Lara Schwartz
Director, Project on Civic Dialogue
American University (DC)
Lara Schwartz is the founding director of the Project on Civic Dialogue at American University (DC). She draws on her experience as a civil rights lawyer in her teaching and programming. Her new book, Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life, provides a framework for understanding and practicing dialogue across differences. Schwartz does workshops on academic freedom, free expression, dialogue-centered teaching, and dialogue across differences at schools and other institutions around the country.