An $18,300 grant to India Cultural Center awarded by Connecticut Humanities will enable a two-year digital archiving initiative to preserve the oral history projects created through My Story, Our Future, a teen oral history program.
The My Story, Our Future 2024-2025 Cohort with Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and Senator Richard Blumenthal at the Celebration and Exhibition Opening on Feb. 2, 2025, at Greenwich Historical Society. Photo: Jamie Collins Photography
Launched in 2022, My Story, Our Future is a collaboration between India Cultural Center, UConn’s Asian & Asian American Studies Institute, and Greenwich Historical Society. The program empowers South Asian American teens to explore their individual and collective heritage and document untold family history for the next generation of students and scholars.
South Asian American stories have long been excluded from U.S. history books and curricula, and the experiences of South Asians in Connecticut have remained largely untold. This project contributes new narratives to Connecticut’s history by publicly sharing and preserving these stories in the CT Digital Archive and compiling them into a public-facing catalog of South Asian history in Connecticut as collected by ICC teens.
My Story, Our Future will run its fourth cohort this fall. If you are interested in participating or learning more, visit www.iccgreenwich.org/
India Cultural Center is a non-profit organization that celebrates the arts and culture of India, with a mission to foster inclusion by educating and engaging the community in Indian culture. Programs are targeted towards both the Indian American diaspora and the community at large. ICC serves the communities of Fairfield CT and Westchester NY.
Connecticut Humanities (CTH) is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. CTH connects people to the humanities through grants, partnerships, and collaborative programs. CTH projects, administration, and program development are supported by state and federal matching funds, community foundations and gifts from private sources. Learn more by visiting cthumanities.org.