Wheatley Institute and BYU Political Science Department are pleased to host Mónica Guzmán as the keynote speaker for the Peace Conference. More details to come.
Speaker Bio:
Mónica Guzmán is a bridge builder, journalist, and author who lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions. She’s founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, an organization working to build a world that sees itself; Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, the nation’s largest cross-partisan grassroots organization working to depolarize America; and host of A Braver Way, a podcast that equips people with the tools they need to bridge the political divide in their everyday lives. Her book, "I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" has been featured in The New York Times, the Glenn Beck Podcast, Reader's Digest, and U.S. News named it one of the 10 best books to read before college. Mónica received an honorary doctorate degree from Wheaton College, and completed study and research fellowships at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, where she researched how journalists can rethink their roles to better meet the needs of a participatory public, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and the University of Florida, where she worked with researchers to better understand ways to employ techniques described in her book to boost understanding. Mónica serves as an advisor for Starts With Us and the Generations Over Dinner project, is on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Multipartisan Education, and plays a barbarian named Shadrack in her besties’ Dungeons & Dragons campaign. A Mexican immigrant, Latina, and dual US/Mexico citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two kids and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents. Read more about her and her work at moniguzman.com.