Who I Work With:
Families, Seniors, Adult Children

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Seniors

  • Looking to document life stories for their kids and grandkids — but don’t have writing interest or experience

  • Celebrating a birthday or anniversary and want to look back on their joys and accomplishments

  • Wishing to solidify their legacy for children and grandchildren

  • Processing life and work experiences after retirement

  • Living with physical or cognitive limitations, but able to express themselves through storytelling.

  •  I serve seniors in Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, and throughout Contra Costa and Alameda counties and virtually on Zoom.

End-of-Life

  • Terminal patients of any age looking for a neutral person to help them create legacy letters, audio, or video for their loved ones

  • Scholarships available.

  •  I serve people in person in Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, and throughout Alameda counties and virtually on Zoom.

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A multigenerational family portrait featuring four women and a young boy, with the elderly woman seated in the center wearing a traditional red silk dress with floral embroidery, the middle woman standing to her left wearing a cream-colored cheongsam, the young boy to her right wearing a white traditional Chinese outfit with red accents and sneakers, and the woman on the far left also in a light pink dress, all standing against a plain white background.

Adult Children

  • Seeking meaningful gifts for aging parents

  • With kids who want to preserve to teach resilience and a sense of where they are from

  • Wanting professional help because they are too busy

  • Seeking companionship and a meaningful project for their retired parents

  •  Adult children seek me out from around the country to work with their parents, either locally in Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, and throughout Contra Costa and Alameda counties or virtually on Zoom.

Multi-Gen

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  • Grandparents, parents, and adult grandchildren looking to preserve their memories

  • Immigrants who want to have a conversation with multi-generations about their journey and what it meant

  • Family business succession planning

  •  I serve families in Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, and throughout Contra Costa and Alameda counties and virtually on Zoom.

Military

  • Service members who want to remember the defining stories of their lives.

  • Group of service members who want to record their experiences and want happened as both a micro-history and macro-history

  •  I serve military veterans and their families in Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, and throughout Contra Costa and Alameda counties and virtually on Zoom.

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Specific Histories

  • Holocaust survivors and descendants

  • Japanese American internment survivors

  • Chinese immigrant families

  • LGBTQ+ elders documenting their journeys

  • Civil rights activists and Bay Area social justice pioneers

  • Academic families

  • Small business owners documenting entrepreneurial legacies

  • Law firms looking to document their firm history

  •  I serve people in Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, and throughout Contra Costa and Alameda counties and virtually on Zoom.

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