A Brief Hisory of HAND in HAND

HAND in HAND Productions, where hand in hand we tell and preserve life stories , is unique in that it produces oral histories and more. HAND in HAND has been innovative in taking primary oral history documents to expand their value by finding innovative ways to use them for education.

HAND in HAND has used oral history for qualitative research, workshop presentations, educating youth, museum storyboards, audio kiosks, videos, and publishing a collection of oral histories in a richly illustrated book. HAND in HAND is committed to working with individuals in preserving their own, as well as their family's, community's, or organization's stories-in preserving and sharing history.

HAND in HAND Productions was created in 1996 by Kateleen Jill Hope Cavett and John Mark Harrington to conduct Minnesota oral history gang research to address the epidemic problem of girls' and boys' lives being lost in the street gang culture. They incorporated as a Minnesota not-for-profit corporation in May 1996 and received their IRS 501(c) 3 designation in late 1996.

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