Dee Dunbar and Mary Rodgers
Recorded
September 14, 2022
49:20 minutes
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Id:
ddv002032
Description
One Small Step partners Dee Dunbar (65) and Mary Rodgers (56) discuss their work as special education teachers, their children, and their political values.Subject Log / Time Code
Mary (M) shares how she made the change from teaching special education to becoming a minister. Dee (D) talks about her own work in special education.
M talks about choosing to be a single parent and about the adoption process she underwent to get her daughter.
D shares how she came to work in special education as a parent of a special needs student.
D reflects on her 40-year-long marriage and on how her Catholic faith has changed over time.
D considers her mother to be her biggest influence. M reflects on the various influences and mentors she’s had throughout her life, particularly the people who supported her through early motherhood.
D shares her political values of personal responsibility and hard work and shares her views on school responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
M considers how working in the ministry and how becoming a mother to a person of color as a white person have impacted her politics. NOTE: At 40:48, Mary uses a slur while sharing a story of racism her daughter experienced.
D shares how her daughter, who suffered from substance abuse disorder, would be discriminated against.
M talks about learning about racism and having conversations about it with her congregation.
Participants
- Dee Dunbar
- Mary Rodgers