Three friends from Fall River, Massachusetts, use the struggles of second generation Portuguese Americans as inspiration for careers in comedy (contains a handful of instances of mild swears).
Ana Gonzalez
Ana González is the host and producer of Mosaic. She's proudly Puerto Rican and Irish, and loves meeting new people almost as much as she loves meeting new dogs. Before coming to The Public's Radio in 2019, Ana worked with the WHYY Media Labs in Philadelphia and ran her own video production company, EARF. In 2017, she produced and directed a feature-length documentary about hip hop history in Rhode Island, Almost Dope. Ana is a 2015 graduate of Brown University.
If you have a story about immigration in Rhode Island, give her a shout at agonzalez@thepublicsradio.org.
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Ep. 7: Guillermo, A Former Drug Dealer, Fights His Deportation
By the time he was 10 years old, Guillermo knew he wanted to be a drug dealer. At 30, he was sitting in a federal prison in North Carolina, awaiting deportation to the Dominican Republic. *This episode contains explicit language*
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Ep. 6: The Brothertown Fight For Recognition
After settling in Wisconsin, members of the Brothertown tribe are forced to give up their reservation to avoid a government ordered removal to present-day Kansas, setting in motion an unforeseen legal battle their ancestors will fight more than a century later.
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Ep. 5: Journey To Brothertown
Betrayed by his mentor Eleazar Wheelock and wary of all colonists, Samson Occom forms a new American Indian tribe in the mid-1770s and leads his followers on a journey further west.
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Ep. 4: The Betrayal Of Samson Occom
The impact of early European immigration on Native Americans in New England is examined through the story of Samson Occom, a brilliant Mohegan Indian from Eastern Connecticut who gains fame on two continents before his story takes a dramatic and unexpected turn.
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Ep. 3: Roger Williams And The Pequot War
It’s May of 1637, and English armies are preparing to attack a large Pequot fort in Connecticut colony. What happens next will change the relationship between indigenous tribes of New England and colonists forever. And it’s all thanks to Roger Williams.
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Ep. 2: Omar Bah’s Refugee Dream Center
Gambian refugee Omar Bah starts his life over in Providence, Rhode Island, and turns his struggle into a mission to help other refugees.
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Ep. 1: Omar Bah Flees Gambia
Gambian journalist Omar Bah flees his country after the government orders a national manhunt for him, putting Omar’s life at stake.
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What Is Your Family’s Immigration Story?
If you or your family have a story about how you came to live in the USA, we want to hear it!
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Mosaic
Mosaic is a podcast that explores immigration and identity in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, a region that traces the history of American immigration back to the early days of colonization.
