Dismantling Injustice

We are back sharing another special episode in honor of our beloved executive director, Carl Hamad-Lipscombe. In this conversation, Carl spoke to an expert on the social change ecosystem: Deepa Iyer. Deepa is an activist, facilitator, lawyer, strategist and the author Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection. In this conversation, you’ll hear Carl reflect on his own roles in the social change eco...

Krys Mendez, Special Assistant at Envision Freedom Fund, shares one of Carl’s favorite episodes of the podcast — his conversation with Kenyon Farrow, a writer, editor, strategist, activist and someone he knew and admired for many years. They discuss the intersection of queer liberation and abolition, the meaning of Pride, and much more. We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as he did. Stay tuned for mor...

Rosa Santana, Bond Director at Envision Freedom Fund, shares a conversation that was very near and dear to Carl’s heart — his discussion with Rose Berry of BLMP about the intersection of Blackness, queerness, and migration.

The Envision Freedom team shares the devastating news that Carl Hamad-Lipscombe, Envision's beloved executive director and the host & creator of the Dismantling Injustice podcast, passed away in March. To find comfort and direction during this time, we'll be revisiting some of Carl’s favorite episodes of this podcast with reflections from the Envision Team. We hope you feel as inspired...

Welcome back to Dismantling Injustice! In the first episode of 2024, Envision Freedom staff discuss what we're up against this year (spoiler alert: it's a lot) and how we're strategizing to tackle it head on. Julie Mente, Zoë Adel Perry and Rosa Santana discuss the current political landscape, crunching budget numbers, mental health and so much more!

In this conversation, Julie Mente sits down with Darren Mack, Co-Director of Freedom Agenda, and Loray Hodge, a leader at Freedom Agenda and mother to a son currently incarcerated on Rikers, to discuss the fight to decarcerate New York City and end the inhumanity of Rikers Island. They discuss the harsh realities of life inside Rikers Island, including daily struggles, long-term effects, and the i...

Julie Mente sat down with Samah Sisay, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, to shine a light on the human rights violations occurring at Orange County Correctional Facility. Samah delves into the true reality of immigration detention in New York, sharing stories of inhumane conditions faced by people detained and how they have organized and advocated against these conditions. Fi...

¡Un episodio especial en español! ¿Es esta la primera vez que escucha de Envision Freedom Fund? ¿O es usted un antiguo simpatizante que quiere refrescar sus conocimientos sobre quiénes somos, qué hacemos y cómo hemos adaptado nuestras estrategias para mantenernos al día con el siempre cambiante panorama político? Tenemos el episodio perfecto para ti. En esta conversación especial, Rosa Santana y A...

Are you new to Envision Freedom Fund? Or are you a longtime supporter who wants a refresher on who we are, what we do, and how we've adapted our strategies to keep up with the ever-changing political landscape? We've got just the episode for you! In this special conversation, Julie Mente and Zoë Adel Perry celebrate the organization's two-year anniversary as "Envision Freedom Fund...

Referrals for legal services is one of the most requested methods of support we hear from folks we have bonded out from immigration detention. That’s where experts like Rebecca Press come in. Co-founder of Co-Counsel NYC and Senior Counsel at Central American Legal Assistance, Rebecca joins the podcast to discuss the dire need for immigration legal services in New York City. The episode explores t...

Council Member Shahana Hanif, NYC District 39, joins us on the podcast to discuss what it means to be a sanctuary city in name and in practice. Listen to learn why she gives NYC’s response to migrants a “C,” the danger of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and how our creative, talented and compassionate city can do more for arriving migrants. 

Welcome back to a new season of the Dismantling Injustice Podcast! To kick things off, we are doing a deep dive into an issue that is making headlines everyday: the arrival of asylum seekers and other migrants to New York. First: shelter and housing. On this episode, Carl sat down with a reporter who has been on the front lines documenting this evolving situation for months — Daniel Parra, reporte...

Introducing the last episode in our summer “Staff Picks” series! Last fall, Carl sat down with Nicole Triplett, Envision Freedom's consultant on criminal legal strategy, to dive deep into the history and evolution of surveillance — from convict leasing and FBI watch lists to data scraping of our social media profiles today. The thread tying the past to the present? The desire to control certai...

While Dismantling Injustice is taking a brief summer break, the Envision Freedom staff is curating a “Staff Picks” series, where we are sharing some of our favorite episodes from this past season. This week, our Communications Manager, Julie Mente, shares one of our most listened to episodes. Professor Henning, activist, youth defender and author of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes...

We interrupt our summer #StaffPick series for a special conversation with Jocelyn Simonson, professor of law, former public defender and author of the new book Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Carl and Jocelyn explore how ordinary individuals are sparking extraordinary change within the criminal legal system through bail funds, court watching, partic...

While Dismantling Injustice is taking a brief summer break, the Envision Freedom staff is curating a “Staff Picks” series, where we are sharing some of our favorite episodes from this past season. This week our Research & Advocacy, Zoë Adel Perry shares our conversation on the criminalization of mental health—a topic that is, unfortunately, as relevant today as it was when we released this epi...

While Dismantling Injustice is taking a brief summer break, the Envision Freedom staff is curating a “Staff Picks” series, where we are sharing some of our favorite episodes from this past season. This week our Director of Development, Donny Repsher, shares an episode we released over the winter holiday about how we can have calm, productive conversations about bail reform while bringing more peop...

Hello dear listeners, we hope you are having a restful and revolutionary summer! We are coming to you with some exciting news. While we're taking a little summer hiatus before the next season starts in the fall, we will be re-releasing some of our favorite episodes from the last season. You’ll be hearing from Envision Freedom Fund staff over the next few weeks as they reintroduce these episode...

Hello dear listeners, we hope you are having a restful and revolutionary summer! We are coming to you with some exciting news. While we're taking a little summer hiatus before the next season starts in the fall, we will be re-releasing some of our favorite episodes from the last season. You’ll be hearing from Envision Freedom Fund staff over the next few weeks as they reintroduce these episode...

In our final episode for Pride, Carl is joined by Marti Gould Cummings, an acclaimed NYC drag artist, political activist, former NYC Council candidate and one of New York State's most influential LGBTQIA+ people (City & State). Together, they discuss the disturbing criminalization of drag sweeping the nation and its profound impact on LGBTQIA+ communities and self-expression more broadly....

In this episode of the Dismantling Injustice podcast, Carl sits down with Gabrielle Inès Souza, the executive director of the Okra Project, to discuss the needs of Black trans New Yorkers and the profound significance of mutual aid in bridging the gaps left by governmental and systemic failures. Gabrielle also shares the upcoming, exciting work of the Okra Project and reminds us why investing in B...

Carl is joined by Rose Berry, Co-Director of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP), to discuss the intersection of Blackness, queerness, and migration. Rose shares the importance of centering and building power within this community to create a world where all Black LGBTQIA+ people are free and liberated. Learn how to support and learn more about BLMP's work, during Pride month and beyond!...

We kick off our series for Pride Month with a captivating conversation with Kenyon Farrow, a writer, editor, strategist, activist and the Policy VP at Point Source Youth. Carl and Kenyon go BIG in this episode - tackling everything from the urgency of ending homelessness for LGBTQIA+ youth, to criticisms of gay marriage and the need for abolition. And together they try to answer the question: what...

On this eye-opening episode of Dismantling Injustice, we dive into the impact of the NYPD gang database on the youth of NYC. Our special guest, Anthony Posada, Supervising Attorney at the Legal Aid Society's Community Justice Unit, reveals the inherent racism of this database, how social media is being weaponized by the NYPD and how you can support legislation to #EraseTheDatabase once and for...

This week on Dismantling Injustice, we talk to Aaliyah and Mike from Youth Represent, which uses a youth-driven approach to advocacy and peer education in addition to providing legal services. Prioritizing the voices of young people who have experience with criminalization is critical in the fight for youth justice in New York. Aaliyah, a passionate activist since her teens, shares why changing th...