Shoebox Stories: UndocuAmerica Series
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Shoebox Stories is a unique “story-holding” project, where people stand in another person’s shoes by reading aloud their story, saying their words and feeling the weight they carry.Season #1 of Shoebox Stories - UndocuAmerica is a 12 episode podcast series in which national leaders read the autobiographical stories of young undocumented writers with DACA. Listen to Jorge Ramos, Gloria Steinem, Nicholas Kristof and others read powerful stories from the front lines of immigration policy.

Checkpoint at Fantasyland

Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo, reads Victor Galvan's story about the overwhelming human rights challenges facing the ...
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The Most Beautiful Monument

Award-winning actor, author, musician and singer, John Lithgow, reads the story of Irving Reza, a DACAmented political science major who uses humor to...
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Listen to Your Heart

Maria Hinojosa is the lead anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and the founder of Futuro Media. She reads the story of Tania Chairez - a soci...
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Deport Me

José Andrés is an internationally-recognized culinary innovator, New York Times bestselling author, educator, television personality, humanitarian, an...
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I Was Made for the Light

Nicholas Kristof is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and writes an o...
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Returning Home

Activist and writer, Gloria Steinem reads Kiara Chavez’s tender story of flying home to Mexico for the first time since she was age four to see her ai...
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The Meaning of Courage

Jorge Ramos is a Mexican-born American journalist and author. Regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States of America,...
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