Cris Beam, assistant professor at William Paterson University and writer (To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, I am J), turns to the concept of empathy and how it’s used in marketing, criminal justice, classrooms, and in her own life, in her new book, I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018).