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Josh talks with his Grandpa Melvin about his childhood and upbringing.

Joe (80) tells his grandson James (40) about his family, his childhood, his work life, his marriage, his daughter (James’s mother), his emphysema and his outlook on life.

Bruce Friedrich (84) talks with his granddaughter Rose Friedrich (14) about his experiences from growing up on a farm to getting a phd in chemistry.

Kathy (30) interviews her mother, Nancy (61), about her childhood and raising a family.

Joseph Donald Doub (72) talks with his daughter Paige Elizabeth McAfee (41) about his childhood, their family home, and his career.

Friends Michelle MacFadyen (57) and Hector LaSala (74) discuss Hector's journey to Louisiana from El Salvador and their work together with asylum seekers, mainly Spanish-speaking Latin American women.

Kathryn Wooten interviews Dolores Henson, her grandmother, about growing up with a working class family in Glouster, Ohio, where most of her family and ancestry worked in the coal mines. Dolores remembers the two most important people in her life:...

Margie, 63, interviews Phyllis, 85, about her work in the lesbian rights movement and the influence that she has had on Margie’s life.

Laura Peterson (52) talks with her sorority sister Shari Malone (77) about her life and her experiences in the Delta Gamma sorority.

One Small Step partners Alejo Cabal (27) and Lisa Kline (29) talk about immigration, making sacrifices, hard work, and privilege.

Raphael Pantet, 24, visiting San Francisco from Brazil, talks with facilitator Frank Kingman, 64, about his several trips throughout the U.S., having dual Swiss/Brazilian citizenship, and compares how race is talked about in the U.S. and Brazil.

Mechelle Brown and her son Curtis Williams about what it was like for Mechelle to be the younger parent of 3 children and words of wisdom she wants to pass on.

Pamela Jennings (57) shares a conversation with her father, Wyatt Jennings (88), about Wyatt’s upbringing on a tobacco farm in Virginia, his time in the armed services, his experience working as an automotive technician, and about the businesses he owned.

One Small Step conversation partners Fiorella "Fio" Lazarte (36) and John Fox (67) meet for a one-on-one conversation at the Teton County Library. Fio is a 3rd grade teacher at a dual immersion (bilingual) elementary school and identifies as liberal....

Donna Schminkey [no age given] interviews her mentee, Mubara Mayar (15), about her life in Kabul, Afghanistan and her life in Harrisonburg, Virginia now. Mubara describes the differences between Afghanistan and the United States and talks about her hopes for...

Ron Shepler (64) talks with his daughter Jennifer Jasmine Partida (40) about growing up poor in rural Michigan, why he became the man of the house at a young age, the value of education, and why he calls himself generation...

One Small Step conversation partners Precious Smith (39) and Lacey Wheeler (34) talk about race, LGBTQ2+ community, fitting into molds, government assistance, and listening to understand rather than listening to respond.

A woman talks about the deaths of two of her three children, and growing up in a poor Spanish speaking family.

Rosalind Operton (59) interviews her older sister, Cynthia Arrington (64), about Cynthia's childhood, the blessings and the burdens that come with being the oldest child, memories she has of her parents and grandmothers, and what she has planned for the...

Frank "Jim" Fields Jr. (90) and his son, Frank Fields III (65), talk about their family and their connection to Brooklyn, New York.

Christine Booth (46) and One Small Step partner Jon Giaimo [no age given] discuss the consequences of social media, the Black Lives Matter movement, the homelessness crisis, and America's position in the war in Ukraine.

Kanani Choy, 57 is interviewed by her good friend Holly Cost 53.

I interviewed 21-year-old Susan Dakorson who also goes by Susie, a close friend of mine, of what it was like growing up in America dealing with and breaking the ideal Hair standard in American society for African American women. Susie...

Shalom Daniel Seltzer, 62, by his children, Lucia and Gabriel Borrello about his childhood and the leaving of New Orleans after Katrina.

Barbara D. Martinez (76) talks with her daughter Renee Martinez (49) about her life.