Melissa Hawley and Andrew Carter
Recorded
February 25, 2022
Archived
February 25, 2022
54:16 minutes
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Id:
ddv001433
Description
Andrew Carter (26) speaks with his One Small Step partner Melissa Hawley (59) about their shared connection with language and linguistics. The pair also talk about their faith and relationship to Christianity and about some of their personal political beliefs.Subject Log / Time Code
AC shares that he’s in school and has been in school all his life. He talks about his love of languages and linguistics.
MH works with a Christian non-profit that helps people record stories and preserve their languages and also recording Bible stories in their own languages. MH also tells a story about being in Togo and working with people who spoke Anufo.
MH shares a little bit about her personal politics and how abortion is the biggest issue that steers her away from the Democratic Party. AC talks about wanting to vote for Gloria La Riva and then opting for Joe Biden to try to turn Oklahoma blue.
AC talks about his friend Matthew that told him about One Small Step, and how he met him abroad in Japan. He talks about meeting people from his university while in Japan.
AC talks about his family’s religious background and how he is similar and different from his family in that regard. The pair speak about their perspectives on God and religion.
AC talks about his earliest memories of politics and remarks on an ableist magnet that was making fun of George Bush, and how that stuck in his mind. MH remembers her first exposure to politics was in elementary school during the Jimmy Carter administration.
AC shares about how the teachings of Jesus Christ, specifically the golden rule have informed his beliefs and politics.
MH shares about some of her travels and why she enjoys it so much.
AC asks MH if she’s Southern or Midwestern, and they talk about that dichotomy and how it plays out in Oklahoma.
AH and MH talk about what surprised each other about them.
Participants
- Melissa Hawley
- Andrew Carter