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#WeAre1924 | MOHAMMAD ALKURD | 100 Portraits for 100 Years: Celebrating American Immigrants

Team UPRS

WHAT IS YOUR IMMIGRATION STORY? My family moved here in 1991, it was me, my mom and my dad. We immigrated here from Gaza, Palestine as a way to get...

#WeAre1924 | GABRIELLE STEIB | 100 Portraits for 100 Years: Celebrating American Immigrants

Team UPRS

WHAT IS YOUR IMMIGRATION STORY? My Dad is from New Orleans. My mom's side came from Nicaragua and Mexico. They came during the dictatorship. My Great Grandpa basically knew that...

#WeAre1924 | BLUE KIM | 100 Portraits for 100 Years: Celebrating American Immigrants

Team UPRS

WHAT IS YOUR IMMIGRATION STORY? I am first generation. My parents immigrated to the States essentially looking for a better future. My mom used to work at the Korean embassy...

#WeAre1924 | JACK CODGILL | 100 Portraits for 100 Years: Celebrating American Immigrants

Team UPRS

WHAT IS YOUR IMMIGRATION STORY? I'm half Japanese, half white. My mom, who is full Japanese, her grandparents came from Japan to the US. They came around the early 1900s...

#WeAre1924 | STEPHANIE WALMET | 100 Portraits for 100 Years: Celebrating American Immigrants

Team UPRS

WHAT IS YOUR IMMIGRATION STORY? I was born to a single mother in Korea in 1982. And this is all background that's been told to me through my adoption papers...

#WeAre1924 | RUTH JANELLE NGUYEN | 100 Portraits for 100 Years: Celebrating American Immigrants

Team UPRS

WHAT IS YOUR IMMIGRATION STORY? My dad came over from Vietnam during the war when he was 10. His mother and father put him and his sister on an airplane...