Far From Home: Stories of Forced Migration
Join Ameya Desai, a 2-time winner of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge (2024 and 2025), as she explores stories about forced migration as told by those who lived through it.
Produced by Ameya Desai StoryVerse, LLC
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Episodes
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
8 min
In Part 2 of this 3-episode arc, Ameya explores how the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII affected multiple generations. Ameya interviews Dr. Ken Shimizu, an orthodontist in Northern California whose parents were relocated to Heart Mountain Wyoming in the early 1940s, and how their experience informed his upbringing and cultural identity.
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025
7 min
In this second award-winning episode, Ameya interviews Mrs. Linda Horikawa, a retired Japanese-American school teacher from San Jose whose family was relocated to the internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. *Grand Prize Winner of NPR’s 2025 Student Podcast Challenge, Middle School Category*
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
7 min
In her inaugural and award-winning episode, Ameya shares her grandfather's remarkable story of being one of many South Asians who was forcibly exiled from his homeland of Uganda in the 1970s during the brutal reign of President Idi Amin.
*Winner of NPR’s 2024 Student Podcast Challenge in the Fourth Grade Category*