Dust rose around young Zarmina Ahmadi as she stood beneath the spinning blades of a military helicopter hovering above her mountain village in Jaghori, Afghanistan.  

Joni Nakayama Kimoto-Reeves is a proud Sansei–a third generation Japanese-American. Seeking opportunities for a better life,  

During the early 1980’s, Haiti was under the rule of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. The country’s political situation suffered, and shootings were frequent.  

Fair warning as you embark on the story of one woman’s journey across borders and barriers: It would be difficult to exaggerate the complexity of Sonia Priscila Ticas’  

Wu Man was just 16 when she attended a master class led by the  celebrated violinist Isaac Stern. The room at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing  

Ng Lai Goon, eager to fit in with her American grade school peers, chose her American name, Sally, from an elementary school reading primer,  

Growing up in a refugee camp in Tanzania, Jeanette watched the women in her family follow a familiar path—leaving school young, entering early marriages,

As members of Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority, Mohsin’s family has endured generations of persecution. From a young age, he understood the

Toc was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and came to the US at the age of three. As the eldest child in her family, she often had to […]

Welcome to The Immigrant Story Live, where we feature stories from the stage. In this fourth episode, we’ll hear from three storytellers — Jane Mantiri,  

At 23, Jose has spent nearly his entire life in the United States– going to school, making friends, dreaming big. But unlike many of his peers, Jose lives every day […]

Many of us have been told who we are, who we should be. Maybe we’ve been judged for the actions of our parents, the color of our skin, the way

Erica Naito-Campbell, the author of Portland’s Audacious Champion: How Bill Naito Overcame Anti-Japanese Hate and Became an Intrepid Civic Leader in  

This episode brings together two remarkable women, both public servants. Sophorn Cheang is the director of Business Oregon, the economic development  

What does a mental health journey look like? How can art, music, and therapy bring us to better self understanding and self love? In this episode, Portland Community

On a journey to come to terms with their losses, a group of Holocaust survivors from Portland, OR, travel together to six of the locations where concentration camps

A survivor of the genocide in Rwanda when he was a teenager, Emmanuel Turanturanye has a theory about why he is alive: to tell rest of world what happened

After the Khmer Rouge killed her husband, Saron’s mother gathered her three small children and made her way to a refugee camp in Thailand and, finally,