by Jack Doppelt | Jun 14, 2020 | Back Home, Good Question, Work, Jobs and Money
By Chloe Jeonghyun Heo, Medill, Immigrant Connect At the beginning of April, KANU (Koreans Association at Northwestern University) distributed disposable masks to anyone who applied for one. “[At that time], a lot of Koreans were going back to Korea,” said an...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Back Home, Family, Our Staff
Lydia Rivers, Medill, Immigrant Connect I watch raindrops roll down the windshield from the passenger seat as my mother drives down the highway on another dark winter day in the Pacific Northwest. The radio plays quietly, muffled by the downpour and our loud...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Back Home, Family, Our Staff
Bailey Pekar, Medill, Immigrant Connect The heart of our home is in the kitchen, where my grandfather and I sit at the table in the late afternoon. In front of him is his prized wooden cutting board, with its fancy scalloped handle, laden with peaches that he slices...
by danabrozostkeller | Nov 21, 2018 | Back Home, Our Staff
By Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Medill, Immigrant Connect I run into Lilia at our neighborhood grocery store, expecting the usual embrace. We are the only people in the frozen food aisle. I’m in high school at the time and she’s a housekeeper, who lives and works in...
by Jack Doppelt | Nov 18, 2017 | Back Home, Family, Learning the Language
By Natalya Carrico, Medill, Immigrant Connect I’m 13 or 14 years old, at one of our family reunions. I ask Grandpa if he can still speak Ukranian. He chuckles and says a few words, his sister joining in. The words make no sense to me, but the cadence is...
by Jack Doppelt | Nov 18, 2017 | Back Home, Family, Identity
By Sydney Boles, Medill, Immigrant Connect [A fuller version of this story can be found on Autostraddle – I Met My Sperm Donor’s Mom and It Changed Everything] The old woman bustles from bookshelf to bookshelf in her musty but comfortable basement. Her fingers...
