Video recording of Ramona Bennett, Former Chair of the Puyallup Tribal Council, American Indian Fishing Rights Activist, from the 2018 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Beverly Grant, Pierce County Attorney at Law, Retired Pierce county Superior Court Judge Fighting for Employees’ Rights, from the 2018 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Diane Clarkson, Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor, President of Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association, from the 2017 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Danica Miller, of the Puyallup Tribe, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma, from the 2017 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Kurt Olsen, President and CEO of Envision Innovation, from the 2017 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Amanda Figueroa, Senior Director of Student Transitions & Success, University of Washington Tacoma, from the 2019 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Kimberly Keith, Executive Director, Hilltop Artists, from the 2019 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Almahz Negash, Electrical Engineer/Power Analyst, Tacoma Public Utilities, from the 2019 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Jaleesa Trapp, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, from the 2019 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Tamiko Nimura, Japanese American Historian and Freelance Writer, from the 2018 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Lin Zhou, President & CEO, Bates Technical College, from the 2019 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video of the WILLO Fourth Annual Storytelling Festival in a shortened format.

This is a promotional literacy video for the Hilltop Library Planning Committee. This video was first put into Northwest ORCA database in the Northwest Room (NWR) repository on June 19, 2021, at 5:37 PM. It has been transferred to the Community Archives Center repository where a collection for the Hilltop Library Planning Committee has been created.

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Video recording of Pamela Transue, President Emeritus, Tacoma Community College, from the 2015 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Oral history interview with Tacoma resident Sulja Warnick conducted by dindria barrow on April 6, 2023. In this interview, Sulja shares some of her life’s work as a public school teacher in the Tacoma Public Schools and with the Korean Women’s Association (KWA). Her journey is one of many places and many connections. The success she co-created has spanned countries and served thousands of people. For example, KWA started as a small social club for Korean women and has expanded to a non-profit organization that provides education, affordable housing, in-home care for seniors, and social services, including domestic violence counseling. KWA has offices in 14 Western Washington counties, serving up to 150,000 people of 40 nationalities and 35 language groups. The organization is now 51 years old. Please enjoy Sulja’s oral history interview as well as her collection of images and documents covering her life and the life of KWA.