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 John Woodrow Cox, an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post and the author of Children Under Fire: An American Crisis. They discuss elevating children's voices and building trust while reporting on gun violence.

Season 2 of Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines, hosted by Yale School of Public Health community scholar Nelba Márquez-Greene, is here. This season will highlight people who have dedicated their work to gun violence prevention, starting with members of the Yale School of Public Health firearm injury prevention team : Kerri Raissian, MPA, PhD, Magdalena Cerda, DrPH, MPH '99, and Chris...

Host Nelba Márquez-Greene, Yale School of Public Health Community Scholar, is joined by "The Relentless School Nurse," Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN. Cogan is in her 25th year as a school nurse in the Camden City School District in New Jersey. She discusses how her family experienced multiple mass shootings seven decades and multiple generations apart, the critical role of school nurses...

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 gra...

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 re...

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,...

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 accom...

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 sho...

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...

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 Le...

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...

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 Nelba Márquez-Greene 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...

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 in...

Kristin Song became a gun safety activist after her 15-year-old son Ethan was killed with an unsecured gun in his best friend's house. In the second episode of our Shared Humanity: The humans behind the headlines podcast and video series, our activist in residence Nelba Márquez-Greene talks to Song about safe storage and how the unjust loss of a child changes life forever.   Song's unifying approa...

In this first episode of Shared Humanity: the humans behind the headlines, host Nelba Márquez-Greene, Yale School of Public Health Activist in Residence, is joined by author, activist, and mother of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton. As Mother's Day nears, the two speak about what loss is like more than ten years later, how their community supports them, and Circle of Mothers, an organization founded...