Abstract
Maryellen Eickman-Fiala details her early life growing up in Forest Park, an early planned suburb of Cincinnati. Eickman-Fiala recollects her college experience at Case Western Reserve University. She highlights her work in dietetics and as a diabetes instructor. Eickman-Fiala shares her experience living in the Near West Side and discusses its continued gentrification since her arrival. She shares her involvement in various community boards. Eickman-Fiala recollects her experience with extending hospitality to unhoused people in the Catholic Worker movement and how it has shaped the person she is today.
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Interviewee
Eickman-Fiala, Maryellen (interviewee)
Interviewer
White, Bali (interviewer)
Project
Near West Side Housing Activism
Date
6-25-2024
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
82 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Maryellen Eickman-Fiala interview, 25 June 2024" (2024). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 544004.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1281
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