Breaking Free: Her Path to a New Life
Chris GribbleBorn in a Tanzanian refugee camp to parents who fled conflict in the Congo, Jeanette Muibi grew up walking toward a future she couldn’t yet imagine. In this episode, she…
Forgiving the Unforgivable
At just 50-years-old, Rukshana Hafez Triem could say she’s lived many lives. From fleeing her home country of Mozambique at just 5-years-old to being a refugee 3-times over…first in Malawi,…
Far Singers Join by Kim Stafford
— for the music bearers who carry our common light across generations and borders. In their distant countries, each bird drank from a different spring. Each flew here from a…
My Audacious Grandfather
Erica Naito-Campbell, the author of Portland’s Audacious Champion: How Bill Naito Overcame Anti-Japanese Hate and Became an Intrepid Civic Leader in conversation with Eliza Canty Jones– chief program officer at…
I learned a lot about how to survive
When Thao Nguyen was born in Vietnam, she was seen as an outsider. The daughter of a Vietnamese woman and an African-American soldier, she was considered an American in her…
From the Silk Road to Couture Designs
From early childhood, says Oxana Ake, “I wanted to create things.” Her father, an engineer, taught her how to make boats from wooden sticks, twigs and boards, “and I liked…
A Uniquely Global Citizen
To call Sinait Sarfino a “global citizen” would be an understatement. Fluent in English, Arabic, and Mandarin, she is now learning Korean. She has lived in various countries including Ethiopia,…
What Color is Freedom
TK grew up an exile in his own home country of Rhodesia. Under white minority rule, Black people weren’t allowed in certain schools or movie theaters and it could even…
An Artist with Many Voices
For Dao Nguyen Strom, identity is no simple concept. Raised in the California countryside, Strom was originally born in Vietnam—a country she escaped as a baby and returned to as…
Creating Joy For Others
When Shi Choong, now a wedding planner helping other Portlanders celebrate their love, thinks about her childhood, she recalls the bright colors of her family’s two story shop house in…