WHO WE ARE NOW
First-person stories from Americans living through a changing world.
An ongoing project by oral historian and author Michelle Fishburne, documenting what people experience, think, fear, and hope while history is still unfolding.
Artificial intelligence is changing how people work, create, communicate, make decisions, form relationships, and understand what is real. This ongoing national oral history project asks Americans what they are experiencing now—while the changes are happening and before we know what the future they will live in looks like.
First-person stories from a world being changed by AI.
First-person stories from a world being changed by AI.
Who We Are Now documents Americans in their own words during periods of profound change—capturing what life feels like while events are unfolding, and returning later to understand what changed.
Three collections. One continuing question:
— who we are now —
First-person stories from the COVID-19 pandemic.
From September 2020 through September 2021, Michelle Fishburne traveled 12,000 miles all over the U.S., interviewing hundreds of people about their lives during the pandemic. Her award-winning book, Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found During the COVID-19 Pandemic, was published by UNC Press.
