Divine Selengbe was born in Congo and has lived in Lewiston for 15 years. She speaks about growing up and working in the area, her family, and her community. She also talks about her religion and church, and the role that language plays in her life.
Deqa Dhalac was the country’s first Somali-American mayor. She moved to Lewiston by way of Atlanta, Georgia. She speaks extensively on community and her involvement with municipal employment and city politics. She also talks about the role of language in her...
Adilah Muhammad is a native of Decatur, Georgia. She moved to Maine in 2001. As a real estate investor, Adilah became interested in the role public policy was playing in the neighborhoods and communities in which she invested. She speaks about that work in addition to...
Lucy Belanger, born in Canada and raised in Lewiston, Maine after a brief period in New Hampshire, speaks in this interview on her and her family’s experience in working with the mills. She talks about growing up and going with her father to work, and becoming a...
In this interview, Hermance, or “Penny,” Drouin speaks about her time working with Knapp Shoe. She explains her experience entering the shoe industry at a young age, her early life in the Lewiston-Auburn area, her children and family life, standards, benefits, and pay...
