Interview with Bob Scowcroft on 12/15/16 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Scowcroft, Bob
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
Interview with Bob Scowcroft and Mark Lipson on 12/15/16 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Scowcroft, Bob; Lipson, Mark
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
At the time of this interview, Bob Tracy was Director of Governmental Relations and Public Policy at the Minnesota Council of Foundations. Prior to that work, Tracy worked for many years in HIV/AIDS policy advocacy and lobbying, most notably with the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP,) as well as with groups like the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual...
Creator:
Tracy, Robert
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing); Margolis, Robin (video support)
Created:
2015-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview with Bob Warrick on 2/16/17 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Warrick, Bob
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
In this interview, Bonnie Heller gives some information about where she grew up and information about her family. Her father was the president of a manufacturing company, and her mother helped a bit with the company. She goes into detail about her art career and how she created some art for synagogues. She also discusses her neighborhood and how...
Creator:
Heller, Bonnie
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Brandi Rose Moxley shares her experiences of work and life during the time of COVID-19. As a nurse working in infection control in a nursing home, she first began to hear about the coronavirus at work and took it seriously even when others did not. She is open about her decision to leave her job due to her own health concerns. She explains how t...
Creator:
Moxley, Brandi
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Bran Fenner is a Black transmasculine activist, consultant, educator, and ER and hospice nurse based in Brooklyn, New York. At the time of this interview, he was Director of People and Organizational Culture at the Transgender Law Center. Prior to his work at TLC, Fenner was the founder of the Education for Liberation Project, a co-director of F...
Branwen Zakariasen is a white trans woman originally from Texas who later spent time in Minneapolis and Portland. At the time of this interview, she was working as a customer support specialist. In this oral history Zakariasen discusses naming, healing from trauma and abuse, taking up labels, family relationships, sexism, and the video game indu...
Creator:
Zakariasen, Brawen
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Breatta Bee Amore is a Black trans female from Chicago and Milwaukee. At the time of this interview, she was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Amore touches upon topics such as gay bars in the Twin Cities from the 1980s and onward, including the Gay 90s, the Saloon, and Brass Rail. She also speaks about working and perfo...
Creator:
Amore, Breatta Bea
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Brenda Pfab shares stories of her life and perspective as a childcare provider and grandparent in Duluth during the time of COVID-19 and school closures. She describes how she first heard about the virus on the news, and began being very careful when shopping by wearing a mask and gloves and sanitizing everything when she got home. She shares he...
Creator:
Pfab, Brenda
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-09-08
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Brian Barber shares stories of his experiences as an illustrator, animator and parent of young adults in Duluth during the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic. He describes how he felt he should do something daily at the start of the quarantine, and settled on creating the “Draw-Along Fun Time” where he posted short videos of himself creating ...
Creator:
Barber, Brian
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
At the time of this interview, Brian Goodroad was a nurse practitioner and Associate Professor and Graduate Programs Coordinator in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He also practiced at the Positive Care Center at Hennepin County Medical Center. Mr. Goodroad has been providing nu...
Creator:
Goodroad, Brian
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Hansen, Jada (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2014-03-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Brita Rekve, who discusses her work with the Center Against Sexual and Domestic ...
Creator:
Rekve, Brita
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-04-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Brittany V. Hecker shares her experiences of being furloughed for two months from her management position at Panera Bread. She describes how she first learned about COVID-19 and how it impacted her work. She talks about being discouraged for the first week she was furloughed, but soon realized what it was like to have time again. She reflects on...
Creator:
Hecker, Brittany V.
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Brooke Wright shares her perspective as a small business owner of a resort north of Duluth during the COVID-19 pandemic. She discusses how she has increased the cleaning procedures at the resort and changed the check-in process to limit contact, but as a resort with separate cabins, it was already easy to be socially distanced...
Creator:
Wright, Brooke
Contributor:
O'Brien, Chistopher
Created:
2020-07-26
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Bruce Berezovsky discusses information about himself and his family. He talks about where they lived and how involved they were in the synagogue. He also discusses his education at the University of Minnesota where he earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science. He earned a Master's degree in History at the University ...
Creator:
Berezovsky, Bruce
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Bruce Margolis explains how his family came to Minneapolis and the businesses that they started, which included a repair shop and the Margolis Dry Goods Store. He gives a more detailed history of the dry goods store. He also talks about his family tree. His family belonged to Beth El. He goes on to explain his theater career, ...
Creator:
Margolis, Bruce
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Cal Evoniuk is a white male from North Dakota. At the time of this interview, Evoniuk was a student at North Dakota State University. In this oral history, Evoniuk briefly shares his experience of growing up in a rural area, how his identity has changed through time, and his experience with just recently coming out as trans.
Creator:
Evoniuk, Calum
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Candy Harshner, who discusses her work with PAVSA (Program for Aid to Victims of...
Creator:
Harshner, Candy
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-10-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Canyon Carballosa is a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professional dancer, choreographer, and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD)-educated dance instructor. In this oral history interview with Macalester College students H...
Carey McWilliams, regular contributor to Common Ground 1941-1950, interviewed by William Beyer, 24 June 1977 at McWilliams'. Mr. Beyer is interviewing Mr. McWilliams about an editorial magazine named Common Ground. He inquires about how Common Ground was an institution to help publish new authors, mainly immigrant and ethnic authors who otherwis...
Creator:
McWilliams, Carey
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Carla Hamilton shares her experiences living under COVID-19. She shares that when the news first came out about the pandemic, she wasn’t too worried and she traveled to San Francisco. She reveals that she and her son had COVID-19 in March and she describes what that experience was like for them. She mentions that her boyfriend recently got teste...
Creator:
Hamilton, Carla
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-09-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Both Carly Hiti and Kaila Formanek speak about their advocacy and therapy work with PAVSA [Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault] in Duluth, Minnesota and of their personal lives during this time of COVID-19. Carly describes her work as an outreach advocate at PAVSA and Kaila says that she is one of the two therapists that work at PAVSA. ...
Creator:
Hiti, Carly; Formanek, Kaila
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Part of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The name used in the title is a pseudonym created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informati...
Creator:
Sanchez, Carmen
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Caroline Pelzel, who discusses her work with the Aurora Northland Lesbian Center...
Creator:
Pelzel, Caroline
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-12-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Carol Thompson, who discusses her work with Duluth's Domestic Abuse Intervention...
Creator:
Thompson, Carol
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Carolyn Olson recounts her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares that she is staying safely in her home and has been relatively okay during this time. She expresses concern for her two adult twin children, aged 25, who are both essential workers in the Twin Cities. She talks about how guidelines at their workpla...
Creator:
Olson, Carolyn
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-08-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Carter Brown is a Black trans man, activist, and community organizer from Dallas, Texas. Brown is the founder of Black Transmen, Inc., and served as its Director at the time of this oral history interview. He also works with the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC, is highly active in community organizing efforts among Black trans men, and has ...
Creator:
Brown, Carter (interviewee); Stylz, Diamond (interviewee)
Carter Thurmond is a white trans dyke from Louisiana. At the time of this oral history, Thurmond was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Thurmond touches upon their childhood, community building, coming out to family, their gender and sexual evolution, their relationship experiences, combating heteronormativity, and gender...
Creator:
Thurmond, Carter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Catalina Velasquez is a Colombian transgender goddess. At the time of this interview, Velasquez was a political consultant based out of Washington DC. She speaks at length about topics including self-love, feminisms and feminist analysis, xenophobia/nativism, and systems of oppression. She also touches upon her involvement with organizations suc...
Creator:
Velasquez, Catalina
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Cathy Kiana Keiko Kapua is a Native Hawaiian māhūwahine and trans woman, community organizer, and public health advocate based on O'ahu. At the time of this interview, she was Deputy Director of the Trans Justice Funding Project, an organization that distributes grants and other funding to grassroots organizations led by and serving trans commun...
CeCe McDonald is a Black-Boricua-Taíno woman from the South Side of Chicago. At the time of this oral history, she was working in Minneapolis as a barista, activist, and social instigator. In this oral history she talks extensively about her early life in Chicago, the prison industrial complex, the matrix of domination, and the TLGB community. S...
Creator:
McDonald, Chishaun (CeCe)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Chad Pitts is a white transgender man from Arizona. At the time of this oral history, Pitts was a student living in Fargo, North Dakota. In this short oral history Pitts speaks about coming out, his romantic relationships, his family relationships, and transitioning.
Creator:
Pitts, Chad
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Charlene Bradshaw is a Black lesbian born and raised in Hawaii. In this oral history, Bradshaw speaks about his experiences being a Black transgender person in Minneapolis, alongside serving in the military for 22 years. He also touches upon his early childhood experiences of his gender awareness, Don't Ask Don't Tell, being a parent, harassment...
Creator:
Bradshaw, Charlene
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
