Interview with Rosalyn Pierce : Alumni Stories
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Rosalyn Pierce (AB Human Biology, 1981) speaks about her family history and her grandparents move to the Bay Area as part of the Great Migration. She discusses her family members’ careers in healthcare--her grandmother was one of the first Black physicians in the East Bay--the circumstances that led her to apply to Stanford, and some of the challenges and joys she experienced as a student, including mapping out a concentration in health administration as part of her Hum Bio major with the help of advisor Audrey Bernfield. She recalls her involvement with Ujamaa and the Black Community Services Center (Black House), as well as microaggressions and anti-Black racism that she faced at Stanford. Pierce describes being a founding member of Stanford’s Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter, the first sorority for Black women, and her involvement with the National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE) and Stanford’s Black pre-med organization. Lastly, she speaks about the jobs she held on campus and her work as a hospital administrator and an electronic health records vendor after graduating.
Description
| Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical, text, still image |
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| Extent | 1 audio file; 1 text file; 1 photograph |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | October 22, 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Pierce, Rosalyn | |
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| Creator | Pierce, Rosalyn | |
| Interviewer | Marine-Street, Natalie J. | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University. Students > 1970s |
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| Subject | Stanford University. Students > 1980s |
| Subject | Universities and colleges |
| Subject | College students |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Transcript |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pc958kw7881 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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