BEI Podcast
Bigotry, Exclusion & Ignorance names the forces that block empathy and asks how something better can be built.
Empathos Media
We remember who we are to one another.
Empathos Media creates thoughtful, fact-based stories and community experiences that explore the fullness of American life, including the truths that inspire us and the truths that challenge us.
Our Purpose
Telling the Rest of the American Story
Stories can help us see what arguments cannot. The stories we tell about who belongs, who matters, and who deserves dignity shape the world we build. Empathos offers a fuller account of the American experience, including history that inspires us and history that asks more of us.
Empathos centers women's voices because those voices have too often been minimized or left out. The work is women-centered, not women-exclusive, and welcomes men who are willing to listen, learn, and participate with respect.
What We Do
Where the mission comes to life
Empathos works through editorial voices that tell difficult truths and community programs that turn those truths into participation, relationship, and action.
Editorial voices
BEI Podcast and Wyzwoman Says use conversation, commentary, poetry, and story to examine American life.
Community expression
Everybody As Our Own (EBAOO) turns the philosophy into participation and action, including Hear & Now Conversations.
A shared approach
Across both branches, difficult truths are told with empathy, dignity, and respect for the humanity of the people involved.
Editorial voice
Editorial voice
Coming soon
Wyzwoman Says
A forthcoming home for spoken word, poetry, commentary, essays, and stories centered in women's experience.
Community expression
Everybody As Our Own
The community expression of Empathos, turning shared principles into participation, relationship, and action.
Watch & Listen
A first look at the BEI Podcast
Step into the candid, fact-based conversations that define the BEI Podcast's approach to race, justice, healing, and belonging.
A first look at the BEI Podcast
Step into the candid, fact-based conversations that define the BEI Podcast's approach to race, justice, healing, and belonging.
Watch on YouTube“We can repair what's been broken and begin a healing process.”
You are welcome here
Join a community committed to honest conversation, kinship, and the patient work of understanding one another.
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