Mother of five and grandmother of ten, Tami Pyfer is a high-level Utah Republican appointee and long-time member of the Tabernacle Choir who is both alarmed and motivated by the toxic outrage in politics today. Instead of turning away from the discord, she is doing something about it. With her colleaugues Tim Shriver and Tom Rosshirt, Tami co-created the Dignity Index: an eight-point scale that scores speech along a continuum from contempt to dignity. Their goal? Inside ten years, “dignity” will be seen as a winning strategy in politics and policy-making, and how we treat each other will be seen as a mark of patriotism, a measure of our well-being, and a key indicator of the future.

We will watch as Tami takes the Dignity Index into some extremely conservative republican spaces around the country with surprising results.

 Mónica Guzmán is Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America; host of A Braver Way, a podcast that equips people with the tools they need to bridge the political divide in their everyday lives; founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, an organization working to build a more curious world; and author of I Never Thought Of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times.

Monica, whose parents are both Mexican immigrants who are at the other side of the political spectrum from her, has struggled to maintain a relationship with them given the wide political gulf between them. But through her work, Monica and her parents have found a way to stay in each others lives in deeply meaningful ways despite their ideological differences.

Sarah McBride has been a Democratic member of the Delaware Senate since January 2021.  In that role, she has led the way in passing bold policies that make government work better for families and workers, and she’s done so by bringing people together. From healthcare to paid leave, she’s united Republicans and liberal Democrats, small businesses and labor, advocates and experts. 

On November 5th, 2024, Sarah was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives making her the highest ranking elected trans person in the United States.  In her new role, will she be able to continue her bipartisan approach in an increasingly partisan world?

Wilk Wilkinson is a husband, a father, a Christian conservative, and a proud truck driver.  He grew up poor, mostly in rural towns around the upper Midwest, and he’s been working since he was 10 years-old. 

As the host of his DERATE THE HATE podcast, Wilk believes strongly that we cannot control everything that happens to us in life, or in Washington DC., but we have the absolute responsibility to control how we will react to it. Civility does not require that we force our opinions on others, demand like mindedness, or hate those with whom we disagree.  Instead, we simply need to see the humanity in all people despite our differences.