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8th graders Adia and Caleb interview their former 6th grade reading teacher, Emily Loerch, about her life and career.

In this interview, I interview my grandmother Betty Savage in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 24, 2017. Betty reflects on her childhood, family, accomplishments, aspirations, hobbies, and lessons she's learned over the years. She discusses her grandmother, cousins, mother, father,...

Scott (47) and Krissy (31) talk about their relationship and how they met.

“The jumper had a little bib on it…like overalls, but not like overalls.” When Jenny (on the right) is in middle school, her grandmother, a tailor, makes her an ill-fated jumper. Despite hiding it in the back of her closet,...

Jack Cheever interviews Celine Murphy and discusses her move from Quebec to the United States. Recorded on April 15, 2018.

Son-in-law, Cooper Dean (37) interviews his mother-in-law, Thuy Carroll (62) and aunt-in-law, Bach Lien Duong (65) about their escape from Vietnam during the war.

Terry Chartock (50) interviews her friend Daniel Ellison (89) about his career working in hotels and hotel clubs and the famous people he met through his work.

Marybeth tells the story about her first time being intimate with her partner while attending college. She goes on to explain the journey of her pregnancy and reconnecting with her daughter years later.

Elizabeth Loredo (42) interviews her friend Navneet Chaudhary (47) about growing up in India, moving to the United States, and eventually running her own business.

Alberto Ibarguen (79) and his son Diego Ibarguen (48) remember Susana, Diego's mother and Alberto's wife who recently passed away after years of battling ALS. They remember their earliest memories of her, recall her powerful and loving presence, and praise...

Emma Bentley Ruzicka (34), interviews her grandfather Dr. John Bentley (86) about his time in the Navy, how he met his wife, becoming a doctor, and the experiences that followed him from state to state.

Kayla Hafidi (33) interviews her father, Jerome Smith (73), about his life, focusing on his time growing up in a segregated Atlanta and his time in the military as a member of the Army Security Agency.

Virginia Musick (98) talks to her sons, Mark Musick (69) and Ryland Musick (71), about her childhood, her educational background, and the different countries she has traveled to.

Nausheen Najan (27) is interviewed by her colleague and friend Andrew McDonald (25) about growing up in Florida, her parents' migration journey, being a graduate student at Princeton, the impostor syndrome, and her work as cofounder of Ismailis Rise Up.

Long-lost brothers, John "Douglas" Davila (57) and Peter Couture (62), sit down with Peter's wife, Wilma Norton (59), to share the story of how they found one another and connected as brothers after growing up as only children with different...

Marlene Boucher (72) talks to her husband, Rodney Boucher (63), about their relationship and his extensive career serving in the Navy.

Friends Belinda Jones (63) and Kiana Garius (23) discuss interracial and intergenerational friendship.

Journee Murry (16) interviews her grandmother Gwendolyn Mason (79) about her life.

Anne Ellinger (66) and One Small Step partner Andrea Hendricks (58) talk about the intersectionality of faith and politics, their shared experiences being mothers, prejudices, and varying political topics.

One Small Step partners Mario Reposo (66) and Ursula Stock (65) share about their upbringing and discuss their political beliefs on topics such as police reform, white collar crime, and climate change.

Marissa Kanz (38) talks with her ex-husband, Daniel Baughn (40), about their friendship, courtship, marriage and divorce. They talk about their shared spiritual faith, their six-year-old daughter and Daniel Baugh's coming out after they were married. They then talk about...

Elizabeth "Beth" Humphreys (55) interviews her father, Gary McKelvey (81), about his life, primarily focusing on his childhood in the 1940s in western North Carolina.

Kathy Purnell (54) interviews colleague Buddy Hannah (74) about his life and work in the arts, particularly his approach to building and celebrating community through this work.

One Small Step partners Lisa Specter-Dunaway (59) and Jessica Murray (39) have a conversation where they consider mental health, political polarization, immigrant experiences, and urban life.

One Small Step Partners Jane McKenna (76) and Carmen Brown (48) connect over a desire to not put people in boxes and discuss how their views have shifted over time.