On Monday, Donald Trump signed executive orders to require states to comply with federal immigration regulations or have their federal funds withheld, require commercial motor drivers to be proficient in English, and protect law enforcement officers. To discuss, we SPOTLIGHT Andrea Ritchie. Ritchie has authored numerous research reports, articles, and opinion pieces on policing, criminalization, mass incarceration and immigration enforcement. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women, and Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, The Root, MSNBC, NPR.
On Monday, the House passed the "Take It Down" Act, a bipartisan bill to protect victims of deepfake nudes and revenge porn. To discuss, we FEATURE Asia A. Eaton. Eaton is a professor of psychology at Florida International University (FIU), where she runs the Power, Women, and Relationships (PWR) Lab. She is also the head of research for the nonprofit organization Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), which is working to understand and end cyber abuse. As a feminist social psychologist, Eaton studies how gender intersects with identities such as race, class, and sexual orientation to affect individuals’ access to and experience with power in (a) intimate partner relationships and (b) the workplace. Media includes: The New York Times, Forbes, Science Magazine, BBC.
The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (the MAP) has been working to mail abortion pills to people across the U.S. The Map has been working under "shield laws" which protect abortion providers from being prosecuted in states with abortion restrictions. It is expected that New York will be sued by Texas over the shield law. To discuss, we FEATURE Shireen Rose Shakouri. Shakouri is deputy director of Reproaction, where she helps lead their work increasing access to abortion and advancing reproductive justice. She is trained as an abortion doula and serves as a clinic escort at a D.C. clinic. She is Iranian and Italian-American, and has a fire in her belly for reproductive justice work largely driven by a commitment to affirming the leadership of Earth-colored people, with direct action and direct service as her favored tools. She is also an at-large board member of Abortion Care Network. Media includes: HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Bitch Media.
Mark Carney has won Canada's election and will be the next Canadian Prime Minister. To discuss, we FEATURE Heidi Tworek. Tworek is professor of international history and public policy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Tworek is committed to bringing a historical sensibility to policy discussions. She has testified before several Canadian and international parliamentary committees on hate speech, democracy, and the digital economy. Media includes: The Atlantic, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, CBC, CNN.
On May 7th, Roman Catholic cardinals will begin their conclave to elect the next pope. To discuss, we FEATURE Maureen Day. Day is the associate professor of religion and society and a research fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture as well as the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California. With training in theology and the social sciences, her teaching and research areas include Catholicism, family, young adults, social ethics, pastoral practice, and religion in American civic life. Day is author of Catholicism at a Crossroads: The Present and Future of America’s Largest Church, Cultural Catholics: Who They Are, How to Respond, Catholic Activism Today: Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice and Young Adult American Catholics: Explaining Vocation in Their Own Words. Media includes: Wall Street Journal, National Catholic Reporter, St. Anthony's Messenger.
At least 68 African migrants have been killed by a U.S. air strike in Yemen. To discuss, we FEATURE Marla B. Keenan. Keenan's areas of expertise focus on issues relating to international security, including human rights in armed conflict, protection of civilians, civilian harm tracking and analysis, and civil-military relations in armed conflict. She is a principal advisor of Civilian Harm Mitigation & Response (CHMR) at CNA Corporation. Keenan was previously senior director of policy and advocacy and senior director of programs at Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), a Washington, DC-based NGO working on armed conflict and the protection of civilians. She led the design, management, and successful implementation of outcome-focused field programs in active conflict zones. Media includes: Rolling Stone, Thomson Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, Buzzfeed.
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