It wasn't until Clark's time as director that the center gained enough funding to be able to complete extensive projects and partnered with INCITE.
The primary interviewers are Brent Hayes Edwards and Steve Rowland who were assisted by Gustavo Azendha, Karald Kisiedu, and Jennella Young.
[9] Most recently running from October 2011 to September 2013, the oral history project focusing on the Carnegie Corporation has been a lasting effort.
[10] Beginning in 2008 the Rule of Law Oral History Project has studied how the events of 9/11 changed human and civil rights.
She worked with Columbia University history professor Ken Jackson by utilizing his undergraduate class as volunteer interviewers.
The project focused on documenting people's reactions before mass media shaped them, as well as reaching many different communities and groups to hear their perspectives.
At this point, still within the same year as the attacks, Columbia became willing to fund operational costs for the center and with the help of Bearman, Clark could apply for grants.
When conducting interviews with Spanish speakers, there was a trend to identify and be traumatized by the sheer number of people who jumped from the towers, which was reported by the Spanish-media but not the mainstream media until much later.
[3][12] This project spanned from 2002 to 2005 and focused on the people in power who had to organize response teams and get the city back on track.
[12] After 9/11 there was a lot of fear of anthrax attacks and public health was a top priority, especially in terms of returning to normalcy.
Once ChevronTexaco got involved, and the permanent school program was introduced, classes were required to make either a book or a documentary to be shown publicly.
Rockafeller Foundation funded the program and the goal was to simply document using oral history the effects of 9/11 on Chinatown.