"The feminist efforts that resonate most strongly are those that seek to take action now, on behalf of the future..".The Summer Institute is a collaboration between Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Hosted at 4thSpace this summer, the Institute is organized by former lead co-director of COHDS, Dr. Cynthia Hammond. As a lead up to these events, Cynthia sat down with two of the participants, to find out more about their research and the connections between their practicesDr. Bimadoshka Pucan, assistant professor in History and at the School of Public Affairs at Concordia and Nancy R. Tapias Torrado currently a post doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Political Science and Law at UQAM.