Check out this episode with Alyssa Tamboura, an advocate for children impacted by the criminal justice system and founder of Walls to Bridges Project, which aired initially in Season 1.

Alyssa shares about her organization and the book project created this past summer for system-impacted kids to maintain communication with their loved ones since in-person visits have been suspended due to COVID-19. Alyssa also shares a powerful poem about what it was it was like waiting while her dad was gone for most of her childhood as he served nearly 13 years in San Quentin Prison.

Hey Visitors! After a nine-month hiatus, Nadine is back!

In this episode, Nadine gives you a brief update on some of the things she's been focusing on in her "year of no."

As mentioned in the show:

Look out for new episodes on the first Wednesday of every month.

In the last episode, Nadine mentioned she'd be moderating a conversation for the Minnesota Justice Research Center's Re-Imagining Conference. Here is a link.

Nadine started a new job in a familiar place, the Hennepin County Public Defender's Office, and she was appointed to the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission.

Nadine recounts her experiences at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference in Chicago, a city she has now fallen in love with. She highlights the controversy surrounding former President Trump's appearance and her admiration for Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the New York Times 1619 Project.

If you are traveling to Chicago, Nadine highly recommends you book the Chicago Mohagany Tour with historian Dilla, also known as 6figga_dilla.

In this solo episode, Nadine shares some of the things she has been up to in the last few months as well as two upcoming conferences she’d love for you to attend. 

Featured in this episode: 

We Are All Criminals

• Support 

The Great North Innocence Project 

• Support 

National Association of Public Defense Racial Justice

• Photos from the conference

Book recommendations 

• The Rage of Innocence - How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning
• Change is Possible - I Never Gave Up: a memoir by Eddie Ellis 
• The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts by Stephen B. Bright & James Kwak 

Equal Justice Initiative 

Duluth Minnesota Lynching 

Minnesota Justice Research Center Re-imagining Conference 

The Legal Revolution Criminal Justice Legislative Changes CLE 

TWR Instagram! 

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