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Board of Directors Storytelling Project: Our sixth and final StoryCorps conversation is between SFV Board Co-chair Gretchen Addi and Board member Marcia Weisbrot. Although they have different professions, Gretchen and Marcia share a background in creative and visual arts. They...

Moxie (16) asks their Yaya/ Grandma, Catherine (76) about her interests, connections, and passions. Around 1 hour and 10 minutes long, though it discusses events spanning decades.

Rose and Stacey talk about meeting in 2005 when they worked at Scala's Bistro in San Francisco, they talk about the ups and downs of working in restaurants, what they learned, and Rose talks about her award winning pear gallette.

Dr. Gupta was unsure of what she wanted to work on after finishing medical school, but she found her calling and is now the Open Innovation and Community Applications manager at NASA headquarters. Listen to Dr. Gupta talk about her...

Seto You, age 92/93 or 97/98, is interviewed by his son, Ed You, age 26, about his early days in the USA. He arrived from China in 1916, worked as a cook in this country well into his 80's. He...

Lauren and Rich talk about the moments that stand out in his life and what he learned from them.

I talked to my Nani and she told me about her struggles as a child with losing her father, brother and mother. She went with her siblings at the age of 18 to live with her uncle. Shortly after, she...

Bernice Palmer (103) talks with a volunteer, Andrew Golonka (17), about Covid, her life experiences, and more: 2020-11-03 23:40:13

Masashi Niwono (32) talks with his friend Del Ray Cross (46) about how they both dated the same person and what they have learned about love and relationships since then.

Jonathan Koshi (39) talks with his wife Jess Hemerly (33) about volunteering with 826 Valencia to teach elementary school youth in San Francisco about creative writing.

One Small Step partners Emma Mitchell (37) and Andy Ranazzi (60) have a conversation about the state of political discourse, navigating politics and family, and the citizen vs. the citizenry.

MaryBeth Shaw (63) and John Shaw (77) speak about their marriage, the challenges they have faced, and the business they have built together.

Shane Carter: 2020-06-04 18:52:58

One Small Step conversation partners Anne Slater (81) and Janet Lewis (62) have a conversation about their families, careers, hobbies, and daily lives. They bond over shared experiences of returning to school later in life and the joys and challenges...

Colleen Mahoney (89) is interviewed by her daughter, Nancy Mahoney [no age given], about her parents, attending college during the 1940s and '50s, and her journey from a Republican ideology to a Liberal one.

Paulist Father Ricky Manalo's main ministry is music. But he's also a teacher at Santa Clara University, and around the world, about liturgy and culture. He writes reflections in the devotional book "Give Us This Day." Fr. Ricky is of...

Michael King is a Senior Research Associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. He previously worked at NASA for 3 decades in a variety of roles, including Senior Project Scientist of NASA’s Earth...

In honor of Latino/a and Hispanic Heritage Month, San Francisco Village Wellness coordinator Jessica Da Silva (34) interviews SFV member George Woyames (77) about what he would want other generations to know about being Latino in his generation.

Halicue Hanna (50) talks to StoryCorps facilitator Jeb Backe (26) about her spiritual path to Hoodoo. She reflects on her family roots in Mississippi, her connections to her ancestors, and her experience practicing Afro-Cuban dance.

Meet Brian Campbell, a NASA Senior Earth Science Specialist who works with satellite missions like ICESat-2, SMAP, GPM and with the NASA GLOBE Program, including the NASA GLOBE Observer Citizen Science App. He is passionate about making the plethora of...

Dana Bolles works for the Science Engagement and Partnerships Division at NASA Headquarters. She was first hired as a Payload Safety Engineer with the Kennedy Space Center and since then, has worked at four NASA centers in mission support roles...

Sebastian Lopez Bossi interviews Amadeus Regucera, who mentored him, about Amadeus's Musical Journey.

Michelle Monterrosa(26), conducted an interview with her grandmother Dolores Lopez who is (101), and my Tia Blanca Monterrosa. Dolores shared her experiences from growing up in El Salvador and coming to San Francisco in the 1980s.

The life of Jim McConnell and those of the people whose lives he’s been a part of.

One Small Step conversation partners Catherine Montalbo (60) and Linda Frost (59) talk about growing up in liberal and conservative households, changing their political beliefs, relocating to the south, and gender identity issues.