In this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were grateful to have the opportunity to talk to Kacie Lucchini Butcher, a public historian and award-winning museum curator who is the director of UW-Madison’s Public History Project. With the rise of a renewed civil rights movement this summer, we thought now would be a perfect time to talk about the mission of the project to acknowledge and recover “the stories of those who experienced prejudice and bigotry on the UW-Madison campus.” Bringing us into the contemporary moment, we asked Kacie to share with us her research and insights about how students, staff and faculty feel about the campus climate not only based on what happens on university grounds but in Madison more generally. We found her advice as an oral historian to listen to people’s stories and lived experiences with an empathetic mindset and willingness for open dialogue helpful in thinking through so much of what is happening in our world today. We learned a lot from Kacie, and hope you will too.