Mónica Guzmán

What I've found is that the opposite is almost always the case.

There's a lot of nuance there.

And by bringing your name and your concerns

Mixing it in with theirs, you both get wiser and richer and realize that, oh, this is complicated.

This is I mean, I'm still I feel really strongly about voter suppression.

I feel really strongly about election security.

But now I've talked to someone who's telling me that there's this other piece that's really big for them that I'm probably not thinking hard enough about.

So it's in my years of journalism that I've learned some of the most powerful ways to really understand people.

And I've taken seriously that that's my job.

My job as a journalist is understand this person, where they're coming from, why they support what they support, what have you.

And then hope, hope, hope that I can do a good enough job representing that to their community so that the community can make better decisions.

That's my job.

So you come into this conversation seeking to understand.

And one of the most effective ways to do that is to help people become storytellers.

Not just, what do you think?

Why do you think it?

But instead, OK, I understand this is your position.

What led you to this?

Tell me about that.

Oh, give me an example of when that happened.