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Item Ahmad Kaki Interview(2022-12-21) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Ahmad Kaki, a legal assistant and law student in Arlington, VA. Ahmad describes growing up Palestinian and Muslim in Texas and how his life changed after 9/11. He talks about his college experiences of involvement in the Muslim Students Association and pro-Palestine organizing. Ahmad shares the trajectory of his career, which brought him to law school and his current work as a legal assistant with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.Item Amanda Martinez Beck Interview(2021-12-02) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Amanda Martinez Beck, a fat liberation activist living in Marshall, TX. Amanda talks about the work that online activism involves, such as social media engagement, podcasting, and writing for various platforms. She discusses the problems of language in her activism, like the negative connotations many people have with concepts like fatness and disability. Amanda also explains how her conversion to Catholicism and exposure to incarnational theology helped her learn to celebrate her body and the bodies of others.Item Amanda Veasy Interview(2022-02-18) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Amanda Veasy, co-founder of One Love Longview, a nonprofit resource center for unsheltered, uninsured, and underserved populations. Amanda talks about the rapid rise of her organization as a response to community needs for accessible mental and physical health care. She describes the changes in her religious experiences over time, including being spurred to leave the church over her unwillingness to condemn the LGBTQ+ community. Amanda also talks about her methods of helping effectively by putting the individual’s desires and consent first and about the strength of her value of southern hospitality.Item Amro Eltayeb Interview(2022-10-01) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Amro Eltayeb, an engineer in San Antonio, Texas. Amro talks about childhood memories like his father’s business and the ways his family supported his education. He tells the story of his education in mechanical and software engineering and his early work experiences developing off-road wheelchairs. He also describes his current project of designing a note-taking app. Amro also shares about the moral decisions he has had to make in his career and how Islam has influenced his sense of ethics.Item Avery Wright Interview(2022-06-10) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Avery Wright, a theater educator living in San Marcos, TX. Avery talks about growing up in College Station and living cautiously as a young transgender man. He compares these experiences to his time at Texas State, where he became involved in the student organization Bobcat PRIDE. Avery describes his leadership role in Bobcat PRIDE and the educational and entertainment events that he and the organization hosted.Item Caregiving in Central Texas : the role of adult day centers(2018-05-01) McZeal, Corey James; Angel, Jacqueline Lowe; Choi, Namkee; Ekland-Olson, Sheldon; Hinton, Ladson; Shapira, HarelDuring the 20th century, improvements in medical care and quality of life resulted in greatly increased life spans for all groups in the United States and elsewhere. The result has been an increase in the number of years in which one enjoys good health and a high level of functioning. However, aging populations also result in an almost inconceivable increase in the prevalence of those suffering from dementia. As the number of individuals who survive into their eighties and nineties increases, the burden of dementia care increases for families and society. In this dissertation I examine the sources of care of older individuals with dementia, paying particular attention to the role of adult day center (ADC) in relieving the burden of dementia care for families. Previous research shows that in the majority cases of families provide extensive informal care for an individual with dementia, but the demands of this task can cause tremendous strain due to the nature and progression of the disease. Due to an increase in women’s labor force participation since the 1960s, the supply of individuals free to provide unpaid care has shrunk, and those who do provide this care have less time to devote to it. This may lead to role strain, where conflict arises due to the competing demands of having multiple roles. Many families in this situation decide to utilize adult day care to help cope with this burden. ADC is particularly appealing since it provides many support services without the steep cost of nursing homes. Through in-depth interviews and field observation, my project investigates the increased prevalence of ADCs and outsourced care for individuals with dementia through three lenses: first, I analyze the micro-level dynamics of these family units and whether ADCs and caregiving literacy specifically help to reduce conflict, strain, and disorganization. Additionally, I examine the pathways into the caregiving career and ADC utilization. Finally, I present the concept of “caregiving literacy,” exploring how caregivers further this knowledge, how it influences ADC utilization, and the role that ADCs play in the acquisition of further caregiving literacy.Item Carrie Holley-Hurt Interview(2021-08-05) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Carrie Holley-Hurt, a seminarian studying at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Carrie tells the story of her history of activism and involvement, including her current work tracking and speaking out against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Texas. She talks about how parenting a queer child has informed her fight for equal rights and gender affirming care for trans people. Heather also shares her experiences of both admiration for her child and fears for their safety.Item Chanda Parbhoo Interview(2022-10-17) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Chanda Parbhoo, an Indian-American organizer and immigrant from South Africa who lives in Dallas, TX. Chanda compares her early experiences of ethnic integration in Canada with her experiences of apartheid in South Africa. She also shares the challenges and prejudice her family experienced in Canada and the States. She describes the influence of her father’s business ventures and values on her childhood and career. Chanda talks about her activism for representation in her school district and for AAPI voting empowerment.Item Chas Moore Interview(2022-03-31) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Chas Moore, founder of the Austin Justice Coalition and anti-racist activist in Austin, TX. Chas shares his story of exposure to deaths and incarceration at a young age and how those traumas shaped his beliefs and drive as an organizer. He talks about being directly exposed to overt racism for the first time in Austin and getting heavily involved in the city’s anti-racism organizing movement. Chas shares how the work of influential Black thinkers and activists as well as his faith have guided his activism. He also discusses challenges like funding, his goals for long-term change, and his hopes for a happier and more peaceful human experience. Content Warning: The following interview contains sensitive material. Please note that the interview includes discussion of anti-Black racial slurs. These subjects will be discussed at 6:15-7:20 (in the transcript p. 2).Item Daniele Volfe Interview(2022-09-22) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Daniele Volfe, a Brazilian immigrant and immigration attorney in McKinney, Texas. Daniele describes coming to the US with her husband, a pastor, and her family’s process of getting settled in Texas. She talks about her education and her decision to become an immigration attorney. She shares her relationship with her Brazilian culture and compares it with her daughters’ experiences of their heritage.Item Elizabeth Melton Interview(2023-04-13) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Elizabeth Melton, the public engagement director at IDCL, from Crumpler, NC. Elizabeth describes her childhood in Longview, TX, where she was surrounded by her extended family with deep ties to public education and the Presbyterian Church (USA). She shares how her childhood involvement in theater eventually led to her PhD in performance studies. Elizabeth talks about her experience of the Texas Freeze of 2021. She also discusses her complicated relationship to Texas as both a beloved home and site of political strife.Item Emily Nash Interview(2021-08-20) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Emily Nash, a case manager and aspiring social worker in Austin. Emily reflects on her upbringing, including growing up lower class and the influences that caused her to pursue social work as a career. She discusses her current job as a case manager for elderly and disabled clients in Austin. Emily talks about how the Texas Freeze impacted the health and safety of her clients, as well as its impact on her own mental health and the state at large.Item Emmad Mazhari Interview(2022-06-16) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Emmad Mazhari, a software designer and photographer living in Houston, TX. Emmad talks about his childhood in Pakistan and his move and adjustment to the United States. He talks about his relationships to the places he has lived as well as his relationship to his Pakistani Muslim culture. Emmad describes the artistic projects he is planning and working on and shares some of his artistic inspirations.Item Family structure and family dynamics : examining resources for college entry and success(2006-08) Nybroten, Kathleen Ann; Muller, ChandraThis study investigates the influence of family structure during adolescent on college entry and success using the more recently available Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS) data of the High School and Beyond (HS&B) sophomore cohort to predict college entry, baccalaureate degree completion, and persistence in the science, math, technology, and engineering pipeline at the collegiate level. I propose that family structure not only influences adolescents' preparation for higher education, but also their ability to commit to and persevere within higher education. While traditional studies of student achievement and persistence have focused on socioeconomic status or academic ability, I explore family dynamics in attempting to explain the disadvantage adolescents from non-intact families experience within higher education. While controlling for family income and parents education, this study specifically explores parental involvement, parent's educational aspirations, and family disruption as potential mechanisms that might account for the disadvantage adolescents from non-intact families experience in terms of higher education. The findings in this study indicate that single parent families and stepparent families should be analyzed as distinct groups for greater accuracy and understanding. Moreover, parental involvement, turbulence, and parental expectations as measured in high school influence the life course of young adults in their postsecondary pursuits. The present study contributes significantly to our understanding of families, family processes and higher education conceptually, and its findings have implications for education policy.Item Hadi Jawad Interview(2023-04-05) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Hadi Jawad, an activist in Dallas, TX. Hadi shares memories of growing up in Pakistan and coming to the US for college. He talks about his business and how he began activism work against US military involvement in Iraq. Hadi describes the impacts of post-9/11 Islamophobia on his community and his own interactions with the FBI.Item Isa Parada Interview(2021-11-08) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Imam Isa Parada, a Latino Muslim leader with IslamInSpanish. Isa talks about growing up in New York City and Houston, the popular culture of his youth, and being involved in criminal activity as a teen. He tells the story of wanting to make a change in his life for the better, exploring Islam, and converting at the age of twenty. Isa describes the struggles of converting, such as his family’s initial concern and prejudice, as well as the joys, such as meeting his wife and studying in Saudi Arabia. He goes on to discuss the origin and growth of IslamInSpanish.Item Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher Interview(2022-01-25) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Jaime “Mujahid” Fletcher, founder of IslamInSpanish. Jaime shares about his youth, during which he was involved in gang activity in Alief then developed his value of education in Colombia. After his conversion to Islam at twenty-three, Jaime began to translate Islamic literature and thought into Spanish so his Latino family and community could better understand Islam. Jaime goes on to describe the growth of IslamInSpanish from its inception as a family project to its current state as a vibrant community in the Centro Islamico in Alief. He also discusses the social justice projects IslamInSpanish is involved in and shares his advice for working toward social change.Item Jennifer Kamara Interview(2022-08-05) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Jennifer Kamara, an engineer living in Houston, TX. Jennifer describes the various cultural and religious influences on her life, such as the countries she has lived in, the Christian traditions she has been exposed to, and her marriage. She talks about her relationship with her husband and navigating an inter-religious, intercultural marriage. Jennifer also talks about her activity in supporting diversity in her workplace and gives her perspectives on prejudice and stereotypes.Item Jessica Disla Interview(2022-02-25) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Jessica Disla, a member of the IslamInSpanish community and an aspiring teacher. Jessica talks about growing up and family dynamics in a Dominican-American family in Dominican Republic and New York City. She shares her journey in her career and education and is currently working towards her bachelor’s in education in order to teach ESL. She discusses spiritual seeking and asking difficult questions about religion, and how her curiosity eventually led to IslamInSpanish and her conversion to Islam. Jessica describes her love for the IslamInSpanish community and the many ways she participates in it.Item Jin-Ya Huang Interview(2022-10-27) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Jin-Ya Huang, an artist and immigrant from Taiwan living in Dallas, TX. Jin-Ya describes her childhood in Taiwan and memories of the stark differences between her mother’s and father’s families. She shares about coming to the States, including the challenges of her parents’ career changes and working in family restaurants. Jin-Ya talks about influences on her life both good and bad, from keeping her cultural traditions to experiencing intergenerational trauma. Content Warning: The following interview contains sensitive material. Please note that the interview includes discussion of domestic violence. This subject will be discussed at 14:52-15:43 (in the transcript p. 5) and 17:17-18:45 (in the transcript p. 6). The interview also includes reference to an anti-Asian racial slur. This subject will be discussed at 44:04-44:22 (in the transcript p. 12).
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