Leah Scharlott Oral History

When I first approached Leah, I told her this was an interview about her affective experience living in Coralville. While this is always true for all my interviews, I also focus on the narrator’s life story outside of Coralville. As a city located in close proximity to the University of Iowa, Coralville’s residents often come from different places around the country and world. In that spirit, we also discussed her life experiences as a Korean adoptee in her home state in Kentucky, her time as a college student in Ohio, and how all these different elements of her life influence how she lives in Coralville today. After our interview, Leah told me she didn’t expect to talk about all these things in this interview, but she appreciated that she got the chance to connect all these elements of her life together in one interview.