New Virginians Traveling Exhibition

The New Virginians: 1619–2019 & Beyond exhibition was a Legacy Project of the 2019 Commemoration, American Evolution, that explored the changing demographics of the commonwealth on the eve of the 2020 federal census through a series of interviews with first-generation immigrants and refugees who arrived in Virginia after 1976.

From 2019 to 2022, twenty venues across Virginia hosted the traveling exhibition.

To view excerpts from the interviews, please visit https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/changemakers/new-virginians