In 2019, 250 cyclists travelled to the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, mounted their bikes and re-traced the treacherous journey of 84-year old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski as a collective act of empathy called Ride for the Living. This ride “from darkness to light” inspired an examination of Humanity’s equally treacherous journey between the two extremes of our nature--Dehumanization to Empathy--and what we might do in 2023 to help the light prevail.