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"I came from an all white area, and going there [UMBC] just opened my mind to other diversity which I had never encountered, which was very challenging but also very enlightening."

One Small Step questions recorded at the IRIS Run for Refugees on 2/3/19.

"Have a sense of humor about it [the world]. Not everything is serious, not everything is life or death. Have a perspective. Don't be afraid to laugh."

"How did your childhood shape your view of the world? The positive view of the world from my parents."

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

"I'm gonna be honest, I'm not really a political person."

"I'm open minded. My mother said 'Just love everything. Exprience everything. Be open minded.'"

"My mother refused to rent a house to a physics professor with a PhD from Trinity because he was black, so I became very Liberal."

"My parents were one Republican, one Democrat. They argued at the dinner table all the time."

One Small Step questions recorded at the IRIS Run for Refugees on 2/3/19.

"Fragile. Life is fragile."

"I did not care in anyway about politics before I started thinking about where the world is headed and what it's gonna look like when my kids get older."

"I think, like, being around some racist people in college, and wanting to speak up about it kinda shaped my politics, and made me realize there's a lot to be done."

"Currently I'm a civics teacher for high school--I teach American Politics, so I try to be unbiased in teaching our youth, and let them make their own decisions."

"Political willpower sometimes isn't enough to trump some of those more urgent moments of inequality."

"My brother-in-law is from Peru and his family is having a difficult time staying in the country as of recently, so that sort of changed how I looked at things."

"I think that it was my neighborhood that helped me shape my politics,"

"They didn't even have a soccer team for girls in Milford growing up, and that was really kind of sad, because I loved playing it in gym."

"I grew up sort of in this bubble, which I think kind of insulated me from politics for a long time."

"I do disagree with some coworkers on some beliefs but I do still respect them."

"I feel that attending college in a big city really helped out."

"When I was five, my mom and my aunt took me to a John Kerry rally in 2004 when he was running for president."

"An experience that shaped my politics would be growing up in Britain with parents with socialist ideas."

"I think having one of my daughters being involved in Hillary's campaign was very empowering."