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"If you can live in Gary, you can live anywhere." ~ 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 a 3-part series called We Beat Statistics. These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities,...

"The fire and the smoke, because it was in the coke plant where we went, and it was smoky, and stunk, and dirty, and these people walking around like a Flash Gordon movie, you know, shoveling in these furnaces." ~ 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 from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Lived Between Two Physical Barriers" and "Didn’t Want Us To Grow Up Thinking the World Was Terrible." Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on yo...

“Something in me that I didn’t know I had.” ~ 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 story is Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“It takes a lot for our hearts and our minds and our eyes to get there, where we start viewing groups that look different than us not as groups but as individuals.” ~ 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.

“If I wasn’t at home or at school, I was in East Chicago hanging out with my grandparents.” - Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. ~ 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.

“If you are a good neighbor, your neighbor’s going to be a good neighbor.” Fun news! Every other week, we’ll drop into the lineup a 30-minute episode of Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio. In addition to one of our stories, you’ll also hear discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Neighboring in Kouts. Find more...

“The Latinx communities have been instrumental both as workers, as community members, as beacons of cultural institutions.” - Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University Find a longer, video version with a transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2020/09/07/not-newcomers/ ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to o...

“I don’t think a lot of people understand how hard it is.” Transcript (English): Once I actually started looking around when I first got here I noticed that there was not a lot of, um, minority students, and I almost felt like an outsider because of that. Um, not because I felt uncomfortable with being around people that were different than me. In fact, I think that you can easily relate to someon...

“There has to be an element of trust there, and that doesn’t exist right now.” Fun news! Every other week, we’ll drop into the lineup a 30-minute episode of Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio. In addition to one of our stories, you’ll also hear discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is To Be a Good Neighbor. Find...

“Just ’cause someone’s homeless doesn’t mean they’re worthless.” CONTENT WARNING: “Don’t Know How I Survived” contains sexual abuse and violence. These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum. Find more Invisible P...

“Yo quiero hacer un ejemplo.” “I want to be an example.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite a

“If all of us who received inspiration move, who’s going to inspire the next generation?" ~ 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 Mexican-American community in the United States – it wasn't really taught in high school." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story with historian Emiliano Aguilar ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“My voice was so little, nobody heard it. I started screaming.” A Welcome Project oral history interview with Captain Hanadi Al-Hindi, Saudi Arabia’s first female pilot. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“They had to sneak to the park to play with us.” Warning: story contains racial slurs. ~ 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.

“They had to sneak to the park to play with us.” Warning: story contains racial slurs. Racial slurs are bleeped in this version. ~ 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.

“It’s not a life choice; being poor is just a life circumstance.” ~ 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 felt, 'Wow, this is scary,' because I want to be in there with him... and 'Can I do that? Am I capable of that?'" ~ 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. Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all...

“Her income changed just the slightest bit and… it just kicked the underpinnings right out from under us.” Three audio stories from a couple’s experience of family, work, health, and homelessness These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Cente...

"You have a delightful mix of people starting over fresh and I think the notion was that, 'We are Mexican. We will always be Mexican first and maybe American second.'" A Welcome Project Flight Paths oral history story from an interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. The video version of this story incl...

“If you are a good neighbor, your neighbor’s going to be a good neighbor.” ~ a Welcome Project story in collaboration with StoryCorps ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrou...

“I am 100% committed to changing the fabric of our city.” Part 4 of an oral history story from an interview with Mayor Jerome Prince, Gary, Indiana. ~ 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.