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Kip Strauss, HNTB (53) transportation planner of 25 plus years talks to Nada Torabi (41) a first year Iranian urban planning student working on her Masters degree from the University of Kansas. Kip talked about what its like to practice...

"I think actually being named Samuel Adams was probably an experience that shaped my politics,"

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.

"When I moved to North Haven in 1965, and I realized that I was 'other'."

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

"One scene that struck me the most was there was a helicopter leaving Vietnam, and there was a ladder of people."

"The election of Donald Trump turned me into a political activist."

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

"Basically, what I got out of that experience was that racial harmony is a really important thing that can affect anyone."

"I have patients that are losing their homes because of medical bills, and I think that we are a very rich country but our healthcare is a problem."

"At this particular point, I'm very positive; I'm not very scared of anything."

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

"My childhood was filled with every want and need I could ask for, so my view of the world was 'everything and everywhere else was the same', and as I grew older, I realized it wasn't."

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 tend to be pretty central in my political views: not too far left not too far right."

"Sometimes my religious beliefs get in the way of my actual thinking about politics."

"Women didn't have a lot of rights in the '50s and 60's. They started to come around in the 70s."

Recorded at Chabaso Bakery on 6/29/18 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.

"People are less willing and able to breach their comfort zone in order to think about how does the other person think/feel."

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

Michelle discusses her life that veers away from societal norms, the journeys that she’s been through, and how she is who she is today.