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The cornerstone of my life’s work has been to understand what helps people communicate and collaborate more effectively across human differences. When I first started…
Continue reading → Putting Theory into Practice for Donor-Client Engagements
If you have read my last article on “Consent is a Process, Not (Just) a Form,” you’ll know that obtaining informed consent from our clients…
Continue reading → What Happens When You Can’t Get Consent to Share Stories
Ethical storytelling is not just about good stewardship in acquisition (interviewing)—often the biggest blunders occur behind the scenes: in the editorial process. Of all the…
Continue reading → 3 Steps for Equitable Editing in Storytelling
I’ve written a lot about the principles behind ethical storytelling, how empathy differs from sympathy in storytelling, why exploitative storytelling persists, and how the evolving…
As a follow up to my foundational article, “What You Thought Was Empathy Was Actually Sympathy,” in this article I dispel some misconceptions about empathy…