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Layla Jaime (14) interviews her “soon-to-be step-father,” Israel Encinosa (44). Israel discusses growing up in Miami, FL and his life, business, and family.

Recorded on 6/29/18 at Chabaso Bakery as part of the Bread Breakers project.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

"Well, I had a really crappy childhood, so, I guess, taking my experiences from my childhood, I see the world differently."

Suzann Rodewald interviews Olga Zapolskyy to discuss her family’s transition to the United States. Friendship begins here.

Cherilyn Evans (63) tells facilitator Daniel Littlewood (32) about how she moved from Los Angeles to Ukiah, California.

Recorded on 8/30/18 at Atticus Bookstore Cafe as part of the Bread Breakers project.

"When I used to live in Virginia, there was a lot of homeless people where I used to live, so seeing that kinda shaped my politics."

Recorded on 11/20/18 at the New Haven Free Public Library as part of the Bread Breakers project.

One Small Step partners Stacie Williamson (39) and Adam Barlow-Thompson (38) share a conversation about their families, their faith, their communities, their political views, and about what guides their values and beliefs.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

"Growing up in an Italian-Catholic family, with immigrant parents, immigrant grandparents, helped me to see the world through a blue-collar lens."

"The bombing of Cambodia in 1969 shaped my politics."

We discussed family members and stories associated with them. We also discussed friends and neighbors.

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Sonoma, California, Dani Grippi (14) interviews her mother Tina Grippi (56) about how being adopted affects her life. Tina has always known that she was adopted and is happy that things turned...

"I grew up in a house where there were so many pictures of John F. Kennedy that I thought he was a relative."

Rhoda Justice Garcia (72) talks with her friend Candyce Bennett (68) about childhood memories of growing up during the time of the NASA space program, living at Cocoa Beach, near Patrick's Airforce Base, and Satelite Beach.

I (Ava, 14) interview best friends and neighbors Christopher (11) and Colette (10). Christopher is my brother and Colette neighbor and family friend. They talk about their friendship and their futures.

Alyson Giardini, 41, and her spouse Jackie Stanfill, 51, talk about their relationship, Proposition 8 in California, and their children.

"Memories of The Row"

"How do I encourage conversation across the divide, having been on both sides of it?"