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[Recorded Tuesday, March 19, 2024] UVA students Bea Webster (21) from Vienna, VA and Evan Small (21) from Fairfield, CT recorded a One Small Step conversation as part of their Lead From Anywhere course. Evan & Bea explored their political...

Coworkers Esther Louis (37), Cortes Lewis James (50), and Yakesha Llewellyn (32) talk about their work as doulas and the importance of interrupting the Black maternal health crisis.

Why should open source have all the fun? Clare Dillon shares her experience in the wonderful world of innersource, the application of open source practices within organizations. Collaboration is just too exciting not to share!

Siblings Betty Brown-Chappell (76) and Ben Brown (68) share memories from growing up on their family farm in the 1950s and 1960s outside of Bangor, Michigan. The two reflect on the collaboration between Black farmers in their community and the...

Partners in crime, friends, and colleagues Farley McDonough (58) and Natalie Johnson (47) discuss their collaborations and community work in Manitou Springs, Colorado. They also reflect on their life paths and where they are headed next, particularly as Farley moves...

Colleagues Lynn Mertz (58) and Theresa Edelstein (63) talk about their work with the Leaders in Equity and Diversity (LEAD) Collaborative. They discuss their careers and the need for health equity.

Natalie Johnson (47) interviews her friend Mark Wong (55) about his work as a potter and his involvement in the local art community.

Lynn Preston (71) interviews her friend Patricia Cosgrove (87) about Patricia's career as a teacher, her work as a teacher's advocate, and her advice for future teachers.

Interview focuses on Lynn Trudeau's reflections on the results of the 2022 off-year national and state elections.

Part 2 of 2. "Pretty city committee." Sandra talks to Angela about her time as a teacher, disrupting violence with art, and coming together to make the city we want to live in.

Children’s book authors and spouses Chris Barton (51) and Jennifer Ziegler (55) interview each other about their experiences as authors, parents, travelers, music lovers, etc., during 2022.

interview with mother

In this interview, I (the one asking the questions, 15 years old) ask my grandmother (The one speaking Spanish, 71 years old) questions about herself and her past with the help of my aunt (The woman translating, 43 years old).

Our group discusses the localization premise, the value of envisioning, the process of envisioning Michigan Stadium as a community space, and our thoughts on the localization course.

Jillian and Barbara talk about their project of incorporating localization principles into a summer camp curriculum in Ann Arbor. This camp focused on localized food and agriculture systems, including topics like cooking, composting, and foraging, and visits to local farms...

Crystal talks with Bree about the Ann Arbor addendum created to supplement the RAND Corporation's "Community Resilience: Learn and Tell Toolkit".

Anna, Rachel, and Maddie, SEAS students at the University of Michigan, discuss the concept of localization and the course's premise of energy descent and the coming transition. They also share details about their course project in which they developed "Your...

Erika Frondorf and Erika Kinninger discussed the eventual transition of our society. Localization is what we believe our future will transition to as energy and resources descent occurs. We explain the project we created and how it applies to the...

Tara-Sky describes her podcast project and how it relates to localization.

Interviewing my mom, Lindsey Frampton.

My name is Elliott Wiehn (16) and I interviewed my Great Grandfather Dallas Cummings (~85), and we talked about his life up until now.

Bella Martin and Mike Wethington. Granddaughter and grandfather. Talk about growing up and school experiences while entering adulthood.

Friends and colleagues Tamara Fields (48) and Andrew Vo (48) discuss their shared experiences as current colleagues and alumni of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

Patrick McNameeKing (34) and Morgan Zipf-Meister (39), coworkers at StoryCorps, share a conversation about the outdoors, building community, and creativity. They touch on the pandemic’s effects on adventuring and collaboration.

This interview is an analysis of a biblical conversation between Christian Sears and his aunt, Corliss Carr. The seventeen-year-old college student interrogated his sixty-nine-year-old aunt about various questions revolving around the biblical meanings and applications of happiness. Several of the...