“A student recently came into office hours to ask a question about an assignment. I answered it and saw that they seemed reluctant to leave. Suddenly, it hit me that they just wanted to talk about the subject of the class. So I said, ‘This stuff is really amazing when you first learn about it, isn’t it?’ They lit up and said, ‘Yeah!’ We chatted for the rest of my office hours about racial disparities in the criminal justice system. It was great to see that moment when something I care about suddenly catches a student’s interest and we can just talk like two people trying to interpret and understand the world.”