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Mary Gordon on the Roots of Empathy

By Mary Gordon | July 2011 | TRT 48:27

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Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon is the founder and president of Roots of Empathy and the author of Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child.

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