United States -- Immigration and emigration
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Masumi Timson
Oral history interview with Masumi Timson conducted by Sankar Raman and Giacomo Ranieri on March 19, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Timson immigrated to the United States from Japan in 1991. She became a professional musician, a koto instructor, and a regular performer with the band with Pink Martini.
Oral history interview with Franklin Tokam-Powell
Oral history interview with Franklin Tokam-Powell conducted by Rachel Ramirez on April 30, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Tokam-Powell was born in Cameroon. He lived and studied in Ukraine, China, and South Korea before he and his partner, Tristan Powell, moved to the United States, where they married.
Oral history interview with Zsuzsanna Vamos
Oral history interview with Zsuzsanna Vamos conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on August 20, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Vamos immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1989. She worked at the Kansas University Medical Center, became a pharmacist in Hillsboro, Oregon, and exhibited art at galleries in the Pacific Northwest.
Oral history interview with Alejandro Vilches
Oral history interview with Alejandro Vilches conducted by Sankar Raman on February 3, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Vilches was born in Texas and grew up in Honduras. After earning computer science degrees from the Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 2007 and from Purdue University in Indiana in 2011, he became a software engineer at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Nora B. Womack
Oral history interview with Nora B. Womack conducted by Robert J. Gassner on September 6, 1988, as part of the Portland's Syrian/Lebanese-American Community series. Womack was a Lebanese-American living in Portland, Oregon.