In a typical year, hundreds of thousands of people are deported from the U.S. for entering or staying in the country illegally.  A digital storytelling project at UC Davis, called  “Humanizing Deportation,” aims to document their stories.

On this month’s episode, Ph.D. candidate Lizbeth De La Cruz, discusses the project’s goals, how it got started and her experience working as a member of one of the research teams collecting and preserving these stories.