The Queens Memory Project is commissioning life history interviews with activists who identify as female and whose work benefits Queens residents. These interviews will be housed in the Queens Public Library local history collections and featured online in the library's audio/visual archives. The selected interviewer will receive $6000 to conduct ten (10) interviews with activists selected in partnership with the Queens Memory team. Interviews can be in any language and must follow Queens Memory oral history protocols.

During Women’s History Month in March 2022, the Queens Public Library will engage community members across the borough to nominate female activists whose lives they believe should be chronicled in the Queens Memory oral history collections. The interviewer selected for this project will have the freedom to interview any of these nominees or to identify their own subjects. Requirements for this position:

1. Must live and/or work in Queens.

2. Must have previous longform interviewing experience in professional or academic work. Previous oral history experience strongly preferred.

3. Must conduct a minimum of 10 life history interviews with female-identifying activists from Queens. Each interview should be a life history of the activist and between 60-120 minutes in length.

4. Must complete full submission packages for each interview, including audio and video files, photographs of interviewees, fully edited transcripts (with English translations if needed) and complete documentation. Interviews should be 60-120 minutes each and take approximately 18 hours to plan, create and complete.

Application form: https://bit.ly/3ACIusq

Submit specified application materials to queensmemory@queenslibrary.org.