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Melvin Johnson (65) and Darryl Hicks (67) share their common experiences driving trucks, growing up black, and the joy and importance of having conversations with different kinds of people and not making assumptions.

Sisters, Stephanie Frank (35) and Alexandra Frank (32), talk about their careers, the movie that shaped their friendship, and the love for film their mother fostered in them.

One Small Step conversation partners Jim Brown (75) and Paul Anderson (78) have a conversation about their backgrounds, losses in life, political views, education, the environment, and meeting up in the future for a beer. They find common ground despite...

One Small Step conversation partners Mike Hurley (72) and Cathryn Harjung (63) talk about Woodstock, volunteering, local politics, fathers, and family.

Rob Shaw (65) is interviewed by his wife Katherine Hutson (60) about how he came to the Baha'i faith, his decade living in Latin America and his world view. They also discuss how they met and how Katherine's Lakota spirituality...

Carlotta Young (57) interviews her Bookmobile patron Bessie Goldman (96) about Bessie’s love of reading, her childhood in Baltimore, her experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the advice she would like to share with others.

Sarah Roundy (38) and One Small Step partner, Maria Roach (56), discuss faith, memories of growing up, motherhood, and the current political climate.

One Small Step partners Ernestine Krehbiel (83) and Rose [No Name Given] (45) share a conversation about their children, abortion, faith, and their personal political values.

Kimberly Kelling (63) sits down with her father, Lloyd S. "Bud" Kelling (90), to ask him about his childhood memories at Camp Crockett (also known as Kamp Karney), to learn more about what it was like for him to discover...

Kathy Purnell (54) interviews her husband William Craft (56) about a pivotal sports injury, his career in filmmaking, and the life lessons he has learned along the way.

Grace O’Neill (65), Stuart Rienhoff (62), and William "Bill" Rienhoff IV (69) share a conversation with their father, William "Bill" Rienhoff III (95), about his experiences growing up in Baltimore, his family, and his medical practice.

One Small Step conversation partners Thia Embers (59) and Alexander "Alex" Koch (39) talk about the shared experiences of alcoholism, switching political parties and feeling "marooned," and the importance of local community.

One Small Step partners Frances Stewart (79) and Herbert "Herb" Loveless (68) have a conversation about their political upbringings, advice to their younger selves, and their views and experiences around the Vietnam War.

Emily Snow (43) interviews her mother, Donna Maxwell (74), about how her heart condition, Tetraology of Fallot, impacted her childhood, her experience having open-heart surgery in the 1960s, and how her life changed after surgery.

Carlton Thompson (33) shares a conversation with his brother Davelle Merrick (24) and mother Yvette Thompson (56) about their experiences moving from New York to Virginia, their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the loss of their grandfather.

Thomas Riddle (56) talks to his therapist David Avruch (32) about his life, his addiction to heroin, learning to love himself, the challenges of recovery, and how he hopes to help other people struggling.

Spouses Erica Jackson Green (48) and David Green (46) share a conversation about the experiences their family has had, the places they have lived, the communities they have found, and their hopes for how their futures will unfold.

Sorority sisters Toni Black (43) and Valerie Thomas (64) share a conversation about the Alpha Alpha Sigma Chapter of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. They talk about the chapter’s history, some of its notable members, its community service programming,...

Husband and wife, Maxie D. Collier (54) and Schatar Sapphira Collier [no age given], discuss their journeys breaking into the media industry, their love for each other, and meeting one another for the first time.

Conversation partners George "Ed" Felder (71) and Cole Johnston (26) talk about George's life and service in the Air Force.

Kinshasa Vargas-Pile (47) talks to her wife, Heather Riley (41), about her love for being a librarian, especially in Baltimore, and the sense of community she has found through it.

Nancy Volmer (62) and her nephew Josh Volmer (34) share the story of how they began living together after Josh's father passed away and his mother began struggling with schizophrenia.

One Small Step partners Michael Floyd (54) and Melissa Price (57) talk about the challenging circumstances that they lived through as children, the formation of their belief systems, and their relationships with faith.

Debra Kassoff (44) interviews her father, Hal Kassoff (71), about his childhood growing up in the Bronx, NY, in an immigrant Jewish family, and about his career.

Melvin Thomas (23) talks to his former high school art teacher, Rebecca Belleville (32), about his drive in middle school to go to a top performing high school, his interest in sculpture, being an African American male in the art...