Instructors & Guest Artists, 2012 - 2025
Suzanne Snider (Founder/Director, Oral History Summer School)
Alexandra Kelly Berman (New York Public Library)
Alissa Rae Funderburk (Margaret Walker Center, Black Oral Historian Network)
Ariel (Ari) Mejia (WBEZ, Radio Producer, Sound Artist)
Amy Starecheski (Columbia University)
Armando Estrada (Empower House Radio, San Antonio Public Library)
Ben Harbert (Filmmaker/Musicologist/Musician)
Daniel Cogan (NP, Aspire Health)
Dana Bowen (Sylvan Motor Lodge)
DAO X. TRAN (Voice of Witness, Haymarket Books)
DW Gibson (Journalist/Documentarian, Ledig House/Sangam House)
Dina Zempsky (Memory Loss Initiative, StoryCorps)
Eman Abdelhadi (Everything for Everyone)
Emma Rose Brown (OHSS Archives Director/Instructor, Choreographer, Documentarian)
Enrique “Quique” Rivera (OHSS Staff/Instructor, Kite’s Nest)
Eugenie Mukeshimana (Genocide Survivors Support Network)
Fanny J. Garcia (Voice of Witness, Separated)
Jack Isaac Pryor (Multimedia Artist/Writer)
Jeffrey Lependorf (Music Omi International Residency)
Jeremy Thal (One Beat/Found Sound Nation)
Kenia Hale (Incite)
Laura Checkoway (Filmmaker/Journalist)
Lauren Kelly (Filmmaker/Editor)
Liza Zapol (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
LJ Amsterdam (Ruckus Society, Watershed Center)
M.E. O’Brien (Family Abolition, Everything for Everyone)
Mark Menjivar (Texas After Violence Project, Borderland Collective)
Michael Garofalo (StoryCorps)
Michael Premo (Housing is a Human Right, Sandy Storyline)
Nicki Pombier Berger (Nothing About Us Without Us)
Nina Cooke John (Designer/Architect)
Nora Saks (Educator/Journalist)
Rachel Falcone (Housing is a Human Right, Sandy Storyline)
Rae Garringer (Country Queers, National Council of Elders Oral History Podcast)
Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan (Chinatown Records 華埠錄音)
Ry Garcia-Sampson (MD/MPH Candidate/Diversity Fellow, Brown University)
Sady Sullivan (Columbia University)
Sara Kendall (Kite’s Nest, WGXC)
Sara Sinclair (OHMA, Aryeh Neier Oral History Project, CCOHR)
Sarah Geis (Audio Playground, University of Chicago, Third Coast)
Sarah Kramer (New York Times)
Sarita Daftary (El Puente)
Shannon O’Neill (New York University)
Dr. Shawna Murray-Brown, LCSW-C (Integrative Therapist/Podcast Host)
Sheri Bauer-Mayorga (Good Globe Singing School)
Sophia Dowling (Incite)
Theodore (Ted) Kerr (Author/Historian)
Todd Shalom (Elastic City)
Walis Johnson (Red Line Archive, Multidisciplinary Artist/Researcher)
zavé martohardjono (Multidisciplinary Artist)
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OHSS Staff/Family (2012–2022)
Allison Manuel (OHSS Assistant, 2019, 2020)
Annie Reynolds (OHSS Program Coordinator, 2022–)
Avery Lamb (OHSS Assistant, Outreach, 2015)
Christopher Daly (OHSS Audio Advisor, 2019)
Ciera Dudley (Education Narratives Project Coordinator, 2021–)
Danielle Dulken (OHSS Hudson Production Assistant, 2017)
Emma Rose Brown (OHSS Hudson Archives Coordinator, 2017–)
Enrique Rivera (Care Coordinator/Facilitator, 2025)
Ina Cox (OHSS Chicago/NPHM Archives Coordinator, 2017)
Jennie Morrison (Education Narratives Project Coordinator; Co-Director, 2020–2021)
Karen Gardner (OHSS Assistant, 2013)
Laura Thorne (OHSS Assistant, 2018; OHWS, 2019)
Lauren Kelly (Assistant, 2014; Program Coordinator, 2015; Archive/Production, 2016; Production, 2018)
Lucy Segar (Program Assistant, 2016)
Mary Ellen Lennon (OHSS Chicago Assistant, 2016)
Meral Agish (OHSS Technical Assistant, 2013)
Nico Fuentes (OHSS Assistant, 2020)
Ollie Schwartz (OHSS Alum Assistant, 2025)
Sabine Bernards (OHSS Program Coordinator, 2018–2022)
Samantha Gloffke (OHSS Assistant, 2019, 2020)
Sara Kendall (OHSS Godparent; Assistant, 2012; Outreach, 2012–; Archival Research, 2016)
Sarah Geis (OHSS Chicago/NPHM Coordinator and Production Assistant, 2017)
Walter Hergt (OHSS Documentation)
Yasmin Mitchel (OHSS Chicago Assistant, 2016)
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