Search Interviews

One Small Step partners N. Garrett (51) and Adrienne Landgraf (75) enjoy a conversation where they explore how they came into their political beliefs and act on their values. They find many similarities between them, including work in the juvenile...

Elizabeth "Liz" Harrison (40) talks with her cousin Nicole Hosein (46) about parenting, diversity, and their experiences with confronting race.

One Small Step partners and long time friends Elizabeth Brady (58) and Jennifer Perrow (53) discuss what they are most proud of in the past year, working in HR and accommodating the hardships people are facing in their jobs, and...

Lauren Rider talks about how she came to Knoxville, her growing connection to the area, and how it became home.

One Small Step partners Caroline Crawford (53) and Amy Gerak (47) discuss their different political views and why someone disagreeing with you doesn't make them wrong.

Pellissippi State Libraries librarian Allison McKittrick talks with Dean of the PSCC Libraries Mary Ellen Spencer about her favorite places and favorite artist in Appalachia as well as what it means to be from East Tennessee.

One Small Step conversation partners, Anne Eastwood (71) and Colin Smith (31), discuss issues of politics and faith across a generational divide.

Friends William Martin (33) and Dany Bright (37) share a conversation about their journeys understanding their gender and sexual identities, coming out, challenges faced by the LGBTQ community, and the work of younger generations in making social change.

"In high school I tried to date girls, but in the back of my mind I knew I didn't want anything more than friendship from them."

Friends Sukaina Hussain (35) and Zakira Jones (22) discuss their upbringings, their faith, and perceptions around their religious practice.

Friends, Reshma Kamal [No Age Given] and Ramatouli Deen (43), look back on their childhoods in India and The Gambia, describe their experiences immigrating to the United States, share how their role models have shaped who they are today, and...

Classmates Pamm McNeil ’82 and Tracy Heather Strain ’82 share their own preconceptions and early encounters with racism on campus during the 1980s, and they discuss how Ethos and Harambee House made class, social, and geographical “crossings” possible, fostering unexpectedly...

Zareen Jaffery (42) talks to her friend Huda Al-Marashi (43) about how the lack of diverse representation in books they read growing up inspired them to go into publishing and writing respectively; challenging stereotypes in publishing - particularly about a...

Sunshine Pray (49) and her daughter, Apryl Yearout (32), share a conversation about their Native American roots, racism, white privilege, and their relationships with their extended family.

One Small Step conversation partners Nate Yoder (52) and Austin Turner (31) talk about growing up in relatively homogenous areas, expanding their point of view, their shifting politics and parenting.

John Quackenbush (49) tells his wife Mary Kalamaras (50) why he became a physicist, how he started to work in the Human Genome Project, where he currently is professionally, and what he hopes his greatest legacy will be.