Episodes

Friday Jan 22, 2021
Something I Can't Unsee
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
At the start of the Biden administration and just two weeks after the siege at the U.S. Capitol, how are immigrants responding to this moment? Three senior journalists in the Feet in 2 Worlds network discuss the opportunities and risks, and the trauma they continue to grapple with from the past four years. Carolina González moderates this conversation with Zahir Janmohamed, Maritza L. Félix and Macollvie Neel.

Monday Jan 11, 2021
Finding Joy
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
When Joy, who immigrated to the U.S. from China, finds herself trapped in an abusive relationship, she makes the choice to walk away from the family she thought she always wanted — and rebuild the family she always thought was broken.
This episode was made in partnership with Self Evident: a podcast that challenges the narratives about where we’re from, where we belong, and where we’re going — by telling Asian America’s stories.

Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Laughter and Wisdom from Immigrant Elders
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
We decided to check up on the immigrant elders in our lives to see how they’re surviving the pandemic. What we found was joy, wisdom, life experience and plenty of laughter — from two Italian immigrants in San Francisco, to a Haitian couple in Florida, to a 93-year-old aunt in Bangalore.

Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
On a panel moderated by veteran editor and reporter Carolina González, the creators of “A Better Life?” discuss the inception of our podcast series at the peak of the pandemic. We talk about what kinds of stories we pursued in this season, what informed our decision-making choices as storytellers, and how our reporters dealt with the challenges of being vulnerable during the production process. This panel was recorded on a Zoom Webinar on Dec. 3rd, 2020.

Monday Oct 26, 2020
Bonus: Self Evident's "Here Comes the Neighborhood"
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Our friends at the podcast Self Evident have been reporting on the rise in xenophobic harassment, discrimination, and violence against Asian Americans during the pandemic.
Listen to “Here Comes the Neighborhood,” which dives into the pros and cons of neighborhood watch groups in historic Chinatowns and other Asian immigrant communities across the country.
For more stories of Asian Americans taking action during the pandemic, subscribe to Self Evident wherever you get your podcasts. Visit https://selfevidentshow.com/ to learn more.

Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Desi Voters, COVID-19, and the 2020 Election
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
The vice presidential nomination of Sen. Kamala Harris has made South Asian political power mainstream in the United States. In New Jersey — a state with a large and growing Desi population — differences over religion, culture and national origin make unity difficult to achieve.

Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Call Your Elders: We're Going to Be Okay
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
As an immigrant in New York City, Rosalind Tordesillas has looked to her Tita Margaret Gomez — who came to New York from the Philippines in the ‘70s — as a role model for building a life there. The two New Yorkers remember their own resilience after 9/11, and Margaret offers inspiration for getting through this current moment.

Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Black Immigrants in the Whitest State
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Black residents in Maine make up 2% of the state’s population, but they’re twenty times more likely to get COVID than white Mainers. We hear from two members of the state’s African diaspora — Lewiston councilwoman Safiya Khalid and civil liberties attorney Michael Kebede — about the history of African migration to Maine and how they were transformed by the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Call Your Elders: Hugs from Here
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
After the U.S., India has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. New York City-based Ramaa Reddy calls her 93-year-old aunt Indira in Bangalore to see how she’s doing.

Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Call Your Elders: A Letter to Italy
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
When Covid-19 hit Italy in April, Italian immigrants Sara and Maria were stuck in San Francisco. So the neighbors began reminiscing about all the things — music, bread, Neapolitan scenery — that home meant to them.

Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Rosa’s Story: Undocumented and Unemployed in the Pandemic
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Rosa — an undocumented Mexican immigrant who cleans hotel rooms in Phoenix — lost her income just a few weeks into the coronavirus pandemic. But she quickly fought back. Reporter Maritza L. Félix tells us her story.

Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Call Your Elders: Cooking with Philip and Niki
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Philip and Niki Zias are Greek immigrants living on Long Island. When they first moved to Queens in the 1960s, their home was filled with music, food, and laughter. On this Call Your Elders segment, their granddaughter Anna pays them a visit.

Thursday Sep 03, 2020
The Home Clock
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
When New York City became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, Brooklyn-based producer Beenish Ahmed struggled over whether to visit her parents in Ohio or stay put. Her parents — a landlord and hairdresser who immigrated from Pakistan in the ‘70s — begged her to come home. When Beenish finally decided to go in May, she recorded that journey, and the discoveries she made about her family’s relationship to America.

Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Call Your Elders: Staying at Home with the Barraus
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
In our first Call Your Elders conversation, Haitian-American producer Florence Barrau-Adams checks in on her parents, Monique and Eric, to see how they’ve been making the best of quarantine.

Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
When the coronavirus hit the United States, two immigrants — Heeja and Elsa — wrestled with the same question: should I remain in America, despite the flawed U.S. response, or return to my home country? Having sought a better life in the United States, both women are rethinking their ideas of America and arriving at different conclusions.