Queens Memory #StopAsianHate Podcast

FAIN: ZDH-283747-22

Queens Library (Jamaica, NY 11432-5242)
Natalie Milbrodt (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2024)

The work of over 50 Asian American humanities professionals from a variety of community organizations in Queens, NY and from the Queens Borough Public Library in the creation of a 10-episode podcast season on the Asian American experience. 

In this moment of social reckoning, as we reconsider the history of Asians in America, Queens Borough Public Library proposes to use the production of a 10-episode Queens Memory podcast season to deepen existing partnerships and create new relationships with Asian American service organizations, activists, scholars and community members who will play a strong editorial role in the development of the podcast. The project will draw existing oral history collections out of the library's archives and into professionally produced podcast episodes, which will increase awareness and use of these valuable and often under-utilized archival resources. It will also develop the talent and professional credentials of the Asian American media professionals hired for their professional skills and of membership in the communities featured in these episodes.