Five police officers involved in the killing of Tyre Nichols have been indicted for civil rights violations. To discuss, we FEATURE Jilisa Milton. Milton is an Alabama-based civil rights attorney, policy analyst, social worker, racial justice activist, community organizer, and relational strategist. She practices law in Alabama, and is a former Equal Justice Works Fellow, while previously implementing a project in Alabama’s Black Belt region that protects the rights of children with disabilities from entering the school to prison pipeline. She continues work on police reform and economic justice. During her professional development Milton has participated in various legal projects such as the remedial process for Floyd v. New York, the groundbreaking Stop and Frisk case brought to action by the Center for Constitutional Rights, and rights on issues related to racial justice and policing. She currently serves a president of the Board of Directors for Yellowhammer Fund, a 501(c)3 abortion fund and reproductive justice organization serving Alabama and the Deep South. Media includes: Bloomberg Law, Birmingham Times.

As cases rise, the CDC and FDA have approved a new Covid vaccine. To discuss, we FEATURE Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. (ret). Dr. Blumenthal is the Founder and Public Health Director of Beat the Virus.org, a social media campaign and resource hub of information on COVID-19. She also served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General, Senior Global Health Advisor and the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Women’s Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services and was a White House Advisor on Health. She is currently a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the New America and Senior Policy and Medical Advisor at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research where her work focuses on a broad range of public health and science issues facing the nation and world. She also serves as a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Tufts University Schools of Medicine and is a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab. Media includes: The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Boston Globe, The Hill.

A federal judge in Texas has once again struck down President Biden's latest efforts to save DACA, maintaining that Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he created the program that would keep undocumented young adults, known as Dreamers, from being deported. To discuss, we FEATURE Pamela Chomba. Chomba is the Director of Special Projects; Border, Asylum and Migration at FWD.us where she works to develop a positive media framework to welcome people into the United States with dignity and respect. She is a Dreamer and activist, born in Lima, Peru. While working in Texas (2014) for a an electoral campaign, she realized she could not fix the electoral process if 11 million undocumented immigrants lived without status, including families with U.S. citizen family members, like her own. Through story-sharing trainings and advocacy, Chomba mobilized support for Dreamers in the Northeast to speak to Congress and demand a legislative process that will also grant her a pathway to citizenship. Media includes: ThinkProgress, Bustle, CUNY TV.

BBC News has reported that several female surgeons have been sexually harassed or assaulted in operating rooms. To discuss, we FEATURE Karla Altmayer. As the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, Altmayer organizes with survivor leaders to achieve gender liberation in their communities. In her community organizing, she practices healing justice and emergent strategy to build the political power of survivor-leaders. Karla also co-founded the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence (CAWSV), a collaboration among sexual assault advocates, attorneys, and labor organizers in Chicago, and co-authored its popular education curriculum and legal guide. Funded by the Department of Justice, she also co-authored and edited a curriculum to train anti-violence advocates across the country on working at the intersection of labor organizing and anti-violence. Media includes: Univision, La Raza, Newsy, Al Jazeera, Ms. Magazine, CBS, WBEZ.

Hispanic Heritage Month begins today. To discuss, we FEATURE Liz Rebecca Alarcón. Alarcón is a communicator and social entrepreneur. She's the Founder & Executive Director of Pulso, a non-profit digital media startup that reaches more than 2 million Latinos in the US with the mission of increasing this community's political power. Alarcón comments and writes on Latino issues in the US, US-Latin American relations and the state of democracy around the world. She is a former Fulbright Scholar who spent a year working with a woman's cooperative on the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. She serves on the board of the Office of New Americans of Miami-Dade County and is part of the Global Shapers Miami Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Media includes: The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, Time, The Miami Herald.