At the conclusion of every academic year, the Oral History Center staff takes a moment to pause, reflect on the interviews completed over the previous year, and offer gratitude to those individuals who volunteered to be interviewed. The names below constitute the Oral History Class of 2020. Please join us in offering heartfelt thanks and congratulations for their contributions!
We would also like to take this time to thank our student employees, undergraduate research apprentices, and library interns. It was a unique semester, topping off a busy and productive year, and they continued to come through for us, as they always do. We rely on this team for work that is critical to our operations: research, interview support, and curriculum development; video editing; writing and editing of abstracts, front matter, and transcripts; and more. They’ve even produced articles and oral history performances to share our work with wider audiences. We couldn’t do it without them!
Find these and all our oral histories from the search feature on our home page. You can search by name, key word, and several other criteria.
The Oral History Center Class of 2020
Individual Interviews
Robert L. Allen
Bruce Ames
Samuel Barondes
Alexis T. Bell
Robert Birgeneau
John Briscoe
Willie Brown
George Miller
Michael R. Peevey
Nancy Donnelly Praetzel
Robert Praetzel
John Prausnitz
Zack Wasserman
Bay Area Women in Politics
Mary Hughes
California State Archives
Jerry Brown
Chicano/a Studies
Vicki L. Ruiz
East Bay Regional Park District
Glenn Adams
Ron Batteate
Kathy Gleason
Raili Glenn
Brian Holt
Diane Lando
Mary Lentzner
John Lytle
Beverly Marshall
Rev. Diana McDaniel
Roy Peach
Janet Wright
Economist Life Stories
George Tolley
Getty Trust
Peter Bradley
Kathleen Dardes
David Driskell
Melvin Edwards
Charles Gaines
Kenneth Hamma
Thomas Kren
David Lamelas
Mark Leonard
Richard Mayhew
Howardena Pindell
Michael R. Schilling
Joyce Hill Stoner
Yvonne Szafran
Global Mining
Bob Kendrick
Napa Valley Vintners
David Duncan
Paula Kornell
David Pearson
Linda Reiff
Emma Swain
SF Opera
Kip Cranna
David Gockley
Sierra Club
Lawrence Downing
Aaron Mair
Anthony Ruckel
SLATE
Susan Griffin
Julianne Morris
Yale Agrarian Studies
Marvel “Kay” Mansfield
Alan Mikail
Paul Sabin
Ian Shapiro
Helen F. Siu
Elisabeth Jean Wood
Thank You
Student Employees
Max Afifi
Gurshaant Bassi
Yarelly Bonilla-Leon
Jordan Harris
Abigail Jaquez
Nidah Khalid
Ashley Sangyou Kim
Devin Lizardi
JD Mireles
Tasnima Naoshin
Lydia Qu
Lauren Sheehan-Clark
Librarian Interns
Jennifer Burkhard
Charissa Fitzpatrick
Undergraduate Research Apprentices
Corina (Mei) Chen
Nika Esmailizadeh
Evgenia Galstyan
Emily Keats
Esther Khan
Emily Lempko
Atmika Pai
Samantha Ready
Kendall Stevens