Stories As We Move: A HOME Interview Series
Zubaidah Ezhar (Malaysia/Milwaukee, WI) in conversation with Samera Osman (Somalia/Milwaukee, WI) on August 26, 2025
Stories As We Move: A HOME Interview Series is an ongoing project that launched in 2020 as part of Lynden's HOME virtual platform. Previously named HOME Conversations with Ourselves, the series pairs individuals that have faced forced displacement and its changing forms in a conversational setting that is both purposeful and informational to interviewer, interviewee and their audience. Refugees, asylum seekers and migrants interview those that have resettled to the United States, including friends and family that are based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as those that remain overseas, covering various backgrounds and narrative identities, and professions, expertise and interests, including but not limited to artists, community members, advocates and leaders, healthcare workers, caseworkers, interpreters, and students and educators. These interviews are reflections of relationships and conversations that we continue to have long after resettlement; they explore issues that our refugee friends and family members continue to face as they remain in their country of origin or interim country.
About Zubaidah Ezhar
Zubaidah Ezhar is a Rohingyan, born in Malaysia. She moved to America with her family in 2013 when she was 7 years of age. As of 2025, she is pursuing a full-time pre-nursing degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. While in school, she is working as a part-time Licensed Practical Nurse while in school.
About Samera Osman
Samera Osman is a Somali-Milwaukeean and a photography enthusiast who is passionate in visual storytelling with a global perspective. As of 2025, she is a student at Marquette University pursing a double major in Psychology and International Relations, with a growing interest in foreign policy. During her final summer of high school, she spent her time split her two internships at the Milwaukee City Hall as the Milwaukee Youth Council – District 13 representative, and at the Lynden Sculpture Garden’s HOME Program.
Check out the entire collection of Stories As We Move: A HOME Interview Series here.