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Anonymous User wrote: After returning to the University of Florida, I searched for community-based organizations in which I could participate. I chose to join the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, (SPOHP), a program that was both pertinent to my history major and heavily tied to community based organizations throughout the United States. Through SPOHP, I was able to reach out to Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), based in Durham, North Carolina, an organization that assists farmworkers in the mid-Atlantic region. SAF was reaching its twentieth anniversary, and although a strong and vibrant organization, was having trouble in spreading awareness about farmworker conditions. SAF wished for us to gather twenty interviews with prominent alumni in a project called SAF twenty for twenty, commemorating their twentieth anniversary. I was the head coordinator for the project at SPOHP. Throughout the project, I focused first and foremost on SAF’s desires. I asked them what interview type questions they desired, which order they wanted the interviews conducted in, and which topics should comprise the core of interview questions. I would send every interview an intern conducted to SAF in order to see if they wished for it to be edited in a certain way. SAF was pleased by the interview collection process and afterward I directed a team of interns in the process of podcast creation from the same set of interviews conducted with SAF. Holding true to putting SAF’s interests first and creating these podcasts for their benefit, I constantly consulted them throughout the process to see if they desired any cuts or thematic changes to these respective podcasts. My experiences in the SAF “twenty for twenty” project served to solidify my belief of performing activities for the benefit of others. I have since incorporated this principle into my postgraduate work environments as well.