Project mentors will train youth participants to collect, archive, and share the underreported stories of survival from one of Santa Ana's most at-risk communities. Santa Ana Public Library will partner with California State University Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center, working through GCAC Artist in Residence Jules Rochielle, CSUF American Studies Lecturer Sharon Sekhon and artist/education Ch
ristina Sanchez, to train teens to collect oral histories from the Townsend/Raitt neighborhood. An additional academic partner on the project will be Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, School of Social Sciences, Assistant Professor, History, School of Humanities and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Chicano-Latino Studies at University of California, Irvine. Chronicles: A Survivors Oral History." The 2013 Community Stories grant comes from Cal Humanities, aimed at documenting the histories of California's people and places.