Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas is immediate past president of the World Communication Association and professor and chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She is author of Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective, coauthor of Intercultural Communication: A Text with Readings and Intercultural Communication Roots and Routes, as well as coeditor of Dr. Martin Luther, Jr and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse. Her coauthored book, Intercultural Communication between Chinese and North Americans, is forthcoming in 2019. Her teaching and research areas are communication in black America, empathy and conflict, intercultural communication, civic engagement and pedagogy.