Political Empathy Lab Phase II

Welcome to Season 2 of the Political Empathy Podcast hosted by Noah Kocher, PEL research team member and undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. In this series of interviews Noah sits down with students who joined the lab for its second phase, a one-week research trip around Pennsylvania last summer (2025), to talk about their experiences of listening deeply to people across the state. We hope our conversations will give you a sense of what we heard from our fellow Pennsylvanians, how we practice our empathetic listening, and what you can learn from our experience.The Political Empathy Lab is directed by Dr. Lia Howard, a political scientist and Fellows Director, SNF Paideia Program. Season 2 has been recorded in the Wexler Recording Studio at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania. Our producers are Jill Katz, Communications Director, SNF Paideia Program, and Noah Kocher, PEL Research Team Member Phase I + II, and SNF Paideia Fellow. Political Empathy Lab gratefully acknowledges our funding from the Office of the Provost at the University of Pennsylvania and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program at Penn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.