The Beauty Turner Academy of Oral History is Accepting Applications for Summer 2025!

The National Public Housing Museum is bringing back the Beauty Turner Academy of Oral History for the summer of 2025! Applications are open now through April 25. This 11-week PAID intensive summer training program introduces the principles, ethics, and practice of conducting oral history-based memory work and is designed for public housing communities across the country. This year’s program will run between June 9 – Aug 29 and will include a participant stipend, training workbook, and equipment starter kit. The program is entirely virtual, and applicants are welcomed from across the country. Find out more about the application here. 

The Beauty Turner Academy and the National Public Housing Museum envision a world where residents are empowered to document, preserve, share, and celebrate narrative histories from their perspectives—the people who call public housing home.