Each student’s time at Bronx Community College (BCC) is unique, yet all students are bound to each other by the shared sense of struggle towards achieving a college education. Trained in video production and oral history methods, students examined the challenges faced by low-income, working-class groups of peer students from various ethnic, racial, and immigrant backgrounds, groups that BCC is dedicated to serving and who have been historically underrepresented in higher education. The interviews where then deposited to BCC’s online archive. These stories also help inspire resiliency among BCC students by showing positive examples of overcoming adversity to attain a college education. This project was made possible by a 2016-2017 Presidential grant from Bronx Community College, CUNY.

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