A Bridge Between Generations.
Echo empowers students and families alike to preserve the irreplaceable wisdom of human experience, ensuring that every voice can be heard for generations to come.
The Disappearing Voice
In a world of fleeting digital text, the most personal and profound method of storytelling, the human voice, is often lost. Priceless family memories, cultural traditions, and the histories of entire communities disappear when the last person who remembers them is gone.
It's the unwritten histories of our own families and the quiet wisdom of our local communities that are most at risk. The detailed craft of an artisan, the firsthand account of a pivotal event, the secret to a perfect dish: these fragments of our heritage are often not considered 'important' enough for formal archives, yet they are the very threads that weave the fabric of our lives.
Echo is the answer. Together, we are building a living archive where the wisdom of the past is always present to inform the future.
Our Guiding Principles
These ideas are the foundation of everything we build.
Preserve with Purpose
We conserve not just voices but the identities, traditions, and irreplaceable wisdom they carry.
Connect Generations
We empower young people to become historians, forging powerful connections with their elders.
Democratize Archives
We believe personal histories and cultural narratives should be accessible to all, not locked away.
Sustain Wisdom
We build a classroom across time, ensuring future generations can learn directly from the voices and wisdom of the past.
The Reason We Began
A word from our founders.
"Echo began when I found an old, faded photograph of my great-grandparents. I saw their kind eyes and felt the profound loss of the stories they could never tell me—a history class I could never take, a mentorship I would never receive. It was then I knew we had to build a library for those unwritten lessons, a way to ensure a legacy of love and learning endures."Nishka Jain(Co-Founder)
"We live in an age of endless information, but we're starving for wisdom. That wisdom isn't in a database; it's in the cadence of our elders' voices, in the stories shared across generations. Echo is our way of building a new kind of library—not of data, but of humanity itself."Angela Li(Co-Founder)
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General Inquiries & Partnerships
We’d love to hear from you. Whether you have a question about our mission, an idea for collaboration, or simply want to share your thoughts, please don’t hesitate to reach out.