Welcome Project

“They just get thrown out on the streets.” Edited by Amanda Yonushatis. This is part 3 of a 3-part story for our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible local experiences of homelessness. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This weeks stories are "Bicultural in a Deaf Home" and "Words Have Power." Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welco...

"Living in your car... it's not a home." Story by Connor O'Hagin; edited by Amanda Yonushatis. This story comes from our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible the experiences of homelessness in our community. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu. Tune into our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with two guests – Dana Darr and Libby Middendorf! This week, the crew is responding to a street protest following the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision, and shares audio from that as well as excerpts from two Welc...

"Today and tomorrow are going to be frigid – zero degrees again." A story by Eric Beaubreau. Edited by Amanda Yonushatis. This story is part of our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible local experiences of homelessness. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. In celebration of Pride, Allison and Willow are diving into their own stories and the many friends and role models who helped them better understand themselves.

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs, along with a guest – Welcome Project co-director Liz Wuerffel! This week we're celebrating Pride month by listening to "Let There Be Cake." Please excuse the quality – we were traveling so had to record...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "We Are a Unit" and "Very White Looking." Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Please, God, Let It Rain" and "Still Working on the Revolution." Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searc...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh! This week's stories are Never Felt Pressured to Wear It and Hijab is Not Just This Cloth. Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome P...

“I remember having to make a distinct choice of who I was going to hang out with.” In this week's story, the storyteller describes what it was like growing up Mexican-American, looking white, and choosing to identify with her white peers during middle school and high school. Find this stories and its transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome P...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Not Just Another Student" and "Fall through the Cracks." Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with a guest – Beth Schuette! This week's stories are "Racial Segregation and Racial Inequality" and "The Strike at Froebel." Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our...

“I tried to make it as much about love, and the fact that I love you so much, I'm going to call you out on your bullshit.” This Welcome Project story was edited by Nick Ladeau. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Here’s a link to the transcript: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/04/12/i-didnt-want-to-be-th...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week we have a guest in the house! Our stories are "Naming Can Be Powerful" and "We're Not That Far Along." You can find these particular stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu o...

“I don’t always like to make my identity so easy for people.” Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Find the transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/03/29/never-felt-pressured-to-wear-it/

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with a guest – Beth Schuette! This week's stories are Curious in a Very Positive Way and Seeking Some Level of Normalcy. Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our week...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Remember Where You Came From and Hitting Home. You can find the video version of these stories and transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh and special guest Kat Peters. This week's stories are How We Ended Up Coming to Gary and Not Newcomers. Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Proje...

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh. This week's stories are We Were Them and What It's Like to Be in that Position. Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite ap...

"As I got older...my freedom to be outside was definitely different." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Edited by Olivia Brown Find the transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/01/25/starting-to-change/ Listen or watch more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or tune into our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

We wrapped up 2021 with a End of Year Show where co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs chat about spirituality and the holiday season. Find us at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "You Pay for It in the End" and "Fascinated by the Steel Mills." Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome...

“Nowadays, most of these farms have ripped all the fences out and they can take the 40-acre fields and they make them into 200 and 300.” ~ Edited by Nick Ladeau for the Welcome Project ~ You can find the transcript to this story here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2021/12/15/some-of-the-best-ground-in-the-world/

“That's a really big catalyst for the competition that we see in the region – because everybody's so close together, they don't want to be associated with the other one.” Edited by Chris Gere for the Welcome Project. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Here’s a link to the transcript: https://welcomeproject.va...