State and local officials have agreed to release surveillance footage from the Robb Elementary School shooting, stating that it would help the public better understand police response. To discuss, we FEATURE Andrea Headley. Headley is a public management, social equity and criminal justice policy scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on policing to understand how organizational, managerial, and individual level factors affect policing services and outcomes, with a keen focus on inequities and disparities. Specific examples of her past work include assessing police-community relations, analyzing dispositional outcomes in citizen complaints, evaluating the effects of race during use of force encounters, as well as evaluating body-worn cameras. She teaches specialized courses on criminal justice policy and generalist courses on public management. Media includes: Dayton Daily News, Chicago Policy Review, The Conversation, PBS Newshour, NBC.

Steve Bannon, who served as the White House's chief strategist during Donald Trump's presidency, has agreed to testify to the Jan. 6 panel. To discuss, we FEATURE Former Congresswoman Donna Edwards. Edwards represented Maryland’s 4th Congressional District. As the executive director of the Arca Foundation in Washington, D.C., she led the foundation’s effort in support of worker justice at home and abroad, campaign finance reform, government and corporate accountability, and civic participation. Edwards participates on numerous nonprofit boards, including the NNEDV, Proteus Fund/Proteus Action League, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and is a member of the National Governing Board of Common Cause. Media includes: ABC’s Nightline, CNN's Crossfire, McLaughlin One on One, NBC’s Today Show.

Former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was fatally shot on Friday. To discuss, we FEATURE Yuki Tatsumi. Tatsumi is Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center. Before joining Stimson, Tatsumi worked as a research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as the special assistant for political affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington. Tatsumi's most recent publications include Balancing Between Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Views from the Next Generation, Lost in Translation? U.S. Defense Innovation and Northeast Asia. She is also the editor of four earlier volumes of the Views from the Next Generation series: Peacebuilding and Japan, Japan as a Peace Enabler, Japan's Global Diplomacy, and Japan's Foreign Policy Challenges in East Asia. She is author of Opportunity out of Necessity: The Impact of U.S. Defense Budget Cuts on the U.S.-Japan Alliance, co-author of Global Security Watch: Japan, an author of Japan's National Security Policy Infrastructure: Can Tokyo Meet Washington's Expectations?, and an editor/contributing author of The New Nuclear Agenda: Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation, North Korea: Challenge for the US-Japan Alliance, Strategic Yet Strained: US force realignment in Japan and its impact of Okinawa, and Japan's New Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities and Implications. Media includes: The New York Times, PBS Newshour, Al Jazeera, Japan Times, Foreign Policy.

On Sunday, Russian rockets hit a Ukrainian apartment block in the eastern Donetsk region. The attack killed at least 15 people, adding to the death toll of the Russian invasion. To discuss, we FEATURE Marla Keenan. Keenan is an International Security Program Fellow at New America, working to strengthen partnerships between NGOs and academic institutions on research in armed conflict. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center and a senior Advisor to PAX. Her 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. Keenan was senior director of policy and advocacy and previously 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. Keenan has worked on conflict and crisis in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mali, Israel, Jordan, Nepal, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen, and the Central African Republic. Media includes: Rolling Stone, Thomson Reuters, Buzzfeed, Christian Science Monitor.

Last week, Brittney Griner pled guilty to drug charges, though stating that it was not intentional. Griner has been held in Russia since February of this year. To discuss, we FEATURE Valena E. Beety. Beety is professor of law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the deputy director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center connecting research with policy reform. Previously, Beety served as a law professor and the founding director of the West Virginia Innocence Project at the West Virginia University College of Law. Her experiences as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and as an innocence litigator in Mississippi and West Virginia, shape her research and writing on wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, the opioid crisis and incarceration. She is the co-author of the Wrongful Convictions Reader (2018), and the author of Manifesting Justice, Wrongly Convicted Women ReClaim Their Rights which forthcoming in June 2022. Media includes: Charleston Gazette, The West Virginia Lawyer, West Virginia Public Broadcasting. AZ Central where she had an op-ed on Brittney Griner published.

The Guardian recently received a leaked document that revealed Uber's unethical tactics for expansion—which include lobbying government officials, hiding important data from police in order to bypass laws, and putting drivers in danger. To discuss, we FEATURE Corinne Cath. Cath is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and at the Alan Turing Institute for data science and artificial intelligence. She is a cultural anthropologist whose research covers engineering culture, Internet governance, and the social significance of data-driven technologies like artificial intelligence. She is an expert in technology policy. Her doctoral research focuses on public interest advocacy in technical spaces, including organizations developing Internet standards and machine learning systems. She is interested in understanding what public interest advocacy and social justice activism look like when NGOs (and civil society more broadly) have to contend with codemakers as opposed to lawmakers. Media includes: Wired, Council on Foreign Relations.