Shilpi Malinowski is an author and oral historian who tells stories about belonging. Her first book, Shaw, LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C.: An Oral History, tells the story of 70 years of life in DC’s most gentrified neighborhood through oral history, reporting, personal narrative, and photography. Her book has been incorporated into curriculums and used as a reference for both DC history and oral history students. Before immersing herself in oral history, Shilpi was a reporter whose articles have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, India Abroad, UrbanTurf, and The Indian American magazine. She focused her journalism work on two areas: DC neighborhoods and the Indian American diaspora. She has always been interested in how identity and community relate to each other, and in how we all make our most important decisions in life. Her current work, which is supported by fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and HumanitiesDC, involves collecting oral histories from the immigrant diaspora and from DC residents and synthesizing the stories into books. In the past, Shilpi was a high school journalism teacher, a yoga teacher, and a photographer.