The digitized collection is made up of women from a diverse cross-section of cultural and ethnic social service organizations including activists from Arab-American, Haitian, Hispanic, African-American, and Asian-American communities.
It is held at the Mina Rees Library, within the Graduate Center's B. Altman and Company Building.
Through this process they identified and interviewed leaders in the organization in a fieldwork environment within the metropolitan area of New York City.
[1][10] The main focus of the interviews was on biographical experiences that shaped their community-based work, and on challenges, achievements, motivations, and methodologies used to effect changes within their communities.
In 2013, digitization of the 77 audio cassettes and 2,300 pages of interview transcripts was completed, with clips of some of the oral histories made available online in 2014.