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Friends and colleagues Tara Sheena (33) and Getaneh Mekonen (33) discuss their childhood experiences, their career turning points toward an MBA program, the importance of collaboration, and the future of business.

Scenario: In this situation you currently just became a police officer and completed all the training within the academy. Today is your first day on the job and they say you will be following Sheriff Lodge. Sheriff Lodge advises you...

Erika, a young woman living in the border between Mexico and the U.S, talks about the feminism movement in Juarez and how it has change her as a woman.

Interview with classmate Jaelin Sepulveda for Intro to Philosophy with Dr. Monica Young De Cantu

One Small Step Partners, Geena Lazzerini (21) and Wendy Joyce-Fenton (59), discuss the need for community, spirituality, and connection as well as their differing views on social issues such a gun control.

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 Miles McCrimmon (58) and Jay McConville (58) discuss their careers and their concerns about their political parties. Miles speaks about his career in higher education and what he's learned from working in a community college....

One Small Step participants Tyler Beam (44) and Sarah Davis (40) discuss their experiences living abroad, what it's like pursuing a second career and master's degree in their forties, their political beliefs, and their spiritual identities.

My great grandmother was a dental assistant in World War II and talks about her experiences and how hectic or normal things could be. She talks about the different people she knew and the different things she learned.

Janet Morrison-Lane (48) talked with her dad, Dave Morrison (75) about growing up in Missouri and some of his life choices.

New friends Russell LeDay (63) and Shira Smillie (26) share a conversation about Russell's life path, his work with San Antonio for Growth on the Eastside, and his hopes for effecting positive change.

One Small Step Partners Marianne Vermeer (60) and Erik Stearns (51) sit down for a conversation about their life experiences and their passions.

As a Black woman, Karen has faced racism in the workplace and has been the only person of color in a meeting many times throughout her career. She shares with Mike what drew her to the DEI work she does...

Deborah Femat (67) tells her son Aden Femat (26) about her father's experiences as a WWII veteran and how his PTSD and alcoholism shaped her and her family’s life. Deborah also shares stories about her grandmothers and her complex relationship...

Davette See (56) interviews her mother, Martha Thomas (88), about her early childhood, meeting her husband, and her favorite memories of Davette.

McKenna Torres (25) and her husband, Jim Torres (26), reflect and share anecdotes on their varying roles being students, teachers, and now a married couple.

Colleagues Emily Gomez (25) and Wendy Diaz (30) discuss their work at Frontera Land Alliance, their passion for conservation, and their hopes for the future.

In this interview, Jacqueline Walker, an English professor in Denton, Texas, discusses her upbringings in rural Georgia and her political activism from an early age. As an African American woman, she offers a very unique historical perspective on several presidencies...

Geoffrey East (26) talks to his friend, Morgan Trevino (28), about his childhood and the idea of identity.

Louie Saenz (66) interviews friend and colleague Keith Pannell (83) about Keith's life, his involvement in public radio, and his career in academia.

Karen Swenson (66) interviews her spouse William "Ken" Cauthern (74) about his decision to enlist in the military, he deployment to Vietnam, and why he decided to leave the military.

Colleagues Victoria Shaw (52) and Oscar Martinez (62) discuss Oscar's military service in the Air Force, his time as a narcotics police officer, and his childhood memories of growing up in Texas.

In the Fall of 2017 -- about seven months before it was widely reported by the media -- a quiet pilot program began in El Paso to separate 'older' children from their parents at the Border. Once it became public,...

A 17 year old boy asks his father questions about himself and some of his favorite memories of the boys childhood.

Facilitator Shira Smillie [no age given] interviews Melanie Thomas (36) and Anthony Thomas (40) about their love story, parenthood, and navigating being in an interracial relationship.