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One Small Step conversation partners Frank Surface (66) and Dontrese Brown (48) talk about family life, the media, politics, and stepping out of their own bubbles.

One Small Step conversation partners Anushka Karote (37) and Biju Kalarikkal (48) discuss their religious differences and commonalities.

Don Gaede [no age given] and One Small Step partner Nicholas Gonzalez (28) talk about their political concerns, mentors, and occupation.

One Small Step conversation partners and siblings Nancy Harness (66) and Eric Keller (57) talk about growing up in the same household at different time periods and how that shaped their differing world views. They also discussed the Covid vaccine,...

Kristin Szakos (62), a former Charlottesville City Council member, has a chat with One Small Step partner Joseph "Joe" Thomas (58), a conservator talk show radio host, on their overlapping and varying experience that have shaped their beliefs politically.

One Small Step conversation partners Rodney "Rod" Thornton (72) and Dorothy Thomas (67) talk about their memories growing up outside of California, their moves to Fresno, their path to retirement, and their political views.

One Small Step partners Nicholas Palisch (43) and Stephen Burdett (62) talk about their political views, major life moments, and their careers.

One Small Step conversation partners Pamela Rhett [no age given] and Ursula Baker [no age given] discuss their upbringings in parts of Georgia, and the changing political landscape that has both of them concerned.

One Small Step conversation partners Stefanie Jochman (35) and William "Bucky" Neal III [no age given] discuss how their backgrounds influenced their beliefs and where they align and don't on different issues.

Louraiseal McDonald (45) and Toni Trees (74) are two strangers who sat down for a One Small Step Conversation. They talk about lessons learned from their mothers, their love of their professions, and the importance of black history.

One Small Step conversation partners Hydg Hardin (73) and Michael "Mike" Grow (76) discuss their lives and beliefs, as well formative experiences in college, travels, childhood moves, and impactful experiences shared with their grandparents.

One Small Step conversation partners Mary Lee Beal (79) and Nanette O'Neill (49) discuss their frustrations with politics and how hard it is to talk to people with different political beliefs to the extent that both tend to avoid political...

One Small Step partners Michelle Ferguson (38) and Alexa Saunders (75) talk about their different upbringings, politics, and literature.

One Small Step conversation partners, Asha Immanuelle (48) and Gbolade Okestra Soneyin (43), speak about their lives, religion, and the state of affairs in the world today.

One Small Step conversation partners Deedee Miller (75) and Kent Stehlik [No age given] disucss influences in their lives, politics, history and education.

One Small Step conversation partners Marian Shapiro (78) and Robert Price (73) discuss their belief systems, their families, their political involvement, their concepts of racism, their environmental advocacies, about the functioning of the government, about words that discriminate, and about...

One Small Step conversation partners Jane Holwerda (60) Noor Kheryl (38) discuss the immigrant journey, Somalian culture and political situation, democracy, their families and their hopes for the future.

Anita Stratton (78) and her One Small Step partner, Teresa Duke (63), share anecdotes from former times and their political concerns.

Melvin Johnson (65) and Darryl Hicks (67) share their common experiences driving trucks, growing up black, and the joy and importance of having conversations with different kinds of people and not making assumptions.

One Small Step Conversation partners Mary Petz (74) and Bob Carter (77) talk about the impact of their faith in their lives and discuss their views on abortion.

One Small Step conversation partners Larry Kirchmer (76) and Grace Dang (23) talk about mental health, generational differences, and agnosticism.

One Small Step conversation partners David Cooper (69) and Andrew Allen (21) have an intergenerational talk about their faith, their careers, social support and political views.

One Small Step conversation partners Ellen Wells (73) and Aaron Doll (51) talk about Aaron's transgender child, civil discourse, and the role of government.

One Small Step partners Eric Terashima (53) and Sam Wheeler (53) talk about their careers, the people they most admire, and their political values.

One Small Step partners Kenzie Brant (21) and Trish Hileman (47) talk about STEM, nationalism, LGBTQ rights, and the lack of political options in the United States.