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One Small Step conversation partners Allison Briscoe-Smith (46) and Sue Lani Madsen (67) talk about how political labels and identity labels don't always get to the nuance of a person, and share stories about how they're teaching the younger generations...

Jim Cunningham, Born 1933 is a man of many professions. When Lucas Grey joined by his Uncle Jim Cunningham sat down at a piano for an interview. Jim Cunningham grew up in the small town of Belpre Ohio, and was...

Vanessa Lee shares memories of her father, Sherman Lee. Impromptu interview by Ken Fong, San Francisco 7/7/2019.

Dr. Warren Minami, National Japanese American Memorial Foundation (NJAMF) Chair Emeritus, recounts his early life experience at the Gila River, Arizona incarceration camp and its impact on him and his family, including their later involvement with Asian American causes. Unedited...

A general conversation touching on COVID-19, growing up, and the future.

Anna Escobedo (25) talks with Alexis Terrazas (28) about how she came to the Mission District of SF and the impact of gentrification.

One Small Step conversation partners Carole Goldsmith (57) and Estefania Avalos Chavez (20) talk about the important role education has played in their lives, the role of advocacy in their communities, and the importance of equity and inclusion to achieve...

One Small Step partners Paula Siegel (69) and Terry Hutchison (82) share a conversation about their families, the most influential people in their lives, their work, and their hopes and concerns for the future.

I interviewed my grandmother, who lived in the Oakland/Berkeley area in the 1960s and 1970s, on her personal experience living in a place where the Civil Rights movement was centered around.

Kathryn Mapps: 2021-02-28 19:22:08 In this discussion Kathy and Mingus talk about how their family influenced them to be interested history and politics. Mingus, now a Portland City Commissioner, talked about the experience of running for office during the Corona...

Arista Mozena talking to her Dad Steve Mozena about his pursuit to become an actor in Hollywood.

Wakes, age 7, interviews his Grandpa Paul, a Freedom Rider.

Young adult, college, grad school, career, meeting Dad

Will and his father Jim Johnstone talk about a windsurfing race that Jim competed in during the 1990s.

Eva was eight months old when Hitler come to power. Her father was part of the resistance and fled with her and her brothers to Marseille, France then on to Lyon where he continued to fight for the resistance. Her...

Theodore and his mother Colleen talk about attending marches in support of Black rights in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

The adventures of a kid from Brown’s Flat, CA in Berkeley, the Peace Corps, and beyond

Roberta and Jerry Goldman discuss meeting each other and falling in love in California in 1957.

Two young millennials (well Matthew is a gen z) discussing their lives (debate, prom, and scary stories of childhood trauma)

This is a remembrance of a talented young pianist whose career was interrupted when she experienced a repetitive-stress piano injury during her freshman year at the Eastman School of Music.

One Small Step conversation partners Alex Mozes (43) and Rosie Campagna (45) consider political parties, changing views and the bubbles we find ourselves in, questioning as a means of understanding and coming to one's views, distrust and conspiracy theories, the...

Being on the Berkeley campus in the 1960s and 1970s; ageism and sexism; watching a parent go through Alzheimer's.

Barry Gordon (82) talks with his children Allegra (42) and Jeremy Gordon (36) about stories from childhood, science experiments, and his unique path from physics to the psychology of encounter groups and psychics in the 1970s, and into a career...

One Small Step partners Peter Cohen (71) and Richard Herb (66) share their work in leadership, their views on politics, and their relationship to scholarship.

Growing up as an only child afforded Paulist Fr. Tom Holahan a huge imaginary world, where his creativity was nurtured. He loved the creative life and exploring the world so much that he couldn't see himself taking on the responsibility...