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Cheryl Hewitt (58), a Stanford Health Care patient, talks with David Grady (59) about her struggles and triumphs in navigating school and health care with a lifelong disability.

Beth Markley (51) talks to her friend Ty Carson-Eisenman (48) about their advocacy in the LGBTQ+ community. Ty recalls memories of attending peaceful protests of the Idaho senate, now commonly referred to as the "Add the 4 Words" movement, to...

Friends and colleagues Courtneay Small (61) and Richard Harris (58) talk about their upbringings, experiences as mentors, and the importance of their work with Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts.

Friends Osyrus Bolly [no age given] and Ryan Davis (42) talk about their community, their admiration for community leaders, their advocacy for policy change and equity, and the importance of investing in the youth of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Spouses Joy Hoover (34) and Philip Hoover (42) talk about their non-profit, Cupcake Girls, where they work to provide free resources to folks in the sex-work industry, all while sharing cupcakes.

Dave Hayward, 61, interviews Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham, 46, about the phase of his career from the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic until he became the director of the AIDS Survival Project in Atlanta.

Katrina Oh Schoenwald (35) talks with her husband Brett Schoenwald (39) about how they met at a fundraiser for Able Advocates, a non-profit Katrina founded, what it was like to lose their son Nate and why they keep the non-profit...

Ellise [No Name Given] (27) speaks with her colleague Nadirah Sabir (56) about their work as birth justice doulas. They discuss the importance of challenging Western medicine and trusting your body.

Tracy Yellen (52) interviews her friend Ruben Vogt (38) about his early life, political career, public service, and LGBTQIA+ rights. The two also discuss the El Paso mass shooting that occurred in 2019 and Ruben chairing the One Fund committee,...

Program participant Joshua Smiley (30) and program employee Raphael “Raphy” Famatigan (27) discuss their backgrounds and dreams, moving to New York, and the impact of the justice system.

Coworkers Claire Judkins (52) and Renetta Mosley [no age given] discuss their work with Acadia and the importance of sharing stories about Parkinson’s Disease through the Yours, Truly campaign.

Paulina Roberts (23) speaks with mentor, friend, and former CASA Cori Stern (44) about their relationship and experiences together.

Friends Elisabeth "Biz" Lindsay-Ryan (47) and Suni Kartha (47) talk about their work on the PTA Equity Project in their home community of Evanston, Illinois. They reflect on how they first became aware of the inequities in parent-teacher association (PTA)...

Tonisha Brown (34) and her mother, Merinda Daniel (60), reflect on Tonisha's journey to getting a liver transplant, and the role that community support, advocacy, and faith have played in their lives.

In recognition of Labor Day, Katherine Chon, Director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Andy Hall, a Migrant Worker Rights Specialist, spoke about forced labor in Malaysia’s rubber glove...

Danae Davis (64) discusses with her colleague, Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar (30), her career trajectory and her hopes for the city of Milwaukee.

Michael Burke (53) speaks with his friend and doctor Ravi Nayak (58) about their shared journey with Michael’s cystic fibrosis. The two emphasize the importance of a trusting physician-patient relationship.

One Small Step conversation partners Sarah Graves (43) and Kate Hall (48) talk about value of hard work, entrepreneurship, parenthood, and the current political climate around trans rights.

One Small Step partners Wendy Karrick [no age given] and Lisah Crall (42) discuss parenthood, grief, role models, faith, the impact of labels, and the future of the country.

Leslie Gordon (57) interviews her father, Henry "Jack" Gordon (84) about his upbringing in a military family and his service in the United States Army.

Friends, colleagues, and partners in "good trouble," Delaitre Jordan Hollinger [no age given] and Jacqueline Yvonne Perkins (64), sit down for a conversation about their family history, their current projects, and the importance of preserving African American history.

Barbara "Abbie" Parsons (76) shares a conversation with her friend, Youlonda McCullough-Jackson (51), about their experiences with the injustice in Arkansas lack of renters' rights and protections.

Friends and colleagues Wendy Dorfman (54) and Monet David (34) discuss the founding of the Acadiana Queer Collective, planning pride festivals in Lafayette, and the importance of other events the Collective has put on.

Spouses Susan Means (63) and Phillip Means (63) remember their early life and Phillip's enlistment and deployments, and they reflect together on the joys and challenges of their military connection as individuals and as a couple.

Deborah Clark (60) interviews her friend and colleague, Dr. Kimberly Scott [no age given], about her career, the different museums she has visited, and the people she considers her heroes.