April 07, 2008
Coming to America: Immigrant Stories
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales about leaving, arriving, and struggling to make a new home in this strange place called Baltimore.
Presented in partnership with The Jewish Museum of Maryland’s Second Annual Herbert H. & Irma B. Risch Memorial Program on Immigration
Storytellers
Terrylynn Tyrell
special education advocacy and policy consultant
William Wright
artist, and therefore chauffeur
Jason Gerson
public health researcher
Mario Rolando Diaz
driver
Meera Kapoor
student nurse
Inge Weinberger
former director, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Mamadou Sy
program coordinator, Baltimore Resettlement Center
Peter Nobel
catering director
Martha Weiman
audience storyteller
Lisa O'Reilly
audience storyteller
Maryrose Whelley
audience storyteller
Sara Reilly ring thrower