Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29

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Alex Jutila, a former student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and co-founder of Customer 49, a student activist group active from 2015-2018, explains how he started Customer 49 with Noe Pliego Campos. Topics discussed include the mission of Customer 49, their efforts to educate students about the finances behind higher education, and their concerns about the instating of Margaret Spellings as President of the UNC system in 2016. Mr. Jutila shares the various protests and projects that Customer 49 participated in and how the organization lost structure towards the end of his time at UNC Charlotte.

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Title: Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29
Interviewee: Jutila, Alex
Interviewer: Belk, Madison
Contributor: Mulvihill, Victoria
Ostrea, Lauren
Stinnett, Jason
Place of Publication: Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher: J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Date of Interview: 2019-10-29
Physical Description: 1 audio file (1:13:52) : Digital, MP3
Object Type: sound recording-nonmusical
Genre: spoken word
Language: eng
Interviewee Biography: Alex Jutila was a 30-year-old man at the time of interview, which took place on Skype. He was born in Plano, Texas in 1989. He was educated at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was employed as the Program Coordinator at the David Caldwell Historic Park in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Abstract: Alex Jutila, a former student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and co-founder of Customer 49, a student activist group active from 2015-2018, explains how he started Customer 49 with Noe Pliego Campos. Topics discussed include the mission of Customer 49, their efforts to educate students about the finances behind higher education, and their concerns about the instating of Margaret Spellings as President of the UNC system in 2016. Mr. Jutila shares the various protests and projects that Customer 49 participated in and how the organization lost structure towards the end of his time at UNC Charlotte.
Digital Object Notes: MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on a Macbook.
Audio Condition Note: Distortion due to laptop recording and connection issues
Interviewee Occupations: Executives
Subjects--Names: Jutila, Alex
Noe Pliego Campos
Dubois, Philip L.
Spellings, Margaret, 1957-
Subjects--Organizations: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina (System)
Subjects--Topics: Student movements
Education, Higher
Civil rights movements
Subjects--Geographic: North Carolina--Charlotte
Subjects--Genre: Oral histories
Interviews
Coverage--Dates: 2010-2020
Digital Collection Title: UNC Charlotte Oral History Interviews
Digital Collection Series Title: Organizing for social justice on campus
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This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Internet Media Type: audio/mpeg
Identifier: SJ-JU0005
Handle URL: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:5127

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