Braver Angels Arkansas describes itself as “a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America. We try to understand the other side’s point of view, even if we don’t agree with it. We engage those we disagree with, looking for common ground and ways to work together. We support principles that bring us together rather than divide us.”
They invited our director, Gwen Ford Faulkenberry, to sit down and have a conversation about the work we do at Arkansas Strong. In these two podcasts, Gwen answers questions about her experiences as a teacher and writer in rural Arkansas, and how the heartbreak of her doomed political campaign led her to find her voice at Arkansas Strong and as a newspaper columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.