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. This week includes a conversation about pride flags being taken down from a local school, and Deb Porter, a local teacher, joins us to talk about it. This week's story is Barging in with Our Rainbow Flag. Find more at wel...

"...there’s a legacy around the capacity to stand one’s own ground and say, 'No, this is who we are. And this is what we stand for. And this is what we can do.'" This interview was recorded using Zoom. ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“I was very fortunate because… people had gone through it already, you know, my brothers.” Warning: contains racial slur. (We have a bleeped version, if you prefer.) ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“I was very fortunate because… people had gone through it already, you know, my brothers.” (Bleeped version.) ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more 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 aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Reach Out to Our Neighbor" and "Should Play Nicer." Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

"The potential in Gary was and still is tremendous." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“I always want to make my city proud.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more 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 aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Pulled Over Probably Twenty Times and White Privilege. You can find those two stories and many more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on y...

"And so they had to negotiate both of those worlds. That’s what black people have always done." ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more 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 along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. Dr. Larry Baas joins Allison and Willow to talk about his work tracking bias incidents in Northwest Indiana. (Please excuse a bit of muffled voices due to masking.)This week's story is Totally Safe Unless You're Brown. You can f...

“No other part of their humanity could be seen beyond the color of their skin.” This interview was recorded over Zoom. ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more 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 along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Dodged a Bullet and People Have Their Attitudes. Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“As a parent sometimes you just overthink things.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more 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 along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Memory in the Light of These Sources. You can find the video of this week's story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Pr...

“No light, no engagement; no light, no understanding.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“The Latinx communities have been instrumental both as workers, as community members, as beacons of cultural institutions.” Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you stories along with discussion of those stories from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories dive into the history of the Latinx community in Northwest Indiana. Find more at...

"It was really a grim reaper for jobs...sweeping away thousands at one time." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“The tradition of the mutual aid society dates all the way back to the earliest days of the Mexican colonies in Indiana Harbor and Gary, Indiana.” In 1956, two groups, the Benito Juarez Society and the Cuauhtemoc Society, merged to form the UBM, the Unión Benéfica Mexicana. ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching f...

"We don't ever want the kids to be able to say we weren't there." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more 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 along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is from Flight Paths, a 5-part audio documentary about Gary, Indiana. Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu

"Anybody who was not well-connected, you go to the Patch." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more 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 along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Bad Things, Good People. The stories featured today are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabr...

“Whether you’re white or black, once you hit the bandstand, then you’re on your own... If you can play, you can play. If you can’t, you can’t.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

"But I think the subtleties are still there.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“I was pulling a suitcase down the sidewalk going from one friend’s house to another friend’s house to a staircase in an apartment complex.” Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Nowhere to Go. Find this story and more on our website at welcomep...