12: Honoring My Dad
Shared Humanity
Six years ago this week, a young person radicalized by anti-immigrant rhetoric, armed with an AR-15, entered a Walmart in El Paso. He murdered 23 human beings, and he physically injured another 22. He changed the lives of millions. On that same day, Stephanie Melendez's parents had volunteered to take her eldest daughter shopping. Stephanie's dad, David Johnson, saved the lives of his wife and granddaughter. He was one of the 23 killed at the Walmart in El Paso on a random day in the United States. On today's episode of Shared Humanity: The Humans Behind the Headlines, Melendez...
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11: On Healing Trauma and Gun Violence
Shared Humanity
In this episode of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, LMFT, Yale School of Public Health Community Scholar, is joined by Dr. Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, Principal of the Neurosequential Network. Dr. Perry's work on the impact of abuse, neglect, and trauma on the developing brain has impacted clinical practice, programs, and policy across the world. His most recent book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, co-authored with Oprah Winfrey, has been translated into 26 languages and has been on the New York...
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10: Uvalde, Activism, and Remembering
Shared Humanity
In this episode of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene is joined by Kimberly Mata-Rubio. Mata-Rubio is the mother of Alexandria Aniyah “Lexi” Rubio, one of 21 victims who died in a mass shooting three years ago this week at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX. Mata-Rubio and Márquez-Greene, who are both mothers of daughters who were killed during school shootings, discuss remembering and making change possible. Mata-Rubio is the president of Lives Robbed, a non-profit organization formed to combat the gun violence epidemic in America. Follow along at...
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09: What We Learned From the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
Shared Humanity
In this episode of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, Yale School of Public Health Community Scholar, is joined by the two former deputy directors of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Gregory Jackson and Rob Wilcox. They discuss the successes of the Office — we saw the biggest reduction in gun violence in U.S. history — and how those accomplishments can continue to be replicated, even after the Office’s closure. "We have the solutions that work," said Wilcox. "We just need to put them in place." Learn more about Shared Humanity:...
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08: Firearm Injury, Public Health, and Hope
Shared Humanity
In this episode of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, is joined by Megan L. Ranney, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. The two discuss firearm injury as a public health issue, partnerships between academia, survivors, and communities, and how they continue to find hope. The episode was recorded the week before the twelfth anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook School, where Márquez-Greene’s daughter, Ana Grace, 6, was one of 20 students and six administrators and teachers who were killed. Learn more about Yale School of Public...
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07: Somewhere in America - Gun Violence and Grief 20 Years Later
Shared Humanity
In this episode of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, Yale School of Public Health Activist in Residence, is joined by gun violence survivor and gun violence prevention advocate Tara Donnelly. Donnelly lost both her mother and father on February 2, 2005 when they were killed in a shooting at their family jewelry store in Fairfield, Connecticut. The person who committed the crime stole the gun from an unlocked nightstand in a home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Donnelly discusses grief 20 years later, becoming a parent without parents, expanding Ethan’s...
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06: The Shooting at Mother Emanuel – One Survivor's Story
Shared Humanity
In this episode of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, Yale School of Public Health Activist in Residence, is joined by Reverend Sharon Washington Risher. Reverend Risher was catapulted into the limelight after the Charleston, South Carolina shooting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. Her beloved mother, Mrs. Ethel Lee Lance, was killed along with eight others – including two cousins and a childhood friend. Today she is a sought-after inspirational speaker, traveling across the country telling her...
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05: Grieving Suicide in the Public Eye
Shared Humanity
CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses suicide and may contain distressing content. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, help is available. Call, text, or chat 9-8-8 anywhere within the United States to reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. In this episode of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, Yale School of Public Health Activist in Residence, is joined by Kay Warren – author, speaker, and Bible teacher. Warren discusses grieving suicide in the public eye and how she keeps hope with the help of a hope box. ...
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04: Teaching After Tragedy
Shared Humanity
You may have seen Abbey Clements share her story in one minute during the Freedom from Gun Violence segment at the DNC last week. Activist in Residence recently sat down with Clements for 45 minutes to discuss teaching after tragedy. Clements and Márquez-Greene share an inextricable link. Clements was a teacher at Sandy Hook School on December 14, 2012, where Márquez-Greene lost her daughter, Ana Grace. Since that fateful day, Clements, who has been an elementary teacher for 32 years, has been a gun violence prevention activist. Clements is the Executive Director and...
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03: The Mass Shooting That Never Made the News
Shared Humanity
Celeste Robinson Fulcher is a mother, wife, and retired federal employee specializing in veteran services. She and her family lived in West Haven in 2013 when her daughter Erika Robinson was killed in a mass shooting in New Haven. Since that time, Celeste has committed to honoring her daughter’s life, her own, and sharing support for other moms and families who are impacted by gun violence. Her influence can also be felt as one of the four founding mothers who helped build the New Haven Botanical Garden Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence – a place of hope and healing we all should visit....
info_outlineCeleste Robinson Fulcher is a mother, wife, and retired federal employee specializing in veteran services. She and her family lived in West Haven in 2013 when her daughter Erika Robinson was killed in a mass shooting in New Haven. Since that time, Celeste has committed to honoring her daughter’s life, her own, and sharing support for other moms and families who are impacted by gun violence. Her influence can also be felt as one of the four founding mothers who helped build the New Haven Botanical Garden Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence – a place of hope and healing we all should visit.
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New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence
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