In my first year as a doctoral intern, I worked at an African American social service agency in Portland, Oregon, and it was there that I came to understand that cultural memory is anything but private—it is something we live into together. Simply put, "Memory is relational" (Ullman, 2011, p. 269) and "everything but static and past tense" (Stern, 2011). I also learned that cultural memory and collective identity are political in ways we do not understand.