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Vermonters step forward: What we learn from holding conversations across political divides

One Small Step conversation partners Philip Gibbs and Offie Wortham next to each other on a screen.
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One Small Step conversation partners Phillip Gibbs and Offie Wortham during their virtual One Small Step conversation.

On the first day of a new year it’s customary to both look back and look ahead. During this special broadcast, we'll reflect and look forward through the lens of One Small Step, a project that’s taken up a good part of the last year.

In 2021, fifty Vermonters connected with strangers with different political views than their own, in the hopes of finding common ground and learning to see the humanity in one another. Hear some of their conversations as we celebrate what we've learned through participating in this national collaboration, One Small Step.

Broadcast January 1st, 2022 at 12 p.m.

Karen is Vermont Public's Director of Radio Programming, serving Vermonters by overseeing the sound of Vermont Public's radio broadcast service. Karen has a long history with public radio, beginning in the early 2000's with the launch of the weekly classical music program, Sunday Bach. Karen's undergraduate degree is in Broadcast Journalism, and she has worked for public radio in Vermont and St. Louis, MO, in areas of production, programming, traffic, operations and news. She has produced many projects for broadcast over the years, including the Vermont Public Choral Hour, with host Linda Radtke, and interviews with local newsmakers with Morning Edition host Mitch Wertlieb. In 2021 Karen worked with co-producer Betty Smith on a national collaboration with StoryCorps One Small Step, connecting Vermonters one conversation at a time.