Undergrad and incarcerated students are learning side-by-side at Marquette. The result is transformative.
By MegAnne Liebsch “You can’t empathize with somebody else if you’re not looking at them in a human way,” says Mahmood Watkins. “You can’t empathize with people who’ve been incarcerated, or are incarcerated, if you’re not looking at them as human beings.” Empathy and encounter are guiding principles in Watkins’s classroom, which brings together students …