Shoebox Stories is a story-holding project where you are invited to stand in another person’s shoes, listen to their story, hear their words, and feel the weight they carry.

A 12 episode series in which a national leader reads the autobiographical story of young undocumented writers with DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

This ground-breaking podcast series invites national leaders to stand in the shoes of a person who is marginalized or who is often misrepresented and read their autobiographical story aloud to see the world through their eyes. Listen to Jorge Ramos, Gloria Steinem, Nicholas Kristof and others reading powerful stories from the frontlines of immigration policy.

Holding another person’s story is both an honor and a responsibility. The reader is entrusted, for a moment, with the struggles, hopes and dreams of another. By reading another’s story, the reader is not saying that they agree with everything the writer says. They are simply agreeing to refrain from judgment and stand for a moment in the shoes of the writer to see things through their eyes.

Through respectfully holding a story different from your own, you expand your understanding of what it means to be human.