Welcome Project

Welcome Project at Valparaiso University

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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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426 episodes

Immutable Fact

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

15m
Jul 18, 2023
Listen Up! 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 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.

55m
Apr 25, 2023
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-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.

1h 1m
Apr 18, 2023
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 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.

59m
Mar 28, 2023
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 "Residential Segregation and Racial Inequality" and "Black Mecca." 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.

58m
Feb 28, 2023
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 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.

58m
Feb 14, 2023
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 we're doing something new – Allison is interviewing Reagan about her effort to unionize a Starbucks store in Valparaiso. Find our stories and their transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

56m
Jan 31, 2023
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's stories are "Because I Can Forgive" and "Hold My Boundaries." 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.

1h 0m
Jan 24, 2023
Because I Can Forgive

“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.

3m
Jan 03, 2023
I Belong In Art – Radio Edit

"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.

2m
Dec 27, 2022
Not At The Expense Of Being Myself

"...they wanted to fit in… they loved the idea of community… I mean, I think everybody wants that sense of belonging." 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.

17m
Dec 19, 2022
Listen Up! Responding To A Report

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." 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.

54m
Dec 10, 2022
Listen Up! To Have A Yacht In Valpo

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 "Outside In Instead of Inside Out" and "To Have a Yacht in Valpo." 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.

54m
Dec 06, 2022
Listen Up - Assimilating to a New Culture

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 "Shocked" and "Assimilating to a New Culture." 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.

1h 34m
Nov 29, 2022
I Know Dirt

"I'm not living in any subdivision, never." Edited by Nick Ladeau. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

4m
Nov 22, 2022
Assimilating to a New Culture

“I think one of the greatest things about coming into a new culture and assimilating to it is the fact that you actually understand your culture better.” Edited by Nick Ladeau. Find this story and its transcripts at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

4m
Nov 15, 2022
Listen Up! OUTober

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 "It's Not You, It's Your Gender" and "I See Myself as a Bridge." 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.

58m
Nov 08, 2022
Divorce Themselves from Gary

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

4m
Oct 25, 2022
Listen Up! Concerned Latins Organization

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 and Reagan Skaggs. This week's story, "The Concerned Latins Organization," is of historian Emiliano Aguilar sharing the history Latinx communities in Northwest Indiana. 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.

58m
Oct 11, 2022
Listen Up! Remember Where You Came From

Listen Up! from Welcome Project Radio brings you a story or two along with discussion of that story from co-directors Allison Schuette and Liz Wuerffel along with our guest, Jp Avila. This week's stories are "Remember Where You Came From" and "My Father Had to Take on Two Jobs." 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.

1h 0m
Sep 20, 2022
Listen Up! On Being Neighbors

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 and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Kept Quiet and Nodded" and "Not Something that You Force." 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.

57m
Sep 13, 2022
Listen Up! Farm Stories

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 and Reagan Skaggs. This week's stories are "Some of the Best Ground in the World," "Division Road," and "Home for Good, I'm Sure." 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.

58m
Sep 06, 2022
Listen Up! Fixing vs Healing

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 and Reagan Skaggs. This week, Allison is bringing in a text into conversation, along with a story from our Invisible Project initiative – Made Us Feel Low. 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.

57m
Aug 30, 2022
Fallen on Hard Times

“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.

2m
Aug 23, 2022
How Did This Happen?

“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.

2m
Aug 23, 2022
It's Cold, It's Rough

“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.

2m
Aug 23, 2022
Listen Up! Bicultural In A Deaf Home

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 weeks stories are "Bicultural in a Deaf Home" and "Words Have Power." 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.

56m
Aug 09, 2022
Every Day Is Questionable

"Living in your car... it's not a home." Story by Connor O'Hagin; edited by Amanda Yonushatis. 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.

3m
Aug 02, 2022
We're Not That Far Along

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.

58m
Jul 19, 2022
To Have a Yacht in Valpo

"Today and tomorrow are going to be frigid – zero degrees again." A story by Eric Beaubreau. Edited by Amanda Yonushatis. Find this story and its transcript at welcomeproject.valpo.edu Listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

3m
Jul 12, 2022