Banikarim, Maryam (Part 1)
name: label: Collection Interviewer
content: Allison, David Kite
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content: Velasquez, Steve
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content: Yeingst, William
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.)
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content: Family of Voices Oral History Collection
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content: Family of Voices Oral History Collection / Born-Digital Interviews / Audio Interviews
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content: 45.74 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 00:49:57, audio/mp3)
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content: 2014-11-13
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Oral history interview with Maryam Banikarim, former marketing executive and founder of the strategic consulting practice MaryamB. Originally from Iran, Banikarim recounts her childhood experiences in Iran, France and the United States; fleeing Iran with her family in 1979; balancing a western and increasingly Americanized identity while staying connected to Iran through family, food and Nowruz; strategies for fitting in as a teenager and young adult; attending Barnard College and becoming a New Yorker; reckoning with what it means to identify as American; coming from a line of strong Iranian women; working at Turner Broadcasting System and Univision; raising a multi-cultural family; connecting to family in Iran as an adult; and her Jewish and Iranian wedding.