Immediately after she delivered an electrifying keynote speech at Pacific Lutheran University’s Wang Center Symposium on March 7, 2024, ACTA’s Doug Sprei interviewed Mónica Guzmán, the best-selling author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. Ms. Guzmán is senior fellow for public practice at Braver Angels. More recently, she became the inaugural McGurn Fellow at the University of Florida, working with researchers in the College of Journalism and Communications to explore ways to help people bridge political divides.
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