EMPATHY IN LEADERSHIP, NYC

Cultivating empathy in their leadership roles, Honors College and Bucs Academy students explore New York City, July 2022. Created and lead by Dr. Carson Medley, students from the Honors PEAKS (persistence, empathy, authenticity, knowledge, skills) mentor program teamed up with students from the Mary V. Jordan Multicultural Center to spend a week in New York City this summer. They engaged in experiential learning activities that viewed the Big Apple through a lens of empathic and care-driven leadership.

Students explored NYC neighborhoods, engaging with diverse populations to define how empathy enables people to relate to others through cooperation and unity rather than conflict and isolation; gaining new insights into how and why people help and relate positively to one another.