Most days, Marzieh can be spotted at her shop in Paris’s 5th arrondissement, Les Trésors de Perse, where she brings Persian crafts and the beauty of Iranian culture to the French capital. If it’s not too busy, she might be chatting with other local shop owners, sharing tea and cake. When she’s not working, you may see her walking along the Seine if the weather is nice, hopping on her boyfriend’s scooter on the way to a movie or a new museum show, or at the gym, where she strength trains with friends. Here, Marizeh tells us about growing up in Iran, being one of eight siblings, and getting signed up for a dating app by her daughter.

Cheesemaker, farmer, and clinical psychologist Tamara Jo Hicks is likely to be spotted in the small town of Tomales in West Marin, 60 miles north of San Fransisco’s Bay Bridge. She and her husband run the beautiful Toluma Farms & Tomales Farmstead Creamery, producing award-winning cheese and working to build a healthy community and a healthy ecosystem. Across the Bay, they run Daily Driver, a beloved local bagel business with an on-site creamery. We talked to Tamara about growing up in Oklahoma, her great-grandmother’s chocolate cake, and the art of making cheeseboards.

Kim Dadou Brown moved around frequently as a child, but Rochester, New York always felt like home. Now that she’s back after seventeen years in prison, Kim, a survivor of domestic violence and advocate for survivors like her, can be found shopping at Goodwill, speaking to lawmakers, or traveling the country as an expert speaker on domestic violence and the impact of criminalization. We talked to Kim about hanging out with her cool cousin in high school, finding love in prison, and making a world where survivors of domestic violence are heard.