"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 ~

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You Have Hair On Your Arms

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.

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Listen Up! Facinated By The Steel Mills

“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.

Block And Pennsy - Radio Edit

"We tried to come to an understanding that there wasn't any intent, there wasn't any ulterior motive, you know, on behalf of the officers."
from an interview with Michael Brickner, City of Valparaiso Chief of Police, 2013
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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Responding To A Report

"I don't understand the experience of other minority groups. But I do understand the experience of being unsure and being scared, because you have to come out as being gay, lesbian, bi, transgendered... you never stop coming out."
Produced by Lisa Zandy for the Welcome Project. You can find this and other stories at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or subscribe to our podcast. The transcript to this story is on our website: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2021/11/16/let-there-be-cake/

Let There Be Cake

“Nowadays, most of these farms have ripped all the fences out and they can take the 40-acre fields and they make them into 200 and 300.”

~ Edited by Nick Ladeau for the Welcome Project ~

You can find the transcript to this story here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2021/12/15/some-of-the-best-ground-in-the-world/

Some of the Best Ground in the World

“I don’t always like to make my identity so easy for people.”

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Find the transcript here: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/03/29/never-felt-pressured-to-wear-it/

Never Felt Pressured To Wear It

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 we have a guest in the house! Our stories are "Naming Can Be Powerful" and "We're Not That Far Along."

You can find these particular stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! Naming Can Be Powerful

“I tried to make it as much about love, and the fact that I love you so much, I'm going to call you out on your bullshit.”

This Welcome Project story was edited by Nick Ladeau.

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Here’s a link to the transcript: https://welcomeproject.valpo.edu/2022/04/12/i-didnt-want-to-be-the-stigma-anymore/

I Didn't Want To Be The Stigma Anymore

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 two guests – Dana Darr and Libby Middendorf! This week, the crew is responding to a street protest following the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision, and shares audio from that as well as excerpts from two Welcome Project stories: 

Find these two stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! We're Not That Far Along

“That whole transition from having a nice house to being homeless – it was a shock.”
Edited by Amanda Yonushatis.

Part 1 of this story comes from our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible the experiences of homelessness in our community. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu. Tune into our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

How Did This Happen?

“That’s what will kill you quick – that ground temp will pull the heat away from your body.”

Edited by Amanda Yonushatis.

This is part 2 of a 3-part story; it's part of our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible local experiences of homelessness. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

It's Cold, It's Rough

“They just get thrown out on the streets.”

Edited by Amanda Yonushatis.

This is part 3 of a 3-part story for our Invisible Project collection, which aims to make visible local experiences of homelessness. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Fallen on Hard Times

“We had this huge exodus and the population went from majority white to majority black.”

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Divorce Themselves from Gary

"I'm not living in any subdivision, never."

Edited by Nick Ladeau.

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I Know Dirt

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 co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Responding to a Report" and "Barrier Number One."

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Listen Up! Responding To A Report

"Most of my childhood that I actually really remember is in the United States, so I am still struggling to find a home."

Edited by Nick Ladeau.

Find a video version of this story and its transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

I Belong In Art – Radio Edit

“I can understand him so much more now as an adult but as a child it was very hurtful.” 

Edited by Rebecca Werner.

Find a transcript for this story at welcomeproject.valpo.edu and listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Because I Can Forgive

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Because I Can Forgive" and "Hold My Boundaries."

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Listen Up! Forgive And Boundaries

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week we're doing something new – Allison is interviewing Reagan about her effort to unionize a Starbucks store in Valparaiso.

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Listen Up! Unionizing Starbucks

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's story is "I Get Food from the Food Bank" and we're also talking about a TikTok clip from Jack Corbett of Planet Money, "There are so many houses, and that is someone's fault."

Find "I Get Food from the Food Bank" and many other stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! I Get My Food from the Food Bank

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Residential Segregation and Racial Inequality" and "Black Mecca."

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Listen Up! Black History Month

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Game Changer" and "That Fear Creeping Up."

Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! Game Changer

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-hosts Willow Walsh and Reagan Skaggs. This week's story is "We Were Them," and we'll be listening to the story with Valpo mayoral candidate Hannah Trueblood.

Find "We Were Them" and the transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! Valpo Mayoral Candidate Hannah Trueblood

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-director Allison Schuette and co-host Willow Walsh. This week's stories are "I Know Dirt" and "Eliminated by Technology."

Find these stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

Listen Up! I Know Dirt

“I'm a man. I'm a trans man. I also want to do gender the way, like, butch lesbians do.”

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Immutable Fact

“I don’t want to be a failure. I don’t want to let my people down.”
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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The Weight I Carry - Radio Edit

"'Dad’s going to play Army.' That’s what they would say."
~ a Welcome Project story ~
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Lineage

“We were good workers, and we did our job quite well, but we didn’t have a passion. You have to have a passion in life.”

~ a Welcome Project story ~

Former Gary resident the difficult labor in the steel mills and the role of passion in work.

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It’s The American Dream - Radio Edit

"I wanted to [write] a book where people would say, 'Oh, man, I loved that book, I want to go see where it took place...'"

~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~
Produced by Rich Elliot

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Proud Of Where You Came From

“Had it not been for this gentleman here, I would have much easier graduated from reform school than high school.”

~ a Welcome Project story in partnership with StoryCorps ~

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Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives: www.storycorps.org

The Other Side of Life

“Pierogies are the Eastern European version of empanadas, you know?”

~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society ~

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Cross-Connect - Radio Edit

~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an oral history interview with Mayor Jerome Prince of Gary, Indiana ~

Part 1 of 4

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Part 1 - That's Who I Am - Radio Edit

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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