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MARCH 2, 2010

They've kindly given us permission to host this stream of a conversation between Dr. Pedro "Joe" Greer and his wife, Janus, about how Dr. Greer started working with Miami’s homeless. With more than 500,000 stories like these hosted on the StoryCorps website , the organization is essentially continuing the tradition of oral history in the U.S., This post is part of a series highlighting TechSoup member organizations' achievements.

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APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. I was teaching in high schools in Miami and the Bronx and San Francisco for some time, and really wanted to be around young people, especially during their high school years, which I thought was an interesting time of their political development.

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