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WiscAMP Legacy Oral History Project

Word cloud logo for WiscAmp (Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation). Includes the following words: Goals, Encourage, Participation, Ideas, energy, oriented, Create, Success, elements, Influence, graduate, cycle, Experience, mentor, industry, Culture, Science, diversity, Technology, biology, data, nuclear, molecular, Dream, Community, path, Innovation, Strength, Dynamic, Career, leadership, Engineering, solutions, Flexibility, Seeker, robotics, Math, Question, Research, vision, mechanical.
Collage of different photographs of WiscAmp related groups and activities. Includes a group photograph and photographs of participants presenting their projects in front of poster boards in a fair-like setting.
Map of Wisconsin showing different Institutions in the following categories: UW system, Private, Technical, Hispanic Serving Institution, and UW Branch Campuses. The following text is at the bottom of the map: On July 1, 2018, UW Colleges officially joined seven four-year UW institutions as branch campuses.

The WiscAMP Legacy Oral History Project was created to document the impact and preserve the history of the Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP) at Wisconsin colleges and universities throughout the state. WiscAMP was established in 2004 with a grant from the National Science Foundation in order to make STEM fields more accessible for underrepresented minority students.

The following interviews were conducted with WiscAMP peer mentors, participants, faculty members, and staff. Narrators describe their participation in the program, as well as how the program impacted their lives, and the role of diversity programs in the STEM field.

Ramon Aguilar-MendozaChristopher BendelAlyssa Hakes
Teonna CookseyCharles BentonDarian James
Steph FonesTawnya CaryIsmael Jaral-Vera
Patricio TinocoEnrique VillasenorMikala Williams
Jennifer ChristusAngela FreyJamie Schneider
Gabriel Zayas-CabanAaliya DuaKobina Intsiful
Anneke LisbergAnique RuizJose Trujillo

Acknowledgements: 

Funding for the development of this oral history project was provided by grant from the National Science Foundation (#1911284) Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. Thanks, too, to Dadit Hayadit, Chloe McClaren, and Oona McNally for their interviewing, processing, and creating this webpage. Last, thanks to the project’s narrators for taking the time to tell their stories.