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One Small Step conversation partners Elizabeth Long (78) and Charles "Charly" Minkler (66) discuss politics of rural areas, their differences on abortion, and blended families.

Fred Edward (82) shares about his life with his friend Amaryllis Rieck (48). Fred talks about his experience in the Air Force during the Vietnam and Korean War, draws parallels between the Civil Rights Movement and the current Black Lives...

One Small Step partners Harold Lewis (61) and Matthew "Scott" Knox (48) share stories about their different lived experiences as a Black man growing up in the segregated South and a gay man growing up in the Northeast.

Spouses, Alex Primm [no age given] and Cathy Primm (75) discuss Alex's experience in Vietnam, how it informed his later work, and their life together.

One Small Step participants Dana Ellis (67) and Arlene Thompson (67) discuss their upbringing in the south, how COVID-19 has affected their lives, their frustration with the stalemate in Congress and what issues they would like to see be tackled.

Melvin Taylor (49) asks his associate Doris Green about her career as an ethnomusicologist, her creation of Greenotation (an integrated score of percussive music and dance notation), and the time she spent traveling in Africa to learn more about the...

Sandra Shackelford (83) and her friend May Lee Lor (53) talk about their different childhoods and how they connected over their shared desire to share and elevate Hmong stories.

One Small Step conversation partners Terri Byrd (54) and Sarah Shelton (56) talk about their upbringings and religious beliefs.

Angela Kwok (44) and One Small Step partner, Helen Leddy (84), exchange overlapping interests and concerns over disability along with the American health care system.

Brothers Steven Markel (67) and Donn Markel (72) share their experience with Parkinson's Disease, specifically Steven's diagnosis, Donn's role as a caregiver, and their father's experience with Parkinson's in the 1950s and 1960s.

One Small Step conversation partners, Larry Hahn (81) and Wayne Haines [no age given], talk about their experiences growing up on farms in the Midwest, growing up in Republican households, and their unease the modern Republican Party.

One Small Step partners Ray Bosch (68) and Steve Strain (53) get to know each other and discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the Trump administration.

One Small Step partners Sandy Wheeler (40) and Donald Cowles (75) examine their shared experience as military kids, explore the similarities and differences in their political values, reflect on the challenge of engaging across political differences, and connect over their...

Rev. Dr. Warren L. Herndon (72) and Clinton Cozart (71) remember experiencing segregation in their childhoods, the Civil Rights movement, and the destruction of the black-led community of Hayti. They also discuss who their role models are and what gives...

Patricia "Patti" Willits (70) speaks with her One Small Step partner, Leigh Carlson (66), about their political values and differing upbringings.

Friends and colleagues Morgan Bailey (31) and Coy Gibson (32) discuss their family backgrounds and what led them to working with the Anne Frank Center.

Friends George Crozier [no age given] and Rhoda Vanderhart [no age given] sit down to talk about their work on the Remembrance Project, the history of lynching in Mobile, and how their upbringings impacted the way they each grew up...

Kenyatta Bakeer (50) interviews her father, Donald Bakeer (77), about meeting and falling in love with her mother, his work organizing for Black liberation, and his writing.

Betty Yuen, 85, tells her daughter Lois Yuen, 45, and her son Eddie Yuen, 43, about growing up in Minnesota, being a stewardess, traveling to India alone, and meeting their father, Hoh-Kun (Donald) Yuen.

One Small Step conversation partners Anne Keehnen (64) and Jennifer Scott (35) discuss their beliefs around different topics, including abortion, the COVID-19 pandemic response, and political division.

One Small Step conversation partners Betsy Eaves (64) and Clarrissa Stephens [no age given] discuss religion and convictions.

One Small Step partners Valerie Robnolt (56) and Susie Perry-Fikes (81) have a conversation about their paths in their careers, their experiences with politics in their families, and conservatives in their families.

Jarrod Sport (37) interviews conversation partner and new friend Dr. Donald Felder (73) about his personal experience with school desegregation.

Friends Sharon Gunderson [no age given] and Ed Saslaw [no age given] discuss growing up, parents, Hebrew School, Shabbat and Judaism.

Carol Schindelar [no age given] interviewed Larry Kundert (71) about growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm and about his life since.