Cameron Vanderscoff (2013)

Cameron Vanderscoff is an oral historian and educator whose practice is grounded in the creative, executive, and interpersonal skills necessary to take story initiatives from idea to execution. He has worked with Columbia University, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the University of California, the Apollo Theatre, and many other institutions, advancing innovative qualitative research projects, personal and family memoirs, community history efforts, and other narrative-based ventures. With an extensive track record of public and private partnerships and a versatile project portfolio, Cameron has worked and consulted widely in the U.S. and in countries across three continents, including his ongoing collaboration on historical dialogue in Okinawa, Japan with the Okinawa Memories Initiative. Back home in New York, he is the co-director of the Summer Institute of the Columbia Centre for Oral History, and recently served as the co-chair of the 2017 Oral History & The City conference. He is a consultant and interviewer for the Narrative Trust, a leading private oral history firm.

In addition to his field experience, Cameron holds an MA in oral history from Columbia University and two BAs from UC Santa Cruz. He also works as a musician and is developing a new documentary about the intersection of jazz and veterans’ issues in Harlem.

Ryan White (2008)

A native of suburban New Jersey, in 2000, Ryan White earned a BA from St Lawrence University in Multidisciplinary Studies focusing on the effects of Globalization in Latin America and Social Movements.  After graduating, he became deeply involved in what is referred to as the Anti-Globalization Movement from Vermont where he was living.  This is where his interest in radio and independent media began.  The interest in radio is what eventually lean him to Columbia's Oral History MA.  Ryan took his movement experience and applied it to his thesis which was based on interviews conducted with six individuals involved in that movement.  After graduating from Columbia, Ryan returned to his home in Portland, OR where he is in the process of developing a small oral history business.

Sara Wolcott Weinberg

Sara Wolcott Weinberg holds a Master's Degree from NYU in Trauma and Violence as well as a Master's Degree from Columbia in Oral History.  At Columbia, she was finally able to merge her interests and complete a project she began in Rwanda in 2008, where she interviewed survivors of the 1994 genocide.  She is currently a freelance editor at Chime for Change, an administrative coordinator at the Child Mind Institute, and has two oral history projects in the works.  

Erica Zora Wrightson (2014)

Born in Pasadena, California, Erica Zora Wrightson has worked as a journalist, writer/editor, and arts administrator for newspapers and magazines, museums, and nonprofits around Los Angeles. Her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have been published in the L.A. Weekly, L.A. Times, Pasadena Magazine, and Slake: Los Angeles. While pursuing her B.A. in literature and poetry at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara, she spent a year in South Africa, studying poetry in Durban and documenting the stories of a group of women in Cape Town living with HIV/AIDS. Her research interests include regional cuisines, ethnomusicology, and narrative medicine.

Liza Zapol (2010)

Liza Zapol is an educator, oral historian, and screenwriter. Liza is the Director of the Pedagogy of Listening Lab at Columbia University. She teaches oral history at Columbia University with Nicki Pombier, and taught at Yale’s Public Humanities Program and The New School. Liza was a teaching artist for several years in the New York City Public School System. 

Zapol has been honored to interview over 100 artists and cultural workers. Zapol was Secretarial Scholar at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art where she focused on creating oral history projects of underrepresented artists, specifically Latinx artists, Black women artists, and Native American women artists. She has created oral history projects for the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and Massachusetts General Hospital, and many other organizations.

Liza is in development with two feature films she wrote with Annette Leddy about groundbreaking women artists. 

Liza earned a certificate in Physical Theatre from the London International School of Performing Arts, and a certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she was also a dramatic librarian. B.A. with Honors from Northwestern University. M.A. in Oral History at Columbia University.