“The Latinx communities have been instrumental both as workers, as community members, as beacons of cultural institutions.” Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you stories along with discussion of those stories from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories dive into the history of the Latinx community in Northwest Indiana. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your fa...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr
"It was really a grim reaper for jobs...sweeping away thousands at one time." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Feb 02, 2021•5 min
“The tradition of the mutual aid society dates all the way back to the earliest days of the Mexican colonies in Indiana Harbor and Gary, Indiana.” In 1956, two groups, the Benito Juarez Society and the Cuauhtemoc Society, merged to form the UBM, the Unión Benéfica Mexicana. ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Jan 26, 2021•5 min
"We don't ever want the kids to be able to say we weren't there." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Jan 19, 2021•3 min
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is from Flight Paths, a 5-part audio documentary about Gary, Indiana. Find more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr
"Anybody who was not well-connected, you go to the Patch." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Jan 05, 2021•4 min
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Bad Things, Good People. The stories featured today are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.ed...
Dec 29, 2020•59 min
“Whether you’re white or black, once you hit the bandstand, then you’re on your own... If you can play, you can play. If you can’t, you can’t.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Dec 22, 2020•13 min
"But I think the subtleties are still there.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Dec 15, 2020•3 min
“I was pulling a suitcase down the sidewalk going from one friend’s house to another friend’s house to a staircase in an apartment complex.” Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Nowhere to Go. Find this story and more on our website at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project Valparaiso on y...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr
"If you can live in Gary, you can live anywhere." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Dec 01, 2020•4 min
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is a 3-part series called We Beat Statistics. These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum. Find more at welcomeproject.val...
Nov 24, 2020•59 min
"The fire and the smoke, because it was in the coke plant where we went, and it was smoky, and stunk, and dirty, and these people walking around like a Flash Gordon movie, you know, shoveling in these furnaces." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Nov 17, 2020•3 min
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Lived Between Two Physical Barriers" and "Didn’t Want Us To Grow Up Thinking the World Was Terrible." Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Nov 10, 2020•57 min
“Something in me that I didn’t know I had.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Nov 03, 2020•4 min
Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Oct 27, 2020•55 min
“It takes a lot for our hearts and our minds and our eyes to get there, where we start viewing groups that look different than us not as groups but as individuals.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Oct 20, 2020•6 min
“If I wasn’t at home or at school, I was in East Chicago hanging out with my grandparents.” - Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Oct 13, 2020•3 min
“If you are a good neighbor, your neighbor’s going to be a good neighbor.” Fun news! Every other week, we’ll drop into the lineup a 30-minute episode of Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio. In addition to one of our stories, you’ll also hear discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is Neighboring in Kouts. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on you...
Oct 06, 2020•31 min
“The Latinx communities have been instrumental both as workers, as community members, as beacons of cultural institutions.” - Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University Find a longer, video version with a transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2020/09/07/not-newcomers/ ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Sep 29, 2020•6 min
“I don’t think a lot of people understand how hard it is.” Transcript (English): Once I actually started looking around when I first got here I noticed that there was not a lot of, um, minority students, and I almost felt like an outsider because of that. Um, not because I felt uncomfortable with being around people that were different than me. In fact, I think that you can easily relate to someone who doesn’t have the same ethnic background as you do. I was never open with sharing that I was an...
Sep 22, 2020•4 min
“There has to be an element of trust there, and that doesn’t exist right now.” Fun news! Every other week, we’ll drop into the lineup a 30-minute episode of Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio. In addition to one of our stories, you’ll also hear discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's story is To Be a Good Neighbor. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project o...
Sep 15, 2020•31 min
“Just ’cause someone’s homeless doesn’t mean they’re worthless.” CONTENT WARNING: “Don’t Know How I Survived” contains sexual abuse and violence. These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter County Museum. Find more Invisible Project and Welcome Project stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast by...
Sep 08, 2020•9 min
“Yo quiero hacer un ejemplo.” “I want to be an example.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite a
Sep 01, 2020•5 min
“If all of us who received inspiration move, who’s going to inspire the next generation?" ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Aug 25, 2020•4 min
"...the Mexican-American community in the United States – it wasn't really taught in high school." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story with historian Emiliano Aguilar ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Aug 18, 2020•4 min
“My voice was so little, nobody heard it. I started screaming.” A Welcome Project oral history interview with Captain Hanadi Al-Hindi, Saudi Arabia’s first female pilot. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Aug 11, 2020•14 min
“They had to sneak to the park to play with us.” Warning: story contains racial slurs. Racial slurs are bleeped in this version. ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Aug 04, 2020•5 min
“They had to sneak to the park to play with us.” Warning: story contains racial slurs. ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Aug 04, 2020•5 min
“It’s not a life choice; being poor is just a life circumstance.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.
Jul 28, 2020•4 min
