AJCRADIO
Exposing Injustices Wherever Found
an Organization for Social Justice
Barbara Loe Fisher - Co-Founder & President of NVIC
Barbara Loe Fisher is co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity she established in the U.S. in 1982 with parents of DPT vaccine injured children to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education. Barbara worked to secure vaccine safety and research provisions in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Over the past 40 years, she has been a leader in the vaccine safety and informed consent movement in America and has researched and publicly articulated the science, policy, law and ethics of vaccination to become one of the world’s leading non-medical experts on the subject. Barbara is co-author of the seminal 1985 book DPT: A Shot in the Dark, the founding executive editor of the online journal The Vaccine Reaction, and a podcast and video blog commentator. She has debated more doctors on the subject of vaccination than any other American, including on NBC’s “The Today Show,” as well as on CNN, MSNBC, Fox and National Public Radio. She is a human rights activist defending the informed consent ethic and freedom of thought, speech and conscience, her work was featured in the 2011 documentary THE GREATER GOOD and the 2020 movie 1986: The Act.
Melissa Markoutsis - Advocate against Mandatory Vaccinations
Melissa Markoutsis is a Christian wife and mother from Kenosha, WI fighting for justice. She is a promoter and educator of the truth. She is actively pursuing a lawsuit against the school systems unconstitutional mask mandate. She was recently a guest on The Alpha Warriors and The Ladies of Liberty shows. Melissa created a petition on Change.org regarding ending the mask mandate: https://www.change.org/p/kenosha-unified-school-district-no-mask-mandates. "If you believe a mask protects you, then it shouldn’t matter if no one else is wearing one. We have the right to protect our children from abuse and harm and to not support the mandate," says Melissa.
Brittany Watson - Registered Nurse
Brittany Watson attended Blue Ridge Community and Technical College graduating with her Associate of Science in nursing in December 2012. She started working as a registered nurse in May 2013 at Valley Health Systems in Winchester, VA. She completed her Bachelor's of Science in nursing in May 2020. Her stance on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate as of right now is that it should be a choice and everyone should have medical freedom. "We give our patients the medical freedom to make choices about their health daily. Why aren't health workers given that same consideration?" says Brittany. She thinks it's absurd that this vaccine was approved in less than a year and that they say it's safe and effective.
Eric Reinhart - Anthropologist/Physician/Psychoanalyst
Eric Reinhart is a political and medical anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and resident physician at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is also Lead Health and Justice Systems Researcher at the Data and Evidence for Justice Reform (DE JURE) program in the Research Group of The World Bank. His broader anthropological research traces the constitutive interrelation between modern psychiatric, racial, and aesthetic ideas from their shared origin in 18th-century German anthropology and philosophy to their consequences for everyday practices, incarceration, and policing in the US today. He is completing a historical-ethnographic book project, provisionally titled Subversivity: Racial Overdetermination, Psychiatric Rationality, Aesthetic Suspension. This work is set against a backdrop of the disciplinary formation of urban sociology for which Chicago's racially segregated neighborhoods have been used as laboratory for the production of sociological knowledge for over a century.
Website - https://scholar.harvard.edu/reinhart
Lesley Gabrielle - Community Organizer & Activist
Lesley Gabrielle is a dedicated Honolulu community organizer and activist, focused on social justice through collective action. She collaborates with other individuals and organizations to mobilize efforts in Honolulu, supporting victims and families of victims of police violence and amplifying their demands; holding police to the same system, and the same rules, it holds us accountable to; and demanding transformational, institutional change through collective action. In addition to organizing and activism, Lesley is devoted to improving economic literacy and has been long-time advocate for marginalized youth, having been a Big Brothers Big Sisters' Big Sister of the Year.
Website - https://thehawaiibusinessconsultant.com/
Linda Reed - Interim Director & Associate Professor at the University of Houston
Dr. Linda Reed is a noted scholar in African American history, with an interest in women and the South. She served nine years as the Director of the University of Houston's African American Studies Program at the University of Houston. Dr. Reed teaches courses in America to 1865, America since 1865, and Blacks in the Western Hemisphere. She also teaches courses in Women in the Civil Rights Movement, Desegregation of the South, and African American Women in Slavery and Freedom. Her book, Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, concentrates on the forgotten years of the civil rights movement.
Website - https://uh.edu/
Dana Rose Garfin - Psychologist
Dr. Dana Rose Garfin is a psychologist and faculty in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and the Program in Public Health (Department of Health, Society, and Behavior) at the University of California, Irvine. Her academic work explores how individual-level negative life events and collective trauma effect physical and mental health across the lifespan, and how community-based interventions can alleviate resulting health disparities. Dana has studied a variety of collective trauma including 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombings, hurricanes, earthquakes, the Ebola outbreak, and COVID-19. Dr. Garfin has a particular focus on the role of compounding threats, multiple exposures (including media-based exposures), and how individual-level trauma impacts the way we respond to large-scale events. She also studies how individuals make decisions to promote individual and public health and how community and field-based interventions can promote resilience and adaption.
Websites - https://www.danarosegarfin.com/ ; https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/garfinlab/
Tanique Wright - Former Director of Talent Management
Tanique Wright was wrongfully terminated after suffering a life-threatening stroke from her employment as the Director of Talent Management for Ball Metalpack located in Broomfield, Colorado. She will be sharing her story and how this grave injustice has impacted her life and her family.
Eric Misch - Managing Partner at PBW&HR Inc.
Eric Misch is currently a full-time entrepreneur with over 25 years of general business and management experience. In 2012, he entered the health and wellness industry to educate people about the impact of their lifestyle choices on their physical, mental and emotional health. He has worked in the workforce management industry for 15 years, helping small and midsize organizations find solutions to more effectively manage their employees.
Websites - https://www.pbwhr.com/index ; https://ishoppurium.com/ ; https://www.adp.com/
Tanique Wright - Former Director of Talent Management
Tanique Wright was wrongfully terminated after suffering a life-threatening stroke from her employment as the Director of Talent Management for Ball Metalpack located in Broomfield, Colorado. She will be sharing her story and how this grave injustice has impacted her life and her family.
Carolyn - Former Teacher & Caregiver
Carolyn is a former teacher and caregiver. She's been saddened, at the very least, to see the way this pandemic has affected our world over the past year and a half. She does not intend to dwell on the effectiveness of the vaccine, but rather on how this has become more of an issue of government using fear and intimidation to control individuals and take away their rights over their own bodies. She became personally impassioned about the rights of healthcare workers, as her daughter is a nurse. She has seen firsthand what has happened to our healthcare workers over the past year and a half and how they are being so mistreated now. She wants people to remember that even though healthcare workers are being focused on now, everyone’s freedoms are threatened.
Amber Hand - Activist
Amber Hand is an activist who fights for our rights by organizing protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin for the healthcare workers and their supporters against the mandated COVID-19 vaccination or termination. She organizes and attends city and school meetings to support freedom of choice for masking up, and freedom of choice for the vaccine. Amber is an Administrator of “Stop the Mandate Kenosha Protesters” Facebook group which has over 600 members. Amber participated and organized multiple protests fighting for healthcare workers right to choose.
Del Bigtree - Founder of ICAN & Host of The HighWire
Del Bigtree is one of the preeminent voices of the Vaccine Risk Awareness Movement. His career as an Emmy winning producer of the CBS talk show, The Doctors, changed profoundly when he produced the documentary, Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe, which is credited with igniting a revolution against pharmaceutical tyranny around the world. Now Del's internet news show, The HighWire, is the fastest-growing program in the natural health arena with over 75 million views. His non-profit, the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN, is leading worldwide investigations into drug and vaccine fraud that have already resulted in multiple winning lawsuits against US Government agencies.
Website - https://www.icandecide.org/
Jamie Raskin - Congressman
Congressman Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. This is Rep. Raskin’s third term serving on the House Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the Committee on House Administration. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is also part of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. He delivered emotional remarks at the time, recounting the experience he and his family members, who were visiting him at the Capitol, underwent the day of the insurrection.
Website - https://raskin.house.gov/
Clyde Beasley - Founder of The Prison Reform Project
The founder, director, and CEO of The Prison Reform Project is Clyde Beasley, who himself was wrongfully incarcerated for many years in the state of California. After admittedly making many regrettable mistakes during his life and serving a combined 21 years in state and federal prisons, Clyde is now a fully rehabilitated man seeking redemption as the creator of this powerful platform which is designed to educate and empower both men and women who are caught up in the American prison pipeline. In addition to this web site, he is also the founder of JobsForExFelons and the Prison Reform Channel on YouTube.
Website - https://prisonreform.com/
Tracy Keogh - Writer
Tracy has been a journalist, professional copywriter, mentor and content marketer for over 20 years. She finds it fortunate that her moral compass has aligned with her passion for giving a voice to those who are denied, as a writer for one of the world's largest and most impactful NGOs. She considers herself a creative activist and fervent advocate in the wrongful conviction space. She is currently an activist and marketer for Brendan Ray Dassey, an American boy who was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder, mutilation of a corpse, and second-degree sexual assault. His videotaped interrogation and coerced confession, which he recanted at trial, substantially contributed to his conviction. Parts were shown in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer (2015). The series examined the 2005–2007 investigation, prosecution and trial of Dassey.
Website - https://www.freedomforbrendandassey.com/
Regina Givens - Podcaster
Regina Givens is a podcaster and mother of 3 living children. She has been married for 21 years and works full time in administrative services. She has two dogs and a cat. Her parents were married for over 30 years and her dad passed away from lung cancer in 2015 right after her birthday. He was a veteran of the Navy.
Website - https://houseofxpodcast.wordpress.com/
Michael Avery - Writer
Michael Avery is a freelance writer who lives in Albuquerque. Beginning in 1970, Michael enjoyed a career as a civil rights and criminal defense attorney over four decades, representing clients in jury trials and arguing cases in federal and state appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Michael graduated from Yale College in 1966 and Yale Law School in 1970. He was the editor and a contributing author to We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, a critical review of civil liberties and civil rights cases from the Rehnquist Court, and co-author of The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals. Michael has been politically active since the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-War Movement of the sixties and seventies.
Website - https://www.michaelavery.work/
Jodie Evans - Co-Founder of CODEPINK
Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA. She has been a visionary advocate for peace for several decades. Jodie is primarily focused on sharing a global vision for peace and social justice. Since the start of the 2003 Iraq War, Jodie has traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Jordan on several occasions. On her most recent visit to Jordan, Jodie traveled with a peace coalition to meet with Delegates from the Iraqi Parliament to institute an action plan for peace and reconciliation. Jodie is the co-editor of the book Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism. She is currently writing a book about divesting from the unjust, extractive war economy and building a just, sustainable peace economy.
Website - https://www.codepink.org/jodie_evans
Jarrett Adams - Attorney & Author
Mr. Adams is an author and attorney specializing in criminal defense and civil rights cases, both state and federal, across the country. Mr. Adams was wrongfully convicted of a crime at age 17 and sentenced to 28 years in a maximum-security prison. Mr. Adams used the injustice he endured as inspiration to become an advocate and attorney for the underserved and often uncounted. The next step, following law school, Mr. Adams served as a public interest law fellow under the Hon. Ann Claire Williams, of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Mr. Adams then started as an attorney with the Innocence Project in New York in early 2016. Mr. Adams then launched the LAW OFFICES OF JARRETT ADAMS, PLLC. in 2017 and now has offices and attorneys in New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and an office expected to open in Los Angeles, California in 2022. Mr. Adams is also a co-founder of Life After Justice, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing wrongful convictions and building an ecosystem of support and empowerment for Exonerees’ as they rebuild their lives after exoneration. As an author, Mr. Adams shares a cinematic story of hope and full-circle redemption, in his memoir, Redeeming Justice with a release date of September 14th, 2021.
Website - http://jarrettadamslaw.com/about-jarrett
Darlene McDay - Mother of Dante Taylor
Darlene McDay is a Nurse Practitioner, and a mother who lost her only child (Dante Taylor) in 2017. Dante had been incarcerated at the maximum-security prison west of Buffalo for nearly a year before his death on Oct. 7, 2017, when he was found hanging by a twisted bedsheet in his cell. A photo taken before Taylor’s death showed his face bloodied and deformed. Though the corrections officers who were present initially denied McDay's claims that they had beaten him up, hogtied him, and possibly thrown him down a flight of stairs, a 2020 report from the Commission of Correction cited the findings from the Office of Special Investigations, which “substantiated that Taylor was assaulted by numerous officers" the day before he died, and concluded that official documents associated with the incident had been “falsified by officers.” Fighting for justice and accountability, she worked on the Halt solitary bill which is now signed into law. She is also co-leader of the campaign to End Qualified Immunity in New York State.
Christopher Zoukis - Lead Federal Prison Consultant & Managing Director
The Zoukis Consulting Group is led by Christopher Zoukis. Chris has 12 years of experience as a prison inmate. During that time, he primarily worked in the law library assisting fellow inmates and wrote articles for publications such as Prison Legal News, Criminal Legal News, and the Huffington Post. Chris is also the author of the bestselling Federal Prison Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Surviving the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Directory of Federal Prisons: The Unofficial Guide to Bureau of Prisons Institutions, Prison Education Guide, and College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons. While a practicing "jailhouse lawyer," Chris assisted federal inmates with criminal appeals, civil litigation, and a wide variety of administrative law matters. Chris is now a law student at the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he is a member of the UC Davis Law Review and Trial Practice Honors Board.
Website - https://www.prisonerresource.com/christopher-zoukis-federal-prison-consultant/
Louis L. Reed - Sr. Director of Membership & Partnerships
Louis L. Reed is the Sr. Director of Membership and Partnerships for the REFORM Alliance. Louis is a board-certified addictions counselor and licensed alcohol & addictions practitioner. Louis’s experience in government includes conceptualizing and serving as Director of the Mayor’s Office for Reentry Affairs in the City of Bridgeport, CT. His policy reform experience includes leading advocacy for the historic First Step Act and strengthening reentry practices and services for people returning from prison. Louis is a Council of Criminal Justice trustee and has appeared on CNN, CBSN, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and in national publications. Louis lives in Connecticut, consults in strategic partnerships/organizing, and is a guest commentator on the Law & Crime Network.
Website - https://reformalliance.com/meet-reform/louis-l-reed/
Greg Couch - Operations Commander of Teller County Sheriff's Office
Greg Couch was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK. He wanted to be a police officer since the age of 7. In November of 1990 he was hired on OKC PD as a dispatcher and was accepted into the OKC police academy on April 14,1992. Over the next 13 years he worked a low-income high crime and illegal narcotics area known as NW 10th Street and consistently maintained one of the highest levels of self-initiated activity and made numerous high-felony arrests. In 2006 he retired from the OKC PD. In October 2012 he moved to Teller County where he began in the jail at Teller County SO in November 2012. In June 2017 he became Operations Commander for Sheriff Mikesell. In June 2018 he graduated from the FBI National Academy. He considers this the pinnacle learning achievement of his career and an experience he will never forget. During his 29 years in Law Enforcement, he has earned several achievement/appreciation awards for his actions.
Website - https://www.tellercountysheriff.com/
Ondreya Rivera - Police Officer
Ondreya is originally from a small town in Colombia in the state of Huila. She was born and raised in Colombia and at the age of 17 she moved to the United States with her biological father. Since she was a kid, she was obsessed with law enforcement and wanted to be a law enforcement officer. She always saw law enforcement as a representation of ethical, organized, intelligent people and even heroes and she wanted to be that. Ondreya wanted to protect her community and even her country from their violent pass and to create a better future. Unfortunately, as she grew up in Colombia, she realized how much corruption there was in many levels of their government.
Kathy Morse - Advocate
Kathy Morse is a former detainee at Rikers Island. New York State oversight agency determined that Rikers is so dangerous, it can no longer be permitted to accept inmate transfers from outside New York City. Kathy is one of several people formerly incarcerated at the troubled complex who tells her story in "Rikers: An American Jail." Kathy missed a court date and was picked up and sent to Rikers. During her stay, she was sexually assaulted by 4 detainees while taking a shower to teach her a lesson. They heard Kathy was a snitch. Kathy never reported the assault because, in Rikers, correctional officers retaliate against you for reporting abuse or they just ignore your claims of abuse.
Websites: http://rikersfilm.org ; https://www.closerosies.org/index ; https://vimeo.com/212659765
Greg Couch - Operations Commander of Teller County Sheriff's Office
Greg Couch was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK. He wanted to be a police officer since the age of 7. In November of 1990 he was hired on OKC PD as a dispatcher and was accepted into the OKC police academy on April 14,1992. Over the next 13 years he worked a low-income high crime and illegal narcotics area known as NW 10th Street and consistently maintained one of the highest levels of self-initiated activity and made numerous high-felony arrests. In 2006 he retired from the OKC PD. In October 2012 he moved to Teller County where he began in the jail at Teller County SO in November 2012. In June 2017 he became Operations Commander for Sheriff Mikesell. In June 2018 he graduated from the FBI National Academy. He considers this the pinnacle learning achievement of his career and an experience he will never forget. During his 29 years in Law Enforcement, he has earned several achievement/appreciation awards for his actions.
Website - https://www.tellercountysheriff.com/
Howard Henderson - Director & Professor
Howard Henderson is the Founding Director of the Center for Justice Research and professor of Justice Administration in the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs. Howard is an expert on culturally responsive criminal justice research, program evaluation and predictive bias. Recently, Dr. Henderson served as the chair of the data subcommittee for Houston’s Racial/Ethnic Disparities Committee Data Workgroup supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Henderson serves as an advisor to local, state and federal legislators and a host of criminal justice agencies along with reform-oriented organizations. His research has been cited by Politico, Vice, Aljazeera, Yahoo News, and The Crime Report.
Website - https://www.centerforjusticeresearch.org/team/howard-henderson
Rachel Moran - Associate Professor of Law
Rachel Moran is an associate professor and founder of the Criminal and Juvenile Defense Clinic at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Moran focuses her scholarship on issues pertaining to police accountability, policing reform, and public access to records of police misconduct. Her work has also been cited in CNN, The Economist, Vox, Bloomberg News, and many other media outlets. Moran attended law school at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she graduated with High Honors and served on the law review. Moran previously served as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and coached many mock trial teams, including two national best advocates and the 2015 National Trial Competition champions.
Website - https://www.stthomas.edu/law/facultystaff/a-z-index/rachel-moran.html
Somil Trivedi - Senior Staff Attorney
Somil Trivedi is a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project and adjunct professor of law. He has brought numerous lawsuits against prosecutors and police nationwide and writes extensively on the conflict of interest between them. His work integrates novel lawsuits and amicus briefs with legislative, advocacy, and voter education efforts to change incentives for law enforcement and reduce mass incarceration and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Trivedi was previously a trial attorney at the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section and the United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. Before that, he worked in white collar criminal and regulatory defense, representing clients in investigations before DOJ, state attorneys general, district attorneys, and the U.S. Congress.
Website - https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-criminal-law-reform-project
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Jason Paladino - National Security Investigative Reporter
Jason Paladino is a national security investigative reporter at POGO. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, NBC News, Huffington Post, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, KQED, The Virginian-Pilot, and more. His reporting laid the foundation for a feature-length documentary film, "Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?," screening at film festivals nationwide. He came to POGO from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, where he taught new investigative techniques, FOIA and internet research skills. Jason has experience working with whistleblowers from government, law enforcement, and private industry and is always open to new tips.
Website - https://www.pogo.org
Bill Freivogel - Professor
William H. Freivogel is a professor in the Southern Illinois University School of Journalism, a contributor to St. Louis Public Radio and publisher of the Gateway Journalism Review. Before SIU, Freivogel worked 34 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he was assistant Washington Bureau chief and deputy editorial editor. Freivogel graduated from Stanford University where he was co-editor of the Stanford Daily. Freivogel got his law degree from Washington University in 2001 while working as deputy editorial editor. Freivogel has written academic articles on publishing national security secrets and on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. William wrote a series of more than 30 stories on the legal aspects of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson; the stories won the Missouri Bar’s top journalism award in 2015 and an ABA Silver Gavel in 2016.
Website - https://siu.edu/
Greg Couch - Operations Commander of Teller County Sheriff's Office
Greg Couch was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK. He wanted to be a police officer since the age of 7. In November of 1990 he was hired on OKC PD as a dispatcher and was accepted into the OKC police academy on April 14,1992. Over the next 13 years he worked a low-income high crime and illegal narcotics area known as NW 10th Street and consistently maintained one of the highest levels of self-initiated activity and made numerous high-felony arrests. In 2006 he retired from the OKC PD. In October 2012 he moved to Teller County where he began in the jail at Teller County SO in November 2012. In June 2017 he became Operations Commander for Sheriff Mikesell. In June 2018 he graduated from the FBI National Academy. He considers this the pinnacle learning achievement of his career and an experience he will never forget. During his 29 years in Law Enforcement, he has earned several achievement/appreciation awards for his actions.
Website - https://www.tellercountysheriff.com/
Greg Couch - Operations Commander of Teller County Sheriff's Office
Greg Couch was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK. He wanted to be a police officer since the age of 7. In November of 1990 he was hired on OKC PD as a dispatcher and was accepted into the OKC police academy on April 14,1992. Over the next 13 years he worked a low-income high crime and illegal narcotics area known as NW 10th Street and consistently maintained one of the highest levels of self-initiated activity and made numerous high-felony arrests. In 2006 he retired from the OKC PD. In October 2012 he moved to Teller County where he began in the jail at Teller County SO in November 2012. In June 2017 he became Operations Commander for Sheriff Mikesell. In June 2018 he graduated from the FBI National Academy. He considers this the pinnacle learning achievement of his career and an experience he will never forget. During his 29 years in Law Enforcement, he has earned several achievement/appreciation awards for his actions.
Website - https://www.tellercountysheriff.com/
Tracy Phernetton - Homeless Youth & Social Justice Advocate
Tracy Phernetton is a Writer, Speaker, Homeless Youth Advocate & Social Justice/ Abolish the Death Penalty Advocate. Tracy currently works for the YMCA Youth & Family Services of the greater Minneapolis/Twin Cities area as a life coach and Case Manager for a program called Minor Connect. Minor Connect is the first of its kind in the Nation that works with Homeless Unaccompanied Minors while using collaborative community resources with a Trauma-Informed/holistic approach. Tracy currently has a caseload of 15 active youth. Tracy has 18 years of experience working with at-risk youth, as well as Addiction/Chemical dependency & Crises Intervention. Tracy has an incredible ability to inspire and empower others to be the best they can be.
Tracy Phernetton - Homeless Youth & Social Justice Advocate
Tracy Phernetton is a Writer, Speaker, Homeless Youth Advocate & Social Justice/ Abolish the Death Penalty Advocate. Tracy currently works for the YMCA Youth & Family Services of the greater Minneapolis/Twin Cities area as a life coach and Case Manager for a program called Minor Connect. Minor Connect is the first of its kind in the Nation that works with Homeless Unaccompanied Minors while using collaborative community resources with a Trauma-Informed/holistic approach. Tracy currently has a caseload of 15 active youth. Tracy has 18 years of experience working with at-risk youth, as well as Addiction/Chemical dependency & Crises Intervention. Tracy has an incredible ability to inspire and empower others to be the best they can be.
Tricia "CK" Hoffler - CEO of The CK Hoffler Firm
Tricia “CK” Hoffler is the CEO of The CK Hoffler Firm, an Atlanta-based law firm that specializes in representing plaintiffs in trucking accidents, medical malpractice, wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, civil rights litigation, commercial litigation, employment discrimination, opioid litigation and global commercial transactions. Ms. Hoffler is licensed in 5 states including Georgia, Florida, Virginia, DC and Pennsylvania. To date, Ms. Hoffler has tried and/or settled cases totaling over $800 million. An accomplished attorney, Ms. Hoffler was previously a partner at Edmond, Lindsay & Hoffler, LLP and a partner at Gary, Williams et al. in Florida.
Website - https://www.ckhofflerfirm.com/
Jody David Armour - Law Professor & Author
Jody David Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He is a widely published scholar and popular lecturer. His latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law, looks at America’s criminal justice system – among the deadliest and most racist in the world – through deeply interdisciplinary lenses. Armour also appears as a legal analyst on NBC, CBS, ABC, and many other television, radio, and internet news programs. His award-winning book, Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York University Press) addresses three core concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement—namely, racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration. Armour currently teaches Criminal Law, Accident Law (Torts), and a seminar on Stereotypes, Prejudice, and the Rule of Law.
Website - https://jodyarmour.com/
Brian Ross - Chief Investigative Reporter/On-Air Host
Brian Ross joined the Law & Crime Network as chief investigative correspondent in 2018 after decades of award-winning work at ABC News and NBC News. His reports have exposed government and corporate corruption around the world and helped bring justice to the disenfranchised. Ross is also the author of the New York Times best-selling book The Madoff Chronicles, based on reports for ABC News he produced along with his long-time partner Rhonda Schwartz, who has also joined the Law & Crime Network as Executive Investigative Producer. As a lead investigative reporter, Ross also hosts a weekly show called Brian Ross Investigates.
Website: https://lawandcrime.com/
Cameishi Lindley - Mother of Bryce Lindley
The incident unfolded in April 2019 at Ruth Erikkson Elementary. Cameishi Lindley was shocked when she got a call from Wayne County Juvenile Court. It was about her 10-year-old son, Bryce. The soon-to-be fifth grader was charged with aggravated assault, following a schoolyard game (dodgeball) gone wrong.
"These kids are basically playing a game we all have played," Lindley told 7 Action News. According to a police report, another student was struck in the face with a ball. That student's mother asked that we not use her or her son's name, but told 7 Action News he has a medical condition that makes head injuries especially dangerous. The police report filed after the incident stated Lindley intentionally threw the ball at the boy's face. Later, prosecutors in Michigan decided to drop their charge against a Bryce.
Golda Barton - Mother of Linden Cameron
In September 2020, Salt Lake City police shot Golda Barton's 13-year-old autistic son, Linden Cameron. She had called 911 for help because her son who has Asperger's was having a mental health episode. Barton who had just returned to work for the first time in a year told police her son had "bad separation anxiety" but was unarmed. "I said, he's unarmed, he doesn't have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming," she told the outlet. Barton said two officers entered her home, and, less than five minutes later, she heard them order him to get on the ground followed by several gunshots. Officers didn't immediately say whether her son was alive and later handcuffed him. The shooting left Cameron with injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines, and bladder.
Website - https://www.gofundme.com/f/linden039s-medical-bills?utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
Meralyn Kirkland - Grandmother of Kaia Rolle
6-year-old Kaia Rolle had been arrested at her Orlando school, cuffed, placed alone in the back of an Orlando Police cruiser, then booked and fingerprinted in September 2019, sparking international outrage. Meralyn testified about what her granddaughter has suffered since being treated like a juvenile thug for throwing a temper tantrum in school and then developing childhood PTSD. With Kaia, her mother, and grandmother watching, a Senate committee approved a bill named for her Tuesday that seeks to prevent what happened to her in 2019. The “Kaia Rolle Act” now forbids the arrests of children under the age of 7 in Florida, except in extreme cases involving a forcible felony.
Join us and listen to our hosts discuss the bias shown to the Colorado Springs Fellowship Church (CSFC) by Detective Brian P. Corrado of the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD). Despite the many times CSFC has shown acts of kindness to and support for them, the CSPD has not held Detective Corrado responsible for his biased actions against the church.
Annala d' Diors - NIA CPR Development Manager
Annala d’ Diors is a member of the National Incarcerated Association (NIA) in Georgia. She volunteers as a CPR (Conflict Mitigation and Personal Interactive Rehabilitation) Development Assistant. She has served as the President for Troup County NAACP and the National Chair for Women In NAACP in Alabama. She was the sole owner of a Transportation Management firm until being sentenced unjustly in 2017 to 50 years for a non-violent financial offense in the Georgia penal system. She refused to take a plea and instead exercised her constitutional right to a jury trial. Annala and her family never gave up seeking her freedom, and she was released from prison on May 14, 2019. Since then she has started her own publishing company, authoring and publishing two books: Screaming From The Inside: Incarcerated Women And The Journey To Awakening & How To Prepare A Parole Package: Triggering Your Release From Prison.
Website - https://joinnia.com/
Elizabeth Blackwood - NACDL Counsel & Director for First Step Act Resource Center
Elizabeth A. Blackwood is Counsel & Director for the First Step Act Resource Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). Before joining NACDL, Beth practiced for eleven years as an Assistant Federal Defender and Research and Writing Attorney at the Federal Public Defenders of Western North Carolina. Beth represented clients through every stage of a criminal case. She also handled numerous habeas proceedings and appeals before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to the Federal Public Defenders, she practiced for several years at a large Chicago law firm where she worked extensively on criminal and pro bono matters.
Website - https://www.nacdl.org/
Daniel Moritz-Rabson - Freelance Journalist
Daniel is a freelance journalist whose work has been published in outlets including The Appeal, The Intercept, and Al Jazeera. He covers New York City news and criminal justice. Daniel wrote the following articles about COVID-19 in prisons: ‘A Living Hell’: Inside U.S. Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic & As COVID-19 Spreads in Virginia Civil Commitment Center, Incarcerated Can’t Get Medical Care.
Website - https://muckrack.com/daniel-moritz-rabson/articles
Nicole Porter - Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project
Nicole D. Porter manages The Sentencing Project’s state and local advocacy efforts on sentencing reform, voting rights, and eliminating racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Since joining The Sentencing Project in 2009, Porter's work has been cited in several major media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, and National Public Radio. Porter is the former director of the Texas ACLU’s Prison & Jail Accountability Project (PJAP). PJAP’s mission was to monitor the conditions of confinement in state jails and prisons. Porter advocated in the Texas legislature to promote felony enfranchisement reforms, to eliminate prison rape, and improve prison medical care.
Website - https://www.sentencingproject.org
Bishop Cornelius Bowser - Founder & Director of Shaphat Outreach
Cornelius Bowser, a native San Diegan, grew up in the heart of San Diego and was exposed to gang activity at an early age. His life took a dramatic turn on December 5, 1984 when he decided to turn his life over to Christ. Cornelius Bowser is the founding pastor of Charity Apostolic Church (1995). Cornelius Bowser was appointed as a commissioner to the City of San Diego Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention (2012). Cornelius Bowser is a gang expert witness for state and federal courts. By employing the techniques of de-escalation support, conflict resolution, retaliation prevention, in-hospital spiritual care, in-home support and advocacy, Cornelius Bowser has brought quality community service to many individuals and families impacted by violence.
Website - https://www.corneliusbowser-gangs.com/
Tamika Taylor - Mother of Breonna Taylor
In the months since the 26-year-old woman was killed by three Louisville police officers in March, Breonna Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer, has tried to both seek justice for her slain child. Tamika Palmer is the mother of Breonna Taylor. She is the front face of the Justice for Breonna Taylor movement. The movement started after Breonna was shot by the police in her own apartment. Furthermore, the grand jury decided to provide Tamika with $12 million dollars. However, the culprits weren’t charged. As a result, Palmer has decided to continue the movement.
Brian Rooney - Host of Real Prison Issues Podcast
Brian Rooney served 11.5 years in the Virginia DOC for non-violent property crimes (breaking and entering into stores). He has been "free" since 2018. He considers himself an ex-prisoner turned prison advocate. Trying to make it in the free world and trying to help those on the inside. He advocates for men and women in prison concerning prison conditions, reentry initiatives, parole and probation, etc. He runs a podcast called Real Prison Issues where he speaks about his experiences in prison and as a free man. Brian Rooney was attacked by a police officer in 2004 and he broke his back during this incident.
Website - https://anchor.fm/realprisonissues
Carl Snowden - Civil Rights Activist & Politician
Civil rights activist and politician Carl Snowden was born on June 17, 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1976, Snowden successfully sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally spying on him through the COINTELPRO program which was established by the FBI to keep activists under surveillance. In 1982, Snowden founded Carl Snowden & Associates, a private civil rights firm that specialized in civil rights issues. Snowden has campaigned for numerous local candidates including Janet S. Owens, the first woman elected as county executive in Anne Arundel County, Maryland and Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen.
Website - https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/carl-snowden-42