Liberty Under Law

Sharon M. McGowan, Chief Strategy Officer and Legal Director of Lambda Legal, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, Deputy Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, and Chris Cormier Maggiano, President and Founder of Cormier & Company and Political Advisor with the Q Trust join Kristan for a discussion on issues and equity gaps affecting LGBTQI+ individuals.

Sarah Ludwig , Founder, and Co-Director of the New Economy Project joins Kristan for our last conversation in our series on economic justice. New Economy Project is a New York City-based organization whose mission is to build an economy that works for all, based on cooperation, equity, social and racial justice, and ecological sustainability. Sarah and Kristan discussed how the New Economy Project...

Kristan McMahon speaks with Rachel L. Braunstein and Naomi Young of Her Justice, an organization dedicated to breaking down systemic barriers that are built into the civil justice system, and barriers that reinforce and exacerbate gender, racial and economic imbalances. The Robert H. Jackson Center is proud to be the recipient of an Action Grant award by Humanities New York (HNY) for innovative pu...

In this conversation recorded in June 2020, St. John's University School of Law Professor John Q. Barrett and Kristan McMahon stepped back in time to discuss the June 6, 1945 report Justice Jackson sent President Truman regarding the work to prosecute the major German war criminals. The report helped generate governmental and public support for Jackson’s work during the London negotiations and in...

Audra and Kristan discuss the universal and systemic barriers and challenges that contribute to economic injustice and inequality, how the Shriver Center is working to dismantle these obstacles, and the national cooperative advocacy and effort to provide access to economic equality for all. Special thanks to HumanitiesNY for their sponsorship of RHJC's economic justice programming.

Anne Rolfes , Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , began her career in Nigeria, collaborating with local communities to address oil companies’ destruction of the Niger Delta. She returned to Louisiana in 2000 and founded the Louisiana Bucket Brigade to end the petrochemical industry’s destruction of her home state. The organization has prioritized media as a tool to amplify the voices of the...

Kristan sat down with members of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) to discuss their work on environmental issues in the U.S. and around the globe. We welcomed Sylvia Orduño and Michael Tilchin, Chair and Vice-Chair of NEJAC, and Jan Marie Fritz, Ph. D and Steering Committee member for NEJAC.

Wendy Doyle, President and CEO of United WE joins Kristan to discuss pay equity, paid family leave, child care, and encouraging the civic engagement of women.​

Equality Now is an organization "that uses the power of the law to dismantle deeply rooted discrimination and inequality and build a just world for women and girls." Antonia Kirkland, Global Lead, Legal Equality and Access to Justice, Tsitsi Matekaire, Global Lead, End Sex Trafficking, and Flavia Mwangovya, Global Lead, End Harmful Practices, joined Kristan for a discussion on a variety of issues...

Eva Jefferson Paterson has campaigned for civil rights with passion, courage and tenacity for more than four decades. Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Prior to taking the helm of the Equal Justice Society in 2003, Paterson worked at the Lawyers’ Co...

Our first episode features Juan R. Thomas, the Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Civil Rights & Social Justice Section Juan is Of Counsel at Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A., the founder and principal of The Thomas Law Group, a member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section for State & Local Government, and the General Counsel for the Morehouse College National Alum...