During our March interviews, we quickly realized that the conversations we were provoking at the start of this project, which felt meaningful in a time of coarse political discourse, felt more urgent. Even a 5th grade girl with a love of rivers, animals and Lake Michigan, our youngest subject yet, understood the stakes. Mimi Zippel cried when I asked her about democracy, took a moment to gather herself, and insisted on continuing when I told her we could stop the interview. She goes to Highland Community School and was nominated to our project by her art teacher for being a good listener and for caring deeply about fairness and her classmates.