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- Title
- AC Interview, March 21, 2016
- Date
- March 21, 2016
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown
- Description
- Description SUMMARY OF INTERVIEW: AC moved to the United States in 1990 to find work in Connecticut then Massachusetts then DC. He worked as a taxi driver for a couple years before finding a permanent position as a security guard for commercial buildings within DC. As soon as he moved to the United States he began English classes and now takes computer classes to increase his skills. He retired in 2015 and began receiving Social Security and also withdrew his 401k. He is currently unemployed and focusing on his health because he was unable to do so when he was working. He has plans to learn Microsoft PowerPoint take his skills back to his homeland to teach children the application as well as English. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Thrive DC: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homeles
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1515
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- sound recording
- Title
- Aida Basnight-Peery Interview, March 25, 2015
- Date
- March 25, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- SUMMARY OF INTERVIEW: Aida Basnight-Peery was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Chicago, Illionois. After getting her Bachelors and Masters degrees, Basnight-Peery split most of her time between Chicago and D.C. While in Chicago, she had two kids, a daughter and a son, now 20 and 23-years-old, respectively. Although she has had several different jobs, she has worked most of her life as a secretary, but now, she is working part-time with Street Sense, although it is still difficult to make ends meet. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Church of the Epiphany; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1517
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- still image
- Title
- Akuba Dharamah Interview, March 21, 2016
- Date
- March 21, 2016
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Thrive DC: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Local Identifier
- Akuba Daramah_March 21_2016_Sound
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1429
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- sound recording
- Title
- Akuke Ndoromo Interview, March 21, 2016
- Date
- March 21, 2016
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- SUMMARY OF INTERVIEW: Akube Ndoromo is currently homeless and unemployed in the city of Washington, DC. He is originally from Kenya, but has lived in the capital since 1996. According to Ndoromo, he became a multimillionaire through two small business ventures. After a scandal involving fraud at his latest business he was imprisoned. He maintained his innocence, which helped him in the fight for his early release. Ndoromo claims during this time he lost his wife through divorce and has found comfort in the community of Columbia Heights. In the interview, Ndoromo recalls his professional life and higher education, the racism and xenophobia he has experienced as an immigrant, and his homeless status. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- homelessness; Kenya; racism
- Country
- United States; United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1518
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- still image
- Title
- Alexander Mejia Interview, September 7, 2021
- Date
- September 7, 2021
- Creator
- Martinez, William
- Subject
- Mobilizing Against Homelessness, Alexander Mejia, William Martinez
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Alexander Mejia
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4936
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- mixed material
- Title
- Alexis Lindsay Interview, October 30, 2013
- Date
- October 30, 2013
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- SUMMARY OF INTERVIEW: In this interview, Claire Davis talks with Alexis Lindsay, the Special Events and Communications Manager at Covenant House Washington. Ms. Lindsay talks about why youth come to Covenant House and the demographics of the homeless youth population in Washington, DC. Ms. Lindsay also reflects on how to end youth homelessness and the types of services that Covenant House Washington provides for youth. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
- Subject
- Covenant House Washington; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; youth homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1519
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- still image
- Title
- Alonzo Johnson Interview, April 12, 2015
- Date
- April 12, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Local Identifier
- Alonzo Johnson_April 12_2015_Sound
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1440
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- sound recording
- Title
- Amanda Barry Moilanen Interview, May 03, 2013
- Date
- May 03, 2013
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- SUMMARY: This interview with Amanda Barry Moilanen is about being the daughter of a same-sex lesbian couple. Barry Moilanen discusses her moms and the obstacles they faced as a same-sex family unit. Barry Moilanen talks about her membership to the LGBT community as the daughter of a same-sex household. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- American University, Ward Circle; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness; LG
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1521
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- still image
- Title
- Anthony Rivera-Rosa Interview, March 21, 2016
- Date
- March 21, 2016
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- SUMMARY: Anthony is a recovering drug addict who has mainly worked as a carpenter. He is fifty-nine years old and was born in Manhattan before moving to Puerto Rico and then back to the United States. He said he was a functioning addict for most of his life and always been able to make ends meet, until developing an addiction to crack-cocaine in the late 2000s. He has been in recovery and not working for the past two years but feels confident his skills will get him back into the workforce when he feels ready to move on. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- homelessness; Manhattan; drug abuse
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1522
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- still image
- Title
- Chon Gotti Interview, March 31, 2015
- Date
- March 31, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community
- Subject
- Church of the Epiphany; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness;
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1526
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- still image
- Title
- Cowanda Gresham Interview, April 12, 2015
- Date
- April 12, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Local Identifier
- Cowanda Gresham_April 12_2015_Sound
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1448
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- sound recording
- Title
- Curtis Harrison Interview, November 11, 2019
- Date
- November 11, 2019
- Creator
- Curtis Harrison; Sarah Canfield
- Description
- Curtis Harrison recalls finding out he had HIV while incarcerated for a 20 year sentence. He talks of his time living in homeless shelters in D.C., in Joseph’s House, and temporary housing.
- Subject
- Washington, DC; HIV/AIDS; Joseph’s House; Cornerstones Affordable Housing; homeless shelter; spirituality; dialysis; prostate cancer; D.C. Medicaid; incarceration; grill cook
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Joseph's House Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2194
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- mixed material
- Title
- David Chisolm Interview, April 12, 2015
- Date
- April 12, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Local Identifier
- David Chisolm_April 12_2015_Sound
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1447
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- sound recording
- Title
- David Sembly Interview, April 12, 2015
- Date
- April 12, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Local Identifier
- David_Sembly_April 12_2015_Sound
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1454
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- sound recording
- Title
- Daynika Skipper Interview, November 21, 2013
- Date
- November 21, 2013
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- homelessness advocacy; youth homelessness; LGBT
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1532
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Debra Smith Interview, April 12, 2015
- Date
- April 12, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Local Identifier
- Debra Smith_April 12_2015_Sound
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1456
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- sound recording
- Title
- Dmitri March Interview, March 27, 2016
- Date
- March 27, 2016
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- SUMMARY: Dmitri was born and raised in Washington, DC. He has worked as a performer, but also as a custodian and a sales associate. Dmitri attributes most of the successes and challenges in his life to God. He prefers not to talk about his past and to focus on his relationship with God, which he feels has been the main reason that he has been able to get through the difficult times in his life. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Asbury United Methodist Church; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1533
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- still image
- Title
- Eric Sheptock Interview, February 18, 2015
- Date
- February 18, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1534
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Eric Sheptock Interview, May 2, 2020
- Date
- May 2, 2020
- Creator
- Eric Sheptock; Dan Kerr
- Description
- Eric Jonathan Sheptock, a working homeless person addresses how Covid-19 has impacted him. He works for a company that provides porta-potties and hand washing stations for events and has had his hours dramatically cut. His company contracts with the city to now provide these services to homeless encampments, and he has gained a greater sense of the large numbers of people living outside. He is currently in a hotel under quarantine after discovering the person who sleeps near him at his shelter contracted Covid-19, but he does not have symptoms. He hopes we do not forget about the homeless when things go back to normal, that we work together to end homelessness and increase access to affordable housing and living wage jobs. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
- Subject
- Humanities Truck; American University; Washington, DC; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; quarantine; homelessness; affordable housing; living wages; work; shelter; encampments
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2131
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- mixed material
- Title
- George Olivar Interview, April 12, 2015
- Date
- April 12, 2015
- Creator
- Person responsible unknown
- Description
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
- Subject
- Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
- Country
- United States
- Local Identifier
- George Olivar_April 12_2015_Sound
- Collection
- Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1427
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- sound recording