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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.

My aunt, Michelle, talked about transformative life events and how they made her into who she is today.

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

Donna Lancaster, 78, is interviewed by friend Mindy Reed, 54. Dorothy was born without knee or hip joints and speaks about how her parents raised her to make her own choices and how she overcame the challenges she face in...

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

This is an interview for The Great Thanksgiving Listen 2018. Myself, Alia Yannone, interview my grandmother, Judy Smith in Brigantine, New Jersey on November 22, 2018. We discuss how my grandma grew up and what she has experienced over her...

One Small Step conversation partners Derek Scheuerman (23) and Jay Russell (27) are acquaintances who learn more about each other discussing the commonalities and differences in their upbringings, hardships they've faced, religious identities, gender identities, and goals for the future.

Growing up in LA during 70's-80's

Friends and peers Emma "Scout" Wood (22) and Amanda Mullennix (23) talk about their paths to their religious studies academic program, their research interests, and their personal relationships with ritual and spirituality.

Sisters Charlotte Jones (72) and Lynn Newcomb (69) remember their life and upbringing with their physically handicapped older brother Craig.

Interview of 1940-2020

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

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

Jeff and I talking on the patio of our childhood home. He shares with me lessons he has learned about life.

"Memories of The Row"

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.

the hardest part about immigrating was acceptance. Luckily, Bear moved to SF and got off a plane unlike many of his peers in school who he bonded with over their immigrant backgrounds.

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

Joan Ruskin, 85, talks to her daughter Susan Steinhauer, , about life after her heart attack and what she now considers important in life.

Blood is thicker than water is not the full quote. Blood of the covenant (your friends) is thicker than the water of the womb (family). My interview with a witch.

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.

In today’s society people are celebrating LGBTQ people with parades and festivals, rather than spreading hatred towards them, but this wasn’t always the case. In November of 2018, 14 year old Sofia Brandon-Schwartz interviewed her father, Carlo Brandon to learn...

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.

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...