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- Creators: Alvarez, Michael
- Creators: Blackston, Kim
- Creators: Frankel, Lisa
- Creators: Hendrickson, Marian
- Member of: Connecting to Community Through Oral History (C2C)
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This interview is with Gladys Pedroza. Ms. Pedroza has firsthand experience working in politics, the legal field, and in immigrant rights. Ms. Pedroza currently works as a legal assistant in Southern California and is involved in immigrant rights in her community. Ms. Pedroza is working towards becoming an immigration attorney and is applying to law school. The interview covers Ms. Pedroza's personal background, how she became involved in the Women's March of 2017 in Washington D.C. the day after the inauguration, her memories of the march, how the Women's March can improve, issues of inclusion, issues that women face, issues that women of color face specifically Latinas, politics, activism by women, and her hopes for women being involved in the future.
ContributorsPedroza, Gladys (Interviewee) / Alvarez, Michael (Interviewer)
Created2019-11-10
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This is an audio interview with Allyson Bogie a librarian at Fred Korematsu Middle School in the West Contra Costa Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay area of northern California. This interview was recorded for the Connecting to Community Oral History Project (C2C). The interview includes Ms. Bogie’s background, her training as a teacher through the Teach for America program, her transition to library work and her perspective on some local issues of diversity within her school environment. She discusses topics including parental involvement and expectations, and working in a school with a multi-ethnic student body.
ContributorsFrankel, Lisa (Interviewer)
Created2017-11-13
DescriptionAudio interview with Kindergarten teacher Nancy Malek and her experiences in teaching in New Mexico at a year round, multi level school and in Washington State at both public and private schools. Issues of politics in education, bilingualism, funding, and charter schools are also discussed.
ContributorsRamirez, Erin (Interviewer) / Malek, Nancy (Interviewee)
Created2016-09-24
DescriptionThis Interview is with Kim Blackston in Springdale AR at the Don Tyson School of Innovation on September 22, 2016. Throughout the interview we discuss her views of how school has changed during her tenure as a teacher and how the School of Innovation has changed her teaching.
ContributorsHendrickson, Marian (Interviewer) / Blackston, Kim (Interviewee)
Created2016-09-22