineer in San Antonio, Texas. Amro talks about childhood memories like his father’s business and the ways his family supported his education. He tells the story of his education in mechanical and software…

Tags: CA - Los Angeles, Culture shock, Education, Family dynamics, Islam, Muslims, Startups, Sudanese-Americans, Tech professionals, Technology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX - San Antonio

Emily Nash

This interview is with Emily Nash, a case manager and aspiring social worker in Austin. Emily reflects on her upbringing, including growing up lower class and the influences that caused her to pursue social work as a career. She discusses her current…

Tags: COVID-19, Culture shock, Disabilities, Family dynamics, Honduran-Americans, Honduras, Immigrant parents, Language, Marginalized communities, Mental health, Mutual aid, Social workers, Socio-economic class, Spanish, Texas freeze, The University of Houston, The University of Texas, TX - Austin, Wealth inequality

Emmad Mazhari

This interview is with Emmad Mazhari, a software designer and photographer living in Houston, TX. Emmad talks about his childhood in Pakistan and his move and adjustment to the United States. He talks about his relationships to the places he has…

Faegheh Shirazi

This interview is with Faegheh Shirazi, a professor in the Middle Eastern Studies Department at UT Austin. Faegheh talks about her family life and education in Iran before the Iranian Revolution, including her early exposure to education and religion…

Hadi Jawad

This interview is with Hadi Jawad, an activist in Dallas, TX. Hadi shares memories of growing up in Pakistan and coming to the US for college. He talks about his business and how he began activism work against US military involvement in Iraq. Hadi…

Hasan Abbas

This interview is with Hasan Abbas, a Pakistani first-generation American who works in accounting. Hasan talks about his interest in culture, from American pop culture to traditional Pakistani culture, and his continuing efforts to participate in and…

Tags: Accounting, Community, Culture, Culture shock, Dawoodi Bohra, Desis, Diversity and inclusion, First-generation Americans, Immigrant parents, Moving, Multicultural, Muslims, New York, Pakistan, Pakistani-Americans, Pop culture, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin, TX - Houston

Itzel Garcia

This interview is with Itzel Garcia, an indigenous Mexican-American who works in cultural education. Having grown up as part of a migrant family living in The Valley, Itzel speaks about how police brutality, alienation from American culture, and the…

Tags: Academia Cuauhtli, Capitalism, Community, Culture, Culture shock, Decolonization, Education, Educators, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Immigration, Indigenous, Mexica danza, Mexican-Americans, Police brutality, The Río Grande Valley, The University of Texas at Austin, US/Mexico border

Jessica Disla

This interview is with Jessica Disla, a member of the IslamInSpanish community and an aspiring teacher. Jessica talks about growing up and family dynamics in a Dominican-American family in Dominican Republic and New York City. She shares her journey…

Jessica Pires-Jancose

This interview is with Jessica Pires-Jancose, an abortion rights organizer working for Avow Texas in Dallas, TX. Jessica talks about moving around a lot in their childhood and their impressions of the different places they have lived. She describes…

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