{"product_id":"our-stories-carried-us-here-9781949523225","title":"Our Stories Carried Us Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Eleven storytellers chronicle their journeys from places all over the world--including Guatemala, Chad, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan--to the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach story compellingly details a variety of experiences the individual immigrant or refugee had, highlighting differences between stories that too often are lumped together or not given an opportunity to be heard. Each storyteller was paired with an illustrator from a similar linguistic and cultural heritage. The thoughtfulness of the matches shines through, as every panel authentically conveys the narrators' poignant and emotional memories, highlighting the beauty of their homelands and the cultures they still identify with. The narratives show the struggles and triumphs of acclimating to a new language, culture, and worldview as well as dealing with obstacles like racism and microaggressions...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill strongly evoke both thought-provoking insights and empathy.\"--KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreen Card Voices presents a bold and unconventional collection of first-person stories told and illustrated by immigrants and refugees living across the United States. Stanford scientist, deaf student, indigenous activist, Black entrepreneur--all immigrants and refugees--recount journeys from their home countries in ten vibrantly illustrated stories. Faced by unfamiliar vistas, they are welcomed with possibilities, and confronted by challenges and prejudice. Timely, sobering, and insightful, \u003ci\u003eOur Stories Carried Us Here\u003c\/i\u003e acts as a mirror and a light to connect us all with immigrant and refugee experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRozman, Tea:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tea Rozman, PhD is the founding Executive Director of Green Card Voices. Previously, she has worked for Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network, a New York City non-profit working with immigrants from the Former Yugoslavia. She is an NYU graduate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies and has a PhD in Cultural History, specializing in oral history from the University of Nova Gorica. She is a first-generation immigrant from Slovenia and 2015 Bush Leadership Fellow.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVang, Julie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Julie Vang is a spiritual writer and co-editor of Our Stories Carried Us Here. She graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a Bachelors in Family Social Science and a minor in Asian American Studies. She is Hmong-American with over six years of policy and programming experience.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaczynski, Tom:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tom Kaczynski learned to read English by looking at American capitalist comics in communist Poland. He moved to the U.S. in 1987. His comics have appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading, MOME, and many other publications throughout the years, and were nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2011. Kaczynski is the founder of the independent publishing house, Uncivilized Books.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Green Card Voices","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718796939538,"sku":"9781949523225","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f2aeb3d-f9a6-4c41-bb2c-8379d3a979f4.jpg?v=1759225773","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/our-stories-carried-us-here-9781949523225","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}