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Former Chicago Public Schools teacher Gwenyth talks to current DePaul University student Joe, about her time teaching.
Alexandra Kirshenbaum (35) and husband, Brad Kirshenbaum (35), reflect on the past year on becoming new parents and taking care of their infant during a pandemic.
Linda(63) speaks to her daughter Anastasia (36) about her childhood, genealogy and about being a child with family members on both sides of World War II.
Zainab Kahn (32) speaks to Michael Stark (29) about his childhood and his work as a social entrepreneur.
Sonya Hollins (55) interviews her mother Elvira Bernard [no age given] about Elvira’s decision to go back to school as single mother of four children in order to become a nurse. They also discuss hurdles Elvira faced in the nursing...
Husband and wife Mary Flynn (69) and William “Billy” Flynn (67) recall how they met, billy’s career as a musician. Billy writing music for the movie Cadillac Records, and Beyonce performing his guitar version of “At Last” during the inauguration...
Denise Keegan (71) and her friend Duane Nycz (62) share a conversation about their bartending and restaurant careers, their families, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Soap Lake, WA, the city that they both call home.
Andrea Farber De Zubiria (57) talks with her father Murray Farber (88) about his family history in Poland before he was born, and his experience of growing up in a Jewish immigrant family in New York.
Helen Carlson (87) speaks with her daughter, Dawn Bek (59) about her childhood growing up in Iowa, moving to Chicago and eventually back to Iowa.
Linda Louise Regester (73) has a conversation with friend Chris Brookes (74) about her childhood growing up in Chicago, Illinois, her adulthood living in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, her dad's military service, her husband's military service, and Polish holiday traditions.
Colleagues and friends Terry Batey (46) and Sandra Shimon (50) talk about the successes and challenges of the equity work that they have taken on at the Chicago high school at which they work. They reflect on the lessons they've...
Colleagues Josefina Sanchez (48) and Lilly Barrett (62) discuss their stories of immigration to the United States, their involvement with the Walworth County Wisconsin Literacy Council, the importance of education in their lives, and the ways they give back to...
Alexandra "Nikki" Anderson (26) interviews her grandmother Lilly Bennett (86) about surviving the camps where Polish born Germans were imprisoned after the Holocaust. Lilly talks about following her mother to the camps, the violence she experienced and witnessed while in...
One Small Step conversation partners Matthew Mendenhall (36) and Tom Arthur (47) discuss their shared profession of being a pastor, their call stories and events that shaped their views.
Coworkers in special education William Yadron Jr. (52) and Tiffany Woods (36) discuss equitable curriculum, administrative injustices, limitations of pedagogy, prejudice in the classroom, and gaps in access to resources for students.
Charles Kuner (77) talks about being a white anti-racist educator in a Chicago high school during the civil rights movement.
Tiffany Baker (48) and her former mentor, Terri Treiman (66), talk about their previous StoryCorps interview, Terri’s career in social work, and Tiffany’s career helping youth in the foster system.
Bianca Monzon (29) and her friend and colleague Ambyr Amen-Ra (38) talk about their work at Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Fadil Lee (49) and his wife, Megan Lee (50), have a conversation about their lives, including reconnecting and marrying after having met in college 25 years earlier and adopting a daughter in the past year.
Dan Coyne (61) and his friend, Karen Kring (57) reflect on the last ten years of Dan's life experiences and his perceived takeaways. He talks about donating a kidney to a woman who works at his local Evanston grocery store,...
StoryCorps Facilitator Kiplyn Primus (62) has a conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar (54) about his book, America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy.
Emily Stern (42) talks with Byron Aspaas (38), her friend and former student, about her mother's life and death from complications of HIV.
As a creative scholar she explored how her background informs her creative practice.
Ellen Heimann (91) talks to her second cousin, Hedy Ciocci (74) about coming to the US when she was 10 years old, meeting her husband, work, children, grandchildren, and what her life is like at age 91.
Sheila Roddy (75) and her One Small step partner [No Name Given] [No Name Given] (65) discuss their upbringing, the kindest people in their lives, and their thoughts on the United States - Mexican border.