Welcome everyone to American Girls The Podcast.

This is the show where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book.

I'm Mary and in a moment you'll hear from Alison and our two excellent guests today,

Grace Magookie and Danielle Wetmore.

Grace is an educator at the Tenement Museum in Danielle, formerly of the Tenement Museum,

is now an educator and public historian at the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.

Now, today we're going to be delving into Rebecca's world in the Lower East Side using

the great interpretation and stories gathered by the Tenement Museum.

Before we get into the episode, we just wanted to take a moment and acknowledge that the

Tenement Museum is most known for histories of labor and we're going to hear from two of

its educators on the ground who have done so much research and offer such great interpretations.

But the institution itself has also been linked to labor issues and we just wanted to

acknowledge our awareness of that. We do not get into that in this episode in part because

we wanted to focus on Rebecca's world. We also realized that the issue of exploitation at work

and the very things Rebecca and Samantha protested are still with us today and often a part

of so many people's work lives, especially in non-profit or museum jobs with precarious funding.

So all of these different jobs where people pursue history often have really fraught labor

behind the scenes. We want to make a care and keeping a view episode to provide resources for how

everyone can advocate for themselves at work today, whether you work in a museum field,

history, or not. We'll be getting expert advice and we want you to send us your questions so

that our episode can speak to our broader community needs. So if you have questions about what to

do to advocate for yourself at your job, please get in touch with us. We really want to be able to

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