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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.

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

Carolyn Ewing (65) reminisces with her husband, Abdul Salaam Ewing (64), on their varying influences in their path to Islam.

McKenna Torres (25) and her husband, Jim Torres (26), reflect and share anecdotes on their varying roles being students, teachers, and now a married couple.

One Small Step conversation partners Ruth Cain [no age given] and Salma Hussein [no age given] discuss their work as social workers, their marriages, and their faith/spirituality.

One Small Step partners Steve Montgomery (53) and Joan Pasiuk (69) have a conversation about their commonalities as individuals and how their religious beliefs impact their political ideologies.

One Small Step conversation partners Joel Anderson (60) and Cia Verschelden (66) discuss major influences in their life, the civil rights movement, serving in the military and political points of view.

One Small Step partners Laura Honeywood (41) and Peter Crisci (59) talk about their political views, abortion rights, and education.

One Small Step participants Michael Wallace [no age given] and Rev. John Kennedy [no age given] discuss their upbringing, their experiences in seminary, and how their politics have evolved over time.

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.

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

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...

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 partners Andrew Knight (25) and Paul Jeffrey (58) discuss growing up in large families, their evolving religious beliefs, parenting goals, and Paul's negative interactions with the police.

One Small Step partners Sarah Vogt (63) and Katharine Kenny (67) have a conversation about their shared feelings of responsibility to humanity, political values, and views on abortion. They find agreement in seeing two Republican parties today and being troubled...

One Small Step partners Beth Clavenna-Deane (52) and Kay Clark (74) talk about their careers and changes in their political views.

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.

One Small Step partners Tyler Cherry (23) and Joyce Lanning (78) discuss growing up in Alabama, religion/spirituality, and their college experiences.

One Small Step partners Ameya King (31) and Andrea Williams [no age given] talk about their childhoods in Singapore, cultural differences, and their families.

One Small Step conversation partners Elizabeth "Betsy" Walsh (61) and Brian Kawczynski (42) share stories from their upbringing, discuss the unhoused population and the complexity of legalizing marijuana.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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