Stories About the Stories
May 6, 2025: WBUR - How one group helps younger and older adults build intergenerational friendships
Arielle Galinsky has one regret that you might relate to; she missed her chance to hear the life story of a grandparent. Both of her grandfathers, whom she calls her rock stars, died when she was just 10 years old.
June 13, 2025: NEXT AVENUE - Leaving a Legacy, The Legacy Project creates meaningful connections between college students and older adults
Once The Legacy Project establishes a connection between the college and a community of older adults, it matches individual students with older adults in the community. The project uses the original set of questions created by the Tufts chapter, with some modifications.
July 8, 2025: Aging Unfiltered: The Power of Intergenerational Advocacy with Arielle Galinsky
Arielle shares her personal journey, from her passion for aging policy to co‑founding The Legacy Project at Tufts, where college students interview and build friendships with older adults to preserve their life stories. She explains how these connections combat isolation, foster empathy, and spark policy engagement.
During the Fellowship, Arielle will launch The Legacy Project Intergenerational Changemakers, a program which seeks to engage a cohort of pairs of olders and youngers from across the country to turn shared storytelling into propelling civic change.
March 13, 2025: MCKNIGHTS SENIOR LIVING-Intergenerational storytelling program a ‘passion project’ to share residents’ life stories
The Legacy Project, which began as a Tufts University student organization in 2020, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering intergenerational connections and preserving life stories through partnerships with universities and senior living communities.
September 06, 2023: GENERATIONS NOW - Intergenerational Connection Key to Leaving Accurate Legacies
Arielle Galinsky, 21, and a rising senior studying Biopsychology, Community Health and American Politics at Tufts University, spent many of her high school years working at a senior community near her home in Canton, Mass. In her role there, she had the opportunity to meet and talk with many of the residents, but always left her shifts wishing she knew more about their life histories.
TLP connects college students with older adults, giving them the opportunity to visit older adults in senior centers and interview them to learn about their life. At the end of the year, students have a chance to become published authors by collaboratively writing a book detailing the stories of the older adults they spoke to.
To help build meaningful connections across different generations in this context, sophomore Arielle Galinsky and junior Katie Furey started a new group, the Legacy Project at Tufts, which soon grew into a club of 30 members last fall.
Maplewood Senior Living, a premier provider of luxury senior living, is proud to announce its partnership with The Legacy Project, Inc. (TLP) an innovative intergenerational initiative born out of Tufts University and first introduced at Maplewood at Weston, MA.
April 30, 2024: TUFTS NOW - Arielle Galinsky's Treasury of Life Stories
Arielle Galinsky, A24, lost her grandfathers in childhood and always regretted not spending more time listening to their stories. So when she volunteered at a senior living community as a teenager, she had a mission to preserve stories for other families. She documented her conversations with the seniors in a book, Their Lives Reflected: A Treasury of Life Stories Captured Through the Legacy Project.