Patricia Preciado Martin is an author, oral historian, and speaker whose work has been invaluable in preserving and sharing stories of Mexican Americans in Tucson. Her books include two oral histories, Images and Conversations and Songs my Mother Sang to Me and three collections of short stories. We spoke about her memories of growing up in Tucson, how her thinking about ethnicity and identity evolved throughout her life, and how recording oral histories changed the way she thought about Tucson, its people, and herself.