Lily Doron (2019)

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Lily Doron is an oral historian, audio and podcast producer, curator, and storyteller. She graduated from Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) program in 2021. Previously, she produced and edited "Wavemaker Conversations," an interview-based podcast, and earned a B.A. in ethics, human rights, and documentary studies from Duke University. Lily has completed oral history projects on themes ranging from refugee migration, to nietos recuperados (infants kidnapped by the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s), to the fight for a fifteen-dollar minimum wage, to beekeeping. She has also collaborated with non-profit organizations on public history projects on conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, the history of the Human Rights Campaign, refugee resettlement, and more. Her OHMA thesis examined how storytelling practices in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) impact AA members’ identity and understanding of themselves. She is interested in mobilizing personal narratives for social justice and community-building. Lily is from Durham, North Carolina, and enjoys traveling, cooking, listening to audio documentaries, and playing ultimate Frisbee.