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UVA students, Kendal Johnson (21) from Hampton, Virginia, and Maeron Kebede (21) from Mclean, Virginia recorded a One Small Step Conversation as part of their course 'Lead From Anywhere.' They explored our experiences discovering politics and refining our political beliefs...

Isaac Kornfeld’s life

One Small Step conversation partners Amanda Smith (38) and Peter Wood (73) have a conversation about relationships, racism, and the issue of political polarization within the United States.

One Small Step conversation partners Donna Slaughter (72) and Ellen Rennels (73) have a conversation about education and how to talk to people of differing beliefs.

Filomena Marinelli, 62 years old talks about living with her Italian immigrant parents. She explains what it was like for them coming to America. They came after world war ll for a better life and they worked hard for it.

I interviewed my uncle Michael Ellis he lives in Hawaii and is here for the holidays, I also interviewed Alexis Bierman my twin sister that lives with me. They are my two favorite people and I am blessed that I...

I interviewed my grandpa, his name is Dale Przybilla. He is 78 years old. My name is Emily Boser and I am 15. We talked about his parents and what it was like for him growing up, how he met...

An interview between Apollo Huddleston (grandson) and Barbara Armstrong (grandmother). Questions about her life, experiences, and past moments.

Ella Jones, age 11, interviewing Patricia Jones, age 78.

this interview talks about my mom who’s name is Norma who is 46 yers old and how her life has changed her. i ask her a lot of different questions that talk about her life and how she gre up...

I (Male 18) talk to my Significant Other (Female 17) about her family's past and how they ended up in Oklahoma, and also some relationship tidbits.

One Small Step participants Shasta Steinert (28) and Arvin Fontarum (38) talk about not being fully represented by either political party, the way people express their beliefs to others, and how learning and experiencing more has shaped their beliefs today.

One Small Step conversation partners Jason Smithberg (47) and Francine Oputa (70) talk about race relations in the US, the current political divide, and their social and political views.

Della Kostelnik Juarez (61) tells her daughter Julia Juarez-Kostelnik (22) about her experiences participating in a voluntary bussing/racial transfer program as an elementary school student in Seattle. Della describes how being the only white kid in a predominantly Black school...

One Small Step partners Charles "Charlie" Dyson (80) and Dennis Green (64) discuss their faith, their and judgement and acceptance of people in society and church, and how we can try to heal from the division.

I took the time to interview my sister experience as being a white daughter and with a brown mom. (May 14, 2023)

Mary Hammond (64) and her husband, Kevin Kuroda (63), reminisce about the time they flew to France to retrieve Kevin's late Uncle Robert's class ring which would have them build a family bond with a stranger and retrace Robert's military...

Growing up in Milwaukee and Nigeria and how her husband and her were treated different based on race

Henry Rutledge Laurens [no age given] and James E. Lockemy (72) talk about Henry's ancestors, John Laurens and Henry Laurens, Jr.

Colleagues Thomas S. Tisdale (83) and Anne Mitchell (60) talk about South Carolina's history and their personal projects of tracing family genealogy.

One Small Step partners and Oklahoma City residents Janice Martin (66) and Bert Belanger (65) discuss how their lived experiences have informed their perspectives on race, gender, abortion, adoption, and faith.

Interviewed my mom for English project.

Friends Norman Hatter (79) and Steven McCutchan (80) discuss meeting civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., and Stokely Carmichael. They talk about guiding their churches through racism and racial equity as they both have served different types of Christian...

One Small Step conversation partners Bonnie Clause (79) and Rev. Arnold Thomas [no age given] have an open and honest discussion about race.

Sherri Taylor (67) interviews her father, Vernon Frank Reeves (96), about what it was like being an educator in Okeechobee County, Florida during integration. They also talk about Vernon's childhood in Okeechobee and remember some characters from his hometown.