The Wisconsin Empathy Project
A nonprofit organization dedicated to building a culture of curiosity, deep listening, and fellowship through engaging in the practice of empathy.
Our Mission
The Wisconsin Empathy Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a culture of curiosity, deep listening, and fellowship across Wisconsin. We promote empathy as a practice—one that is active, ongoing, and essential. Through experiential learning, creative publications, and public engagement, we engage with empathy to foster personal transformation.
What We Do
Teaching empathy as a practice.
The Wisconsin Empathy Project is built around an interdisciplinary university course that focuses on empathy. We don’t teach empathy as niceness, sympathy, agreement, or service to people whom society deems morally or socially deserving. Instead, we ask students to do something much more demanding: to look through another person's eyes.
Through reading, writing, conversation, interviews, a wide range of exercises, and deep self-examination, students learn to see themselves more clearly, and to see others more clearly, too. Importantly, students are never asked to agree with others, approve of others' choices, or abandon their own convictions.
Meet the Team
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Jacqueline Stuhmiller
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Tiff Polzin
SECRETARY
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Wren Stevens
VICE PRESIDENT
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Sydney Steinbach
TREASURER
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Aleyna Irem Karacan
INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
Want to Get Involved? Contact Us!
For general inquiries, use the box to the right.
For information about teaching a Wisconsin Empathy Project class, contact Jacqueline Stuhmiller at stuhmill@uwm.edu.
We look forward to hearing from you!