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Michael Diaz-Rivera (23) interviews his mother, Linda Diaz-Rivera-Cleveland (46) about her life, focusing on her experience as a mother.

Susan Amussen (65) interviews her mother Diane Amussen (89) about her community organizing and activism roots.

One Small Step conversation partners Bob Hamma (72) and Amber Smith (42) talk about working with immigrants for citizenship and counseling teens in schools.

Amanda Penny (42) asks Sean Penny (41) about his military time in Iraq as well as his life post war. They discuss the long road to meeting each other as they celebrate their anniversary.

Mary Brehm (57) interviews her mother Judith Brehm (91) about her career, her friends, and her late husband.

Glenda Tate [no age given] shares a conversation with her mentee, Jamila Raybourn (31), about Jamila’s childhood, her family, her dreams and purpose, what brings her joy, and how she arrived where she is now.

One Small Step conversation partners Eli Chevalier (30) and Julia Ginorio (33) discuss economics, debt, education and healthcare.

Jim Lesperance (71) and his wife Jan Lesperance (69) share memories of their fathers and talk about Jim's memories of teaching.

Sidney Williams [no age given] speaks to his manager, Eric Breaux (45), about his upbringing, his music career, and his community in Louisiana.

Longtime friends Allison Tant [no age given] and Courtney Atkins [no age given] sit down for a conversation about their advocacy work, their parents, their children, and the strong women who inspired them to become the community leaders they are...

Brothers Brian Walsh [no age given] and Kevin Walsh (49), talk about their memories and experiences with their father.

One Small Step conversation partners Greg Stump (62) and Mary Lynn Manns [no age given] talk about their upbringing, political values, and how people can change.

One Small Step Conversation Partners Simon Biasell (41) and John Walke (74) discuss faith, justice, parent-child relationships, identity, and their shared love of their Fresno, California community.

Nich Traverse (39) and his father Peter Traverse (60) bond over their passion as farmers, specifically at Innisfree Village, and share anecdotes from their experiences.

One Small Step conversation partners Jack Llewellyn (58) and Robert Bogner (90) talk about family life, cancer among family members, the importance of work, fatherhood and love of the common man.

One Small Step conversation partners Warren Brown (55) and Melissa Reitman (57) explore some of their political differences, explore the meaning they find in raising children and trade notes on the difficulties of public interaction in their professions.

Rachel Schmidt (41) sits down with her father, Fred Jones (79), to ask him about his young adult years. Fred shares stories from his time studying at the Georgia Institute of Technology and from his time serving in the U.S....

Stephanie Emory (47) interviews her dad, Mark Emory (77), about his experience enlisting in the Army during the Vietnam War.

Judith Sapper (61) interviews her mother, Mildred Sapper (92), about life during the 1940s.

One Small Step Conversation partners Marcia Oates (68) and Ann Marie Mershon (73) talk about their careers as school teachers and what they learned, the progress or lack there of on women's rights in their lifetime, abortion, and women's athletics.

Mary “Angelique” Guillory (53) speaks with conversation partner Franchesca Peña [no age given] about beginning a new phase of their life after their mother’s passing and finding purpose and presence in life beyond caregiving.

One Small Step conversation partners Jean Skeels (50) and Mike Ulen (32) talk about tribalism in US politics, the harm done by labeling, and their personal political philosophies and the events and people that helped shape their ideas.

Alan Zube (67) and his One Small Step partner Tina Volen (59) acknowledge the influential people in their lives, give opinions of their town's local politics, and discuss the issue of COVID-19.

Sisters Tammy Henry [no age given] and Tiffiny Benton-Hoke [no age given] sit down with their mother, Wilbertine Calhoun (73), to ask her about the parts of her life story that she has not shared with her daughters. As she...

Andrew Agustin (19) sits down to have a chat with his dad, Roy-Alan Agustin (55), about his long career in the Air Force.