Sentence:  Ms. Seltzer has talked about being “torn,” about wanting somehow to <WSD>ventriloquize</WSD> her subjects, to “put a voice to people who people don't listen to.” Ms. De Wael has similarly referred to a longing to be part of the group to which she did not, emphatically, belong: “I felt different. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism.