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Welcome Project

Welcome Project at Valparaiso Universitywelcomeproject.valpo.edu
Collecting stories to make a difference. These first-person stories are part of the Welcome Project, an audio and video collection at Valparaiso University. Visit us as welcomeproject.valpo.edu.
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Episodes

Listen Up! Strong Female Leader

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionados Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are We're Not that Far Along and Strong Female Leader. You can find both these stories and many more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu

Sep 14, 20211 hr 1 min

Barrier Number One

"If we can communicate with people then, you know, I think some of these other fears and reservations may subside a little bit." from an interview with Michael Brickner, City of Valparaiso Chief of Police, 2013 ~ 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.

Aug 31, 20215 min

"Us/Them" Mentality

~ 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.

Aug 17, 20214 min

Listen Up! Corrupting The Moral Fiber

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week we're joined by Reagan Skaggs, and we share some listener mail (hi, Marc!) and the story "Corrupting the Moral Fiber." Find Corrupting the Moral Fiber and more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Aug 10, 20211 hr

Listen Up! Repatriation Movement

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh, along with guest Reagan Skaggs. This week's story is about the Mexican Repatriation. You can find "Mexican Repatriation" and other Welcome Project stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Aug 03, 20211 hr 2 min

Listen Up! The Trans Umbrella

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Going By My Initials" and "Oh, Wait a Minute." You can find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our weekly podcast.

Jul 27, 20211 hr 2 min

Listen Up! Bicultural in a Deaf Home and Living with Mental Illness

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week they are joined by filmmaker Carmen Vincent to talk through two stories: "Bicultural in a Deaf Home" and "Living with Mental Illness." Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Find Carmen Vincent at carmenvinc...

Jul 20, 20211 hr

Block And Pennsy - Radio Edit

“These communities have been erased.” An interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. Find this video story with archival material and more stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Jul 13, 20212 min

Repatriation Movement - Radio Edit

“From 1929 to 1939 the United States and communities across the United States engaged in a repatriation movement of Mexican nationals.” - Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University ~ 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.

Jul 06, 20215 min

Listen Up! Pride

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin" and "Moral Barriers Between Us." You can find these two stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Jun 29, 20211 hr

Listen Up! Facinated By The Steel Mills

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Fascinated by the Steel Mill and Here on Earth to Help Each Other. Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Jun 22, 202159 min

You Have Hair On Your Arms

"It’s those kinda questions that people are asking and...you have to have a little patience...because they don’t know." ~ 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.

Jun 15, 20213 min

Valpo Fit The Bill

"The premise of the academic environment made it worth considering." ~ 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.

Jun 08, 20213 min

Listen Up! Fences

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Fences and Not Something That You Force. Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Jun 01, 20211 hr

Connective Tissue

The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly thrown up barriers to our ability to gather physically together, one key condition that can facilitate the connective tissue of belonging. But in the face of our need, have we found workarounds to those barriers? Of course. In the following conversation, you’ll hear from two working artists—Sinéad Rushe, award-winning Irish director and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and Margaret Laurena Kemp, multi-d...

May 25, 202121 min

Listen Up! Barging In With Our Rainbow Flag

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week includes a conversation about pride flags being taken down from a local school, and Deb Porter, a local teacher, joins us to talk about it. This week's story is Barging in with Our Rainbow Flag. Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favor...

May 18, 202158 min

War Zone

"...there’s a legacy around the capacity to stand one’s own ground and say, 'No, this is who we are. And this is what we stand for. And this is what we can do.'" This interview was recorded using Zoom. ~ 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.

May 11, 20216 min

Standing On Shoulders - Bleeped Version

“I was very fortunate because… people had gone through it already, you know, my brothers.” (Bleeped version.) ~ 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.

May 04, 20214 min

Standing On Shoulders

“I was very fortunate because… people had gone through it already, you know, my brothers.” Warning: contains racial slur. (We have a bleeped version, if you prefer.) ~ 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.

May 04, 20214 min

Listen Up! Reach Out To Our Neighbor

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "Reach Out to Our Neighbor" and "Should Play Nicer." Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Apr 27, 20211 hr

Where Is Everybody Running Away To? - Radio Edit

"The potential in Gary was and still is tremendous." ~ 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.

Apr 20, 20214 min

Gary Made Me - Radio Edit

“I always want to make my city proud.” ~ 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.

Apr 13, 20214 min

Listen Up! White Privilege

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and Welcome Project aficionado Willow Walsh. This week's stories are Pulled Over Probably Twenty Times and White Privilege. You can find those two stories and many more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Apr 06, 20211 hr

Code-Switching

"And so they had to negotiate both of those worlds. That’s what black people have always done." ~ 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.

Mar 30, 20215 min

Listen Up! Totally Safe Unless You're Brown

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. Dr. Larry Baas joins Allison and Willow to talk about his work tracking bias incidents in Northwest Indiana. (Please excuse a bit of muffled voices due to masking.)This week's story is Totally Safe Unless You're Brown. You can find this Welcome Project story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and/or subscribe to our weekly podcast.

Mar 23, 20211 hr

Watching Fires

“No other part of their humanity could be seen beyond the color of their skin.” This interview was recorded over Zoom. ~ 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.

Mar 16, 20215 min

Listen Up! Dodged A Bullet

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 stories are Dodged a Bullet and People Have Their Attitudes. Find these stories and more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Mar 09, 202159 min

I Wanted More For My Kid - Radio Edit

“As a parent sometimes you just overthink things.” ~ 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.

Mar 01, 20213 min

Listen Up! Memory In The Light Of These Sources

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 Memory in the Light of These Sources. You can find the video of this week's story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Feb 23, 20211 hr

In Thy Light, We See Light

“No light, no engagement; no light, no understanding.” ~ 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.

Feb 16, 20213 min
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