GARY PAOLUCCI

1. What is your name and where are you from?

2. Is there anything in particular you would like to focus on or talk about today?

3. Where do you currently live? town/state

4. What type of job or jobs do you have?

5. What does your family/household look like? Who do you live with? How many people? Siblings? Parents? Grandparents?

6. What are your interests/hobbies?

7. What was your life like in Colombia?

8. What was your day to day life like?

9. What was your education like growing up?

10. Why did you and your family decide to leave Colombia? What aspects factored into your decision? Did you leave any family behind?

11. What was the process of leaving Colombia like? How did you travel to get to the United States?

12. What did you imagine America would be like before you came here? How is it different/the same?

13. Did anyone help you along the way?

14. What did you bring with you? What did you leave behind?

15. How did you learn English?

16. Have you faced discrimination being in the US based on your background?

17. What is your life like now?

18. How has your experience with the “Boys and Girls” club been?

19. How has your experience with the UMASS Medical school been?

20. Do you think you’ll return to Colombia one day?

21. Have you faced discrimination being in the US based on your background?

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Group Responsibilities:

Interviewer: Johanna Walsh

Filmer: Gary Paolucci

Note Taker: Jamie Volpe