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Memoirs Pasifika

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Producer, Host, & Co-Writer

Memoirs Pasifika is a deeply researched, 7-episode documentary podcast series that uncovers several defining events, movements, and figures of modern Micronesian history.

While the Pacific holds a wealth of globally significant stories, very few audio spaces dive into Micronesia’s past or utilize the region’s rich archival collections. Memoirs Pasifika helps fill this gap by bringing history to life through immersive sound design, rigorous archival research, and firsthand oral histories. Driven by narrative journalism, each episode explores a distinct historical topic told directly by the people who witnessed, shaped, and lived it.

Visit our website to listen and peruse through related archival images, videos, and news articles. Or, stream episodes through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Audible.

A guest speaks into a studio microphone during a Memoirs Pasifika recording A guest listens at a studio microphone during a recording An interviewer records a guest at a studio microphone Guam Daily News, December 31, 1969: men shake hands in Vietnam Front page, January 1, 1970: Welcome to Vietnam, Governor Camacho Archival photograph of soldiers with a child in Vietnam Portrait of Cecilia Cruz Bamba Vietnamese evacuees holding signs on Guam, 1975 Pacific Daily News, April 24, 1975: 50,000 Evacuees To Come To Guam Soldiers on a pier beside a ship crowded with evacuees Evacuees on a 36-hour hunger strike calling for repatriation View of the Orote Point refugee camp on Guam, around 1975 The Courier-News, July 5, 1975: Operation New Life comes to end President Ford signs the Covenant with the Northern Mariana Islands Pacific Sunday News, February 21, 1971: Fire Hits Congress Building, Saipan Threatens To Secede Builders work on the hull of a traditional voyaging canoe A painted sail on a traditional voyaging canoe A Satawal sailor offers a farewell smile to Saipan residents before leaving for Okinawa

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 Christmas Odyssey in Vietnam Feb. 9, 2021 · 23:11
  2. Episode 2 Cecilia Cruz Bamba: Guam’s Champion for Land Claims & War Reparations Mar. 29, 2021 · 28:45
  3. Episode 3 Operation New Life Apr. 27, 2021 · 32:43
  4. Episode 4 Crafting a Covenant: The Founding of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands June 2, 2021 · 40:11
  5. Episode 5 Marriage Equality and LGBTQ Rights on Guam June 25, 2021 · 1:05:58
  6. Episode 6 Revival of Traditional Seafaring in the Marianas (Part I of II) Oct. 26, 2021 · 46:54
  7. Episode 6 Revival of Traditional Seafaring in the Marianas (Part II of II) Nov. 18, 2021 · 38:59
  8. Episode 7 Season Finale (Retrospective) Jan. 25, 2022 · 53:36