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Shoebox Stories: UndocuAmerica Series

Shoebox Stories: UndocuAmerica Series

Written by: Motus Theater
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Shoebox Stories is a unique “story-holding” project, where people stand in another person’s shoes by reading aloud their story, saying their words and feeling the weight they carry.


Season #1 of Shoebox Stories - UndocuAmerica is a 12 episode podcast series in which national leaders read the autobiographical stories of young undocumented writers with DACA. Listen to Jorge Ramos, Gloria Steinem, Nicholas Kristof and others read powerful stories from the front lines of immigration policy.

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Episodes
  • Wandering in the Desert

    Wandering in the Desert
    Jan 23 2022

    Art Acevedo is an American police officer who has served as the chief of police for the cities of Houston, Austin and Miami. He reads the story of a young mother with DACA, Laura Peniche, and her attempt to help her fellow Christians understand the impact of anti-immigrant policies on undocumented families.


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    20 mins
  • This Beautiful Dark Brown Skin

    This Beautiful Dark Brown Skin
    Jan 23 2022

    Co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors reads Armando Peniche’s story of the racial profiling he experienced as a 12-year old boy and the danger slanderous rhetoric of mythic criminality poses to the undocumented Mexican community and his own young American son.



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    28 mins
  • Checkpoint at Fantasyland

    Checkpoint at Fantasyland
    Oct 19 2020
    Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo, reads Victor Galvan's story about the overwhelming human rights challenges facing the immigrant community and his insistence, despite his fear and the obstacles ahead, of manifesting his American Dream.

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    26 mins
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