Search Interviews

One Small Step partners Rebekah Keasling (43) and Mike Bayliff (48) discuss growing up in small towns, their differing views on tax policy, and why giving back to community is important.

Susan Metcalf (69) interviews her friend, Erin Lord (26), about her time in the U.S. Air Force.

One Small Step conversation partners Cale Green (31) and Mathew Mulhelm (39) discuss influential moments in their lives, their political values, and pressing issues in Alaska.

One Small Step conversation partners Allen "Al" Parker (78) and Sanford "Sandy" Rabinowitch (70) talk about their former careers, Alaska issues, and their political views.

Spouses, Cyndi Farley (60) and Daniel "Dan" Farley (67), share their love story, reminisce about the many adventures they have had together, and remember JJ, who was Cyndi's first husband and Daniel's close friend.

Tom Beer (52) and Kristi Eilers (42) speak about their 20 years working together on prostate cancer research.

Spouses Scott Nelson (55) and Kristie Nelson (47) discuss his time in the Air Force. Scott started as an Air Force musician and later became an air communications specialist.

One Small Step conversation partners Tamara Moore (46) and Andrea Hulman-Watsjold (31) discuss their careers, political values, and what the biggest issues in Alaska are.

One Small Step Conversation partners Scott Kendall (46) and Leda Borys (36) talk about their political beliefs, upbringings, and self-serving political machines.

One Small Step conversation partners Alexander Bearden (37) and Valerie White (46) talk about their upbringings, political values, and freedom of choice.

Kathryn Grady (51) interviews her mother, K. Jane Duncan (80), about her childhood, her travels, her teaching career, her experience raising two children as single mother, and how her attitude toward traditional gender roles has changed throughout the course of...

One Small Step conversation partners Stephanie Hamar (33) and Gregory Stewart (27) discuss their political beliefs, political divisions, and Alaska issues.

Spouses Susan Means (63) and Phillip Means (63) remember their early life and Phillip's enlistment and deployments, and they reflect together on the joys and challenges of their military connection as individuals and as a couple.

John Hagen and Jessie Morgan talked about teaching and learning culture. John also talked about his art and work, and how that impacts his identity.

U.S. military veteran Dawn Bundick (no age given) speaks with her new friend and StoryCorps Facilitator Tamekia Jackson (36) about her career with the U.S. Navy and her vocation as a public servant.

William "Bill" McMurrin (71) interviews his friend Timothy "Tim" Bywater (80) about his experience working as both a seasonal park ranger with the National Park Service and an English professor. They also talk about their friendship and Timothy's family.

Spouses, Ronald McKee (75) and Carol Wolfe (72), recount the history of Ronald's military service and his time in the Vietnam War.

One Small Step conversation partners Anne Cochran (62) and Polly Carr (50) talk about their political values, children, and issues in Alaska.

One Small Step conversation partners Steve Aufrecht (76) and Jerrad Anderson (40) talk about their backgrounds, political beliefs, and the current political climate.

Friends Twilla Booker (59) talks with Dorothy Garza (63) about Dorothy’s childhood, her family, her time in college, in the Air Force, in Alaska, and Japan, her children, and about the life lessons that she would like to pass on...

John Walsh (69) speaks with colleague Larry Hinzman (62) about their histories as climate researchers, the change in administrative support, the effects of climate change they've seen, and international science.

Spouses Judy Helm Wright (78) and Dwain Wright (83) reflect on their 58 years of marriage and answer questions prepared by their children and grandchildren.

Richard Minott (94) speaks with his daughter Cheryl Simons (60) about growing up in Brooklyn, meeting his wife and his service in WWII.

Heather Sher (40) interviews her grandmother, Rheba Sher (89) about growing up above the family bar in Baltimore, adopting two sons, and retiring at 85. Heather and Rheba now live together.

Brian Brubaker (52) talks to his grandmother Helen Corrigan (98) about their family's legacy of military service. Together, they remember Brian's grandfather and reflect on their relationship with each other.