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Miami Valley StoryCorps

Miami Valley StoryCorps interviews are the result of WYSO’s collaboration with StoryCorps, the national oral history collection project that visited Dayton in the spring of 2010 and 2014. All the Miami Valley StoryCorps segments consist of interviews between two local residents.

Miami Valley StoryCorps: Ginger and Carmen Osenbaugh

WYSO | By Mojgan Samardar, Ph.D.

Published December 31, 2014 at 6:44 AM EST

On Miami Valley StoryCorps we bring you conversations between two local people - who went to the StoryCorps booth in Dayton last spring. Today we meet 11 year old Ginger Osenbaugh who spoke with her mother Carmen about how their family has been coping with Ginger's diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

This interview was edited by Community Voices producer Mojgan Samardar.

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Mojgan Samardar, Ph.D.

Mojgan started her full-time work after completing a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence. After a very successful 28 year career as a technical geek, she retired in 2017. While working she attended community voices weekend classes in 2014 and graduated as a Community Voice producer for WYSO Public Radio in Yellow Springs, Ohio. After retirement, Mojgan’s turned to the arts and volunteering activities. She proposed creating community voices stories to highlight immigrants’ voices and contributions in the Miami valley. Her first season production of “The Bind that Ties” in 2020 won first prize in the Radio Documentary of the Associated Press. Season two of the series was broadcast in 2022.

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