Oregon
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Chris Ayzoukian
Oral history interview with Chris Ayzoukian conducted by Sankar Raman, Lindsey Keefer, and Nancy Dollahite on December 22, 2019. Ayzoukian discusses his early life in Beirut, Lebanon, during Lebanon's civil war; life in Los Angeles County, California, from 1983 to 2017; and his work as general manager of the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Marcela Bonilla Morales
Oral history interview with Marcela Bonilla Morales, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy E. Dollahite, and Shea Seery on September 21, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Bonilla Morales discusses adjusting to life in Beaverton, Oregon, after she and her family immigrated to the United States from El Salvador in 2006, and shares her experiences as an undocumented immigrant and with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA).
Oral history interview with Baher Butti
Oral history interview with Baher Butti conducted by Sankar Raman on January 10, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Butti discusses his experiences living in Iraq during the latter half of the 20th century and as an immigrant to the United States.
Oral history interview with Chang-Shee Chang
Oral history interview with Chang-Shee Chang conducted by Dora Totoian on October 18, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Chang discusses his early life in Taiwan and his career as a vascular surgeon in Taiwan and in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lisa Cohn on March 12 and March 23, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Chowdhury discusses his early life in Bangladesh, including his family's experiences during the 1947 partition of India and the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, and talks about his involvement with FashioNXT, a fashion event in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Bernal Cruz
Oral history interview with Bernal Cruz conducted by Sankar Raman on February 25, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Cruz discusses his experience as a Guatemalan immigrant in Oregon, and talks about his career as a social worker.
Oral history interview with Petrona Dominguez Francisco
Oral history interview with Petrona Dominguez Francisco, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, and Hannah Kendall on March 18, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Dominguez Francisco, who came with her family to Forest Grove, Oregon, from Guatemala when she was a child, discusses her experiences as an undocumented immigrant, and her activism for immigrant rights.
Oral history interview with Bukhosi B. Dube
Oral history interview with Bukhosi B. Dube, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lisa Cohn on January 12, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Dube discusses his family background and early life in Zimbabwe, his college experience in the United States, and his career as a doctor in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Milen Gebreamlak
Oral history interview with Milen Gebreamlak conducted by Caitlyn Malik and Sankar Raman on March 4, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Gebreamlak discusses her experiences in Ethiopia and in Portland, Oregon, as a refugee from Eritrea.
Oral history interview with Anna Giurgiev
Oral history interview with Anna Giurgiev conducted by Caitlyn Malik and Sankar Raman on June 7, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Giurgiev discusses life in Romania under communism and her experiences in Portland, Oregon, as an immigrant.