We are proud to announce that our 2020-2021 OHMA Research Grants have been awarded to current students Taylor Thompson (2020), Liú Chen (2019), and Jennie Morrison (2019). These students will be using the funding to compensate narrators and collaborators, develop websites, and process interviews. You will be able to hear more about their exciting work in upcoming blog posts.

Taylor Thompson is collecting and archiving the narratives of community care organizers in New York City towards a study in liberatory economic models and economic imaginations.The aim of the work is to preserve and promote stories of community care and mutual-aid. An important aspect of community care work and accountable scholarship is solidarity; this grant will help Taylor provide honorariums for her narrators' time and critical storytelling.

Liú (they/them) is currently living on occupied Lenape territory, also known as New York City, with their service dog, Desmond. They are working on their OHMA thesis about family storytelling and communication in East Asian American families, and also serve as an oral history intern at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.

Jennie Morrison will explore the intersections of oral history and social work approaches to listening and social change by facilitating an Oral History 101 training for social workers. Jennie is trained as a social worker, and is particularly passionate about working with children, youth, and families.