Audio recordings of an oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel that was conducted in three sessions, from January 15 to January 27, 2020, by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, Juniper Yarnall-Benson, and additional unidentified interviewers. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. The third session was recorded on video, but only the audio from the session is included in this collection.

In this interview, Choephel discusses her family background and early life in Rachu, Tibet; talks about how the Chinese invasion of Tibet affected her daily life; discusses the reasons her family fled to Nepal around 1959; and shares her memories of the journey. She talks about her life and education in Nepal during the 1960s and 1970s; about her arranged marriage to Tsering Choephel, a fellow Tibetan who had immigrated to the U.S. and was working as a lumberjack in Maine; about adjusting to life in the United States; and about living in Camas, Washington, beginning in 1976. She speaks extensively about running a food truck called Tibetan Family Momo in Dallas, Texas, and shares her reasons for selling the business and returning to Camas. She talks about her involvement with the Tibetan resettlement project in the 1990s, about inviting the Dalai Lama to visit Oregon, and about the creation of the Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association. She closes the interview by discussing the opportunities she had by coming to the United States, and talking about the importance of preserving Tibetan culture.