In her TED talk “The radical act of choosing common ground,” Dream.Org CEO Nisha Anand talks about criminal justice as an issue across party lines and about the necessity of choosing common ground. Her speech was powerful and hit on what I believe is the key to creating lasting change in criminal justice. But five years have passed since her talk, and a lot has changed. In a political climate that feels like it’s hurling faster and faster toward greater polarization, what does choosing common ground look like today?