Jonathan Hanft is the Ryan White Community Health Program Supervisor in the Hennepin County Public Health Department, leading the Twin Cities metro area's Ryan White Part A program. In this oral history interview, he discusses his initial thoughts about the pandemic as a public health professional, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of the Ryan Whi...
Creator:
Hanft, Jonathan (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-12-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
At the time of this interview, Jonathan Hanft was the Ryan White Community Health Program Supervisor in the Hennepin County Public Health Department, leading the Twin Cities metro area's Ryan White Part A program. Hanft has over twenty-five years of experience in delivering HIV services and administering funds for services. Hanft has been involv...
Creator:
Hanft, Jonathan
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2015-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Jonathan Otis shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon names his preferred news outlets, but says that in the past month or two he has intentionally distanced himself from the news media due to the negativity, choosing instead to listen to music albums, podcasts, or audio books, read books, or work on profes...
Creator:
Otis, Jonathan
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Joseph Brochin gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and World War II veteran. Joe Brochin was born in 1918 and raised on the North Side of Minneapolis where his father operated a store. He discusses how he studied pharmacy at the University of Minnesota, enlisted in the military, and went to the South Pacific in...
Creator:
Brochin, Joseph, 1918-?
Contributor:
Siegel, Diane (Interviewer)
Created:
2005-07-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Leibman's account of his journey to the United states and experiences entering the country, traveling by train to St Paul to join his brother, his first home on the Lower West Side and a detailed description of the neighborhood. A PDF version of the transcript available at http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/pdf-assets/jhs-leibman.pdf
Creator:
Leibman, Joseph
Contributor:
Culben, Clifford (Interviewer)
Created:
1976-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Dog barking at the beginning. Dr. Roucek begins his interview by talking about his early work experiences, including holding a position at New York University. He talks about Louis Adamic and the subject of cultural pluralism. Dr. Roucek touches on his teaching experiences, both as a lecturer and a writer, then later teaching extension courses a...
Creator:
Roucek, Joseph
Created:
1970-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Joy Michael Starkey is a white genderqueer non-binary trans person from Washington. At the time of this interview, Starkley was a PhD student. In this oral history, Starkey speaks at length about starting a Gay-Straight Alliance in High School, their sister, race and gender, working in academia, racism, and being non-binary. They also touch upon...
Creator:
Starkey, Joy Michael
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
At the time of this interview, Juan Jackson was the Manager of the Check Yourself Health and Wellness Center at the High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul. Previously, he worked as a translator, educator, and community health worker and activist in the African American community, focussing mostly on HIV/AIDS prevention and education. In this...
Creator:
Jackson, Juan
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2015-05-14
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 Judith Niemi, who discusses her work with the Northcountry Women's Center and th...
Creator:
Niemi, Judith
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-05
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 Judith Niemi, who discusses the early days of the Women's Studies Department at ...
Creator:
Niemi, Judith
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-05
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 Judith Niemi, who discusses her work with the Woodswomen, a women's outdoors org...
Creator:
Niemi, Judith
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Julienne Brown, also known as “Mizz June”, is a Black trans woman raised in New York. At the time of this oral history, Brown was working as a musician and an actor. In this oral history she speaks at length about her family relationships, her experience with Johovah's Witness religion, and her friends. She also touches upon coming out, dating, ...
Creator:
Brown, Julienne (Mizz June)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-05-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
June Remus, also known as Mama June or Big Mama, is a Black female from Des Moines, Iowa. This is the first of two oral histories the Tretter Collection holds between Jenkins and Remus. At the time of this interview, Remus was a retired caregiver living in Minnesota. In this oral history, Remus speaks at length about respect, the mentorship she ...
Creator:
Remus, June
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
June Remus, also known as Mama June or Big Mama, is a Black female from Des Moines, Iowa. At the time of this interview, Remus was a retired caregiver living in Minnesota. This is the second of two oral histories the Tretter Collection holds between Jenkins and Remus. In this oral history, Remus speaks at length about language and identity, the ...
Creator:
Remus, June
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This video features an interview with two people who are good friends––June Taylor and Isabelle Wedin. June Taylor is a white trans woman from Winston-Salem North Carolina, and Isabelle Wedin is a white woman from Long Island. They both discuss their childhoods, the realizations that they were transgender, and how their wives supported them with...
Creator:
Taylor, June
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-31
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 Karen Diver, who was a founding board member of AICHO, the American Indian Commu...
Creator:
Diver, Karen
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-29
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 Karen Diver, who discusses her work with the Building for Women (later the WE He...
Creator:
Diver, Karen
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-29
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Karen Savage-Blue shares her perspectives, as an artist and art teacher of Ojibwe descent, related to the COVID-19 quarantine. She discusses the changes to education, including how her college suddenly closed in March of 2020 and it felt like an emergency such as a tornado. She describes using her skills as a teacher to adapt and change her teac...
Creator:
Savage-Blue, Karen
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Karen Sunderman, or Karen Sunderman LaLiberte, shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She says that her life and work were first affected by the novel coronavirus during a trip to Arizona in March. She describes her transition to working from home. As a critical consumer of news, and working in the news industry,...
Creator:
Sunderman, Karen
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
At the time of this interview, Karin Sabey was working in the Positive Care Center at the Hennepin County Medical Center as a medical case manager and program manager. Prior to her work at HCMC, Sabey worked as a volunteer educator with Lethbridge AIDS Connection in Alberta, Canada, and as an HIV/AIDS educator in juvenile detention facilities. S...
Creator:
Sabey, Karin
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2016-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Karl Meyer is a white autogynephilic gender non-conforming person from Faribault, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Meyer was a writer and a researcher pursuing what he calls divine-source justice. In this oral history, Meyer speaks at length about his family relationships, encounters with healthcare, sexuality, and spirituality. He also...
Creator:
Meyer, Karl
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kate Bornstein is a white trans non-binary person raised in the Midwestern United States. At the time of this interview, Bornstein was working as an author. In this oral history, Bornstein speaks at length about language and identity, their encounters with healthcare and cancer, language and identity, Caitlyn Jenner and other trans celebrities, ...
Creator:
Bornstein, Kate
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview with Kate Clancy discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predicessor organizations
Creator:
Clancy, Kate
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
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 Kate Regan, who discusses her work with Women's Transitional Housing. Regan begi...
Creator:
Regan, Kate
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-12-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Katharyn shares her experiences of life during this time of COVID-19. She and her husband Michael, who contributed to this interview, traveled for three weeks starting in mid-May. They share the experiences and the challenges they had while on a cross-country road trip during the still early days of COVID-19. They drove through many states to vi...
Creator:
Rolfe, Katharyn; Rolfe, Michael
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathleen Clark is a nurse, Executive Director of the Augsburg Health Commons, and Assistant Professor of Nursing at Augsburg University. In this oral history interview, she discusses nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges therein, the interplay and similiarities between HIV/AIDS, SARS, and COVID-19, healthcare through the...
Creator:
Clark, Kathleen (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview with Kathleen Merrigan on 02/10/16 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Merrigan, Kathleen
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer); Kuhn, Christopher
Created:
2016-02-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
Kathren Kloss shares stories of her time as a busy Incident Command employee at St. Luke’s Hospital and the parent of three teenagers during the COVID19 pandemic. She describes how her work role changed at the hospital from working for Strategy and Innovation to being assigned to the emergency Incident Command structure. This meant she was busie...
Creator:
Kloss, Kathren
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathy McTavish shares her experiences as an artist living and working during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She speaks about the early days when awareness of the novel coronavirus was increasing in the United States and how this impacted her artistic events, deadlines, and interactions. She describes moving her creative work to online format...
Creator:
McTavish, Kathy
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Katie Burgess is a white trans woman, community organizer, social worker, trans activist, and theatre artist based in Minneapolis. At the time of this oral history interview, she was a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Open Flame Theatre, an all-trans theatre ensemble based in Minneapolis and western Wisconsin, and additionally worked as a social wo...
Creator:
Burgess, Katie (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer and project manager); Brenner-Adam, Katherine (transcriber)
Created:
2021-11-16; 2021-11-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Katie Jacobson shared stories about how her life as an active, busy person "highly involved in theater" changed when the quarantine time for COVID-19 began. She described how she had started a new job at Zeitgeist a week before everything changed and shut down, and then was furloughed and lost most of her income sources as theaters and bars clos...
Creator:
Jacobson, Katie; Payne, Nathan (Photographer)
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-07-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kat Purcell is a white (irish famine diaspora) non-binary trans performer, lighting designer, installation artist, producer, director, and street activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they were a Q-STAGE Fellow with 20% Theatre Company, a Twin Cities company promoting experimental work by women and queer and tr...
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 Katrina Tobie, who discusses her work with the Center Against Sexual and Domesti...
Creator:
Tobie, Katrina
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-12-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
