FWTW Ep 10: Harm Reduction & Law Enforcement Interactions Panel Discussion Part 1
Release Date: 01/17/2024
Woke AF Daily Interview About Obscured
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We’re excited to share Woke AF Daily on our feed with Danielle Moodie powered by DCP Entertainment. The podcast explores the current political climate while waking people up to their power. As part of our From Words to Weapons series rollout, we were guests on Woke AF Daily. Special thanks to Woke AF Daily for having us on the show to talk about From Words to Weapons, our reporting and why policy matters. This episode of Obscured features our conversation with Danielle. Be sure to check out Woke AF Daily wherever you get your podcasts:
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FWTW Ep 14: Series Wrap-up
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From Words to Weapons Episode 14 is the final episode in the series. It features a wrap-up conversation between Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas. They discuss the series and reporting developments since the start of the series. Our deepest thanks to everyone who’s been listening! And if you have a moment, we'd greatly appreciate you sharing Obscured with others who might be interested and/or by leaving a review on a podcast platform to help the show grow. Thank You!
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FWTW Ep 13: Supporting Survivors of Violence
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On Being Biracial: Privileges & Pressures
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FWTW Ep 12: Compensation and Care for the Exonerated
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From Words to Weapons Episode 12 features a panel discussion about compensation and care for people who’ve been wrongfully convicted. Our series covered this topic in the third episode about Chester Hollman III and the politics of wrongful conviction. If you haven’t heard it, we recommend listening to that episode as well. Obscured partnered with the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and Witness to Innocence to hold the panel with support from the Independence Public Media Foundation. The panelists are Pennsylvania Speaker of the House...
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FWTW Ep 11: Harm Reduction & Law Enforcement Interactions Panel Discussion Part 2
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From Words to Weapons Episode 11 features Part 2 of a panel discussion about harm reduction in the context of interactions with law enforcement and solutions that could better promote community well-being and help mitigate mistrust. Obscured partnered with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the Pennsylvania Action Coalition to hold the discussion with support from the Independence Public Media Foundation. On this episode, Part 2, we’re going to hear a conversation moderated by Obscured’s Stephanie Marudas and Namaijah Faison of the Pennsylvania Action...
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FWTW Ep 10: Harm Reduction & Law Enforcement Interactions Panel Discussion Part 1
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From Words to Weapons Episode 10 features Part 1 of a panel discussion about harm reduction in the context of interactions with law enforcement and solutions that could better promote community well-being and help mitigate mistrust. Obscured partnered with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the Pennsylvania Action Coalition to hold the discussion with support from the Independence Public Media Foundation. On this episode, Part 1, we’re going to hear presentations from each of the panelists. And then on Part 2, we’ll hear a moderated discussion among...
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FWTW Ep 9: Parole and Mass Incarceration in the U.S. with Ben Austen
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From Words to Weapons Episode 9 focuses on the parole system and mass incarceration in the United States. Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas talk with Chicago-based journalist Ben Austen. He’s written a new book, Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change. Ben also is the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing and the co-host of a podcast called Some of My Best Friends Are. Links of Interest:
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How We Survive: The $80 Million Acre
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We’re excited to share How We Survive with you! How We Survive is a podcast from Marketplace that explores solutions to the climate crisis. This season, host Amy Scott investigates how people are adapting to the water crisis in the American West. The Colorado River feeds us and powers our lives by irrigating millions of acres of farmland, supporting 30 Tribal Nations and providing drinking water to forty million people. Cities from Denver to Los Angeles couldn’t exist without it. With the ongoing megadrought, we’re using more water than the river has...
info_outlineFrom Words to Weapons Episode 10 features Part 1 of a panel discussion about harm reduction in the context of interactions with law enforcement and solutions that could better promote community well-being and help mitigate mistrust.
Obscured partnered with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the Pennsylvania Action Coalition to hold the discussion with support from the Independence Public Media Foundation.
On this episode, Part 1, we’re going to hear presentations from each of the panelists. And then on Part 2, we’ll hear a moderated discussion among the panelists.
The first presentation we’ll hear is from Talitha Smith. Talitha is a nurse navigator with RIvER, which stands for Rethinking Incarceration and Empowering Recovery. It’s a clinic within the Allegheny Health Network’s Center for Inclusion Health -- the same clinic we heard about in episode 8 of our series with Talitha’s colleague Divya Venkat. In addition to her work at the RIvER clinic, Talitha is an adjunct professor at Carlow University and works as a local travel nurse.
The second presentation is from Chad Bruckner. Chad is a retired police detective and spent his career in policing in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He now heads a private investigation firm and is a coach and recovery specialist. Chad reflects on his policing experience in his book, The Holy Trinity of Successful and Healthy Police Organizations: Improving Leadership, Culture and Wellness.
The final presentation is from Laurie Corbin. Laurie is Managing Director for Community Engagement at Public Health Management Corporation or PHMC. She oversees a range of programs that provide social services prevention, intervention, treatment and education to at-risk individuals and their families. Laurie explains how these programs focus on diversion from incarceration and advance release from incarceration, treatment readiness and recovery support for people who are justice-involved.
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