Raman, Sankar
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Abdi Nazemian
Oral history interview with Abdi Nazemian conducted by Sankar Raman and Nancy E. Dollahite on November 8, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Nazemian discusses his experiences as a gay Iranian American, and his career as a screenwriter and author.
Oral history interview with Brenda Neri-Wong
Oral history interview with Brenda Neri-Wong conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on August 22, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Neri-Wong came to the United States from Mexico as a child to seek treatment for a blood disorder. She later became a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient.
Oral history interview with Abdulah Polovina
Oral history interview with Abdulah Polovina conducted by Elizabeth Mehren and Sankar Raman on January 7, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Polovina discusses his experiences as a Muslim in Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars.
Oral history interview with Hatidza Polovina
Oral history interview with Hatidza Polovina conducted by Elizabeth Mehren and Sankar Raman on January 7, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Polovina discusses her marriage to Abdulah Polovina and her experiences as a Muslim in Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars.
Oral history interview with Yamini Rajan
Oral history interview with Yamini Rajan conducted by Monica Salazar and Sankar Raman on February 20, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Rajan discusses her experience as an Indian immigrant in Oregon and speaks about her mental health during her teenage years.
Oral history interview with Nader Rezvani
Oral history interview with Nader Rezvani conducted by Dora Totoian and Sankar Raman on August 15, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Rezvani discusses his experiences in Germany and the United States as an immigrant from Iran, and talks about his career as an engineer at Tektronix, Inc. in Beaverton, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Sarah Rikaz
Oral history interview with Sarah Rikaz conducted by Sankar Raman on January 11, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Rikaz discusses her career as an artist and her experiences in Portland, Oregon, as an immigrant from Sri Lanka.
Oral history interview with Mario Gomez-Rubio
Oral history interview with Mario Gomez-Rubio conducted by Sankar Raman on March 18, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Gomez-Rubio and his family immigrated to Oregon from Mexico in 2015. His mother, Elizabeth Rubio-Alfaro, also participated in the interview.
Oral history interview with Felix Songolo
Oral history interview with Felix Songolo conducted by Sankar Raman on February 10, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Songolo, the son of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, immigrated to the United States with his family at age 4. They settled in Portland, Oregon, in 2004.
Oral history interview with Lori Stegmann
Oral history interview with Lori Stegmann conducted by Sankar Raman and Alia Burck on September 7, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Stegmann was born in South Korea and adopted by an American family through the Oregon-based aoption agency Holt International. She was a Republican politician and served on the Gresham City Council from 2010 to 2016. She was elected as a Multnomah County commissioner in 2016, and she changed her party affiliation to Democratic in 2018.
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