Author Michael McRay reads from his upcoming book, I Am Not Your Enemy: Stories to Transform a Divided World. For this book, Michael McRay traveled the world to places like Israel, Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa to interview activists, peacebuilders, and former combatants about their personal experiences with conflict, justice, and reconciliation. I Am Not Your Enemy: Stories to Transform a Divided World is a collection of those interviews as well as Michael’s own experience with his travels and forming deep relationships with the people he met along the way.

Michael McRay also works for the global empathy nonprofit, Narrative 4. Narrative 4 brings people across the world together by creating a network for people to share their personal stories with one another. Through story exchange, people use their stories to build empathy, shatter stereotypes, break down barriers and ultimately, make the world a better place.