Jill Russell adopted her daughter Sophia, from China, on Jill's 50th birthday. They discuss Jill's feelings that day and what they both have learned in the ensuing years.
Bob is a host for JazzWorks. Bob has been working in different areas of the radio industry for 33 years. He thinks “public radio is a forum for ideas and entertainment unavailable on commercial radio and that makes it indispensable.” Bob is a lifelong Pittsburgher who married and raised both of his children in his home city.
Kelly Organ talks with StoryCorps facilitator Vera Carothers about what it was like as a northerner attending a historically black college in the South.
Henry Reese and his wife Diane Samuels talk about co-founding City of Asylum-Pittsburgh, which provides sanctuary for writers in exile, and how it has…