Jennifer Townsend and Jennifer Harrison
Recorded
September 22, 2022
Archived
September 22, 2022
51:37 minutes
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Id:
dde001637
Description
One Small Step partners Jennifer Townsend (48) and Jennifer Harrison (50) talk about rural life, their personal political values, and the state of communication and discourse in their academic disciplines.Subject Log / Time Code
Jennifer Townsend (JT) and Jennifer Harrison (JH) talk about why they wanted to participate in One Small Step and read each other's bios.
JT and JH talk about their paths to settling into their current homes in more rural areas outside of Kalamazoo.
JT and JH talk about the most influential people in their lives.
They reflect on the loss of their mothers and their shared experience of having divorced parents.
They talk about their personal political values and reflect on how those values impact their work as professors.
They talk about housing policy and their perspectives on social safety net programs.
They talk about the ways in which they feel misunderstood by people with different political beliefs.
They reflect on some of the problems they have with how others with similar values communicate their beliefs.
They reflect on their One Small Step conversation.
Participants
- Jennifer Townsend
- Jennifer Harrison