Between the fall of 2020 and summer of 2021, UHRI ran two series of Zoom-based intergroup dialogues open to participants across the US and beyond, developed in partnership with California-based facilitator Howard Crampton Jr. The sessions drew on the University of Michigan's four-stage intergroup dialogue model, moving participants from active listening and self-reflection through to difficult conversation and the exploration of meaningful action. One series offered general community connection during pandemic isolation; the other addressed racial justice directly, responding to the murder of George Floyd and the long history of racialised violence in the US. Both series rejected debate and academic framing in favour of intentional spaces grounded in inclusion, validation, and the sharing of lived experience. Published in The World Needs Dialogue! Four: Putting Dialogue to Work, the paper documents how a format built for in-person community and school settings was successfully adapted for a moment when in-person contact was impossible and the stakes of unmediated public conversation were unusually high.