The United States was built of immigrant stories leaving, famine, religious persecution, conflict, and strife. These stories empower communities and shared experiences of immigration. One of the main projects we did was collaborating with our students in the “Our Stories” project. The project is intended to get students to share their individual or families' immigrant stories. The Our Stories project is a collection of students' stories that covers a large portion of Coming Out Of The Shadows event that occurs annually.