Barbara W Sommer Author

Barbara W. Sommer has been an oral historian for more than twenty-five years, serving as director or co-director for numerous oral history projects, leading oral history workshops and making presentations, and she is a founder of the Oral History Association of Minnesota. She is the owner of BWS Associates, an oral history consulting firm. Mary Kay Quinlan, Ph.D., freelance journalist and oral historian, is editor of the Oral History Association Newsletter and has been active in regional and national oral history activities for many years. She was a Washington correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald and Gannett News Service for fifteen years and has taught graduate and undergraduate journalism courses. Quinlan has conducted oral history workshops, presented at regional and national conferences, and has been an NEH peer reviewer for oral history project proposals.