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Friends Gail Mondoux (77) and Tracy Shaughnessy (62) talk about Tracy's experience being bused to a predominantly Black school in Tacoma.

Nola (57) talks to Dan (75) about their library and about their favorite books and authors.

Colleagues Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo (41) and Noura Bashshur [no age given] discuss their experiences as women of color in the United States and their work in health technology.

Rick Kilby (55) and his coworker and friend Joy Dickinson (74) share thoughts on history and fact-checking, early career highlights, and their early and current connection with museums.

Colleagues Kay Miller Temple (66) and David Schmitz (53) talk about the Targeted Rural Health Project and discuss how health equity is being improved in rural areas.

Phyllis Rosenblum (78) and Phyllis Plotnick (72) reflect on the start of the Friends group in the Gulfport Public Library. They share the pride in the increase in programming, establishing itself as a cultural hub for the area, and involving...

Beryll Taylor (73) speaks to her wife, Tessie Field Rogers (69), about how they first met. The two reflect on their childhoods growing up in Georgia and retiring to the Gulfport, FL area. They got married a few years ago...

Susan Gore (70) and Brittany Baldwin (32) share where they grew up, the path of their professional lives, work on the library board, and first impressions of one another.

Cathy Salustri Loper (47) and former co-worker Ken Reichart (61) talk about their professional relationship working at the local paper, how Cathy's role changed over time, and the culture of Gulfport.

Friends John Rossi (65) and Patrick Nolan (58) remember their experiences growing up amidst school desegregation efforts in Seattle, Washington.

Nicholas Cochran (27) speaks with his friend Uneeke Ferguson (21) about their involvement at the House of Hagar Catholic Worker Community in Wheeling, WV, and how those experiences have informed their faith. Both discuss their childhoods and the lessons they...

Cody Keenan (35) is interviewed by his friend and colleague, Yohannes Abraham (30), about his experiences working as a speech writer for President Barack Obama.

Best friends, Mary Margaret Wagner (62) and Carol Watt (66), reminisce about their 40 year friendship that began when they were coworkers at Peter White Public Library in Marquette, MI.

Nate Belcher [No age given] speaks to his Oss partner Jack Longo (22) about their differing political beliefs, the authors and thinkers who have influenced said beliefs, and their views on the current political divide.

Lynette Gonzalez (47) shares the passing of her daughter with conversation partner Sarah Norris (47). They discuss the relationship with Montefiore, the impact of organ donation, and how she continues to celebrates the life of her daughter.

Friends and colleagues, Andrea Nguyen (49) and Molly Stevens (57) talk about how they first met, how they ended up in the food writing business and their love for teaching.

Stephen (41) talks to his husband Joshua (33) about being deployed to Iraq and having to keep their relationship secret and about coming out to the public when he asked a DADT-related question during a GOP primary debate in 2011.

Althea Lebert (53) talks with Michael Gordon (37) about 'Jobs for Life' and the way that the Pierce County Library supports this career readiness program.

Friends and community advocates Beverly Nelson (54) and Natalie Rivera (51) speak with Lupe Salazar (51), founder of Barrios Unidos, about their shared connection as mothers of children who are drug users.

Ed Bol (60) shares his experience with busing in Seattle, Washington with new friend Diane Buxton (50). Ed stayed at his neighborhood high school but recalls white friends being bused from Queen Anne, his neighborhood school, and Black students being...

Husband and wife, Oscar Bolda (61) and Maria Teresa Bolda (62), talk about their marriage and working in the medical field both in the U.S. and the Philippines.

Fairolyn Livingston (73) and her granddaughter Andie Adkins (21) reflect on their relationship, and on Fairolyn's life and work in her Winter Park, FL community. They reflect on their similarities in their commitment to community. Then, Fairolyn speaks on her...

Friends Megan Closser (36) and April San Juan (39) share what's it's like to be nurse practitioners and mothers pre- and during COVID.

Natalia Flechsig (37) interviews her grandfather Joseph Nulph (85) about his experience joining the United States Army and fighting in the Korean War.