Outcry Witness Unspoken

JoDee Neil sits down with Cora Black, philanthropist, community leader, and HR professional, for a conversation about what it means to heal while still showing up for a career. Cora shares her story as a survivor of sexual assault and a hate crime during college, and why she chose not to pursue legal action at the time. She and JoDee dig into what HR gets right that lawyers often miss, why documen...

In October 2025, Robert Morris, megachurch founder, author, and pastor to hundreds of thousands, stood in a courtroom and pled guilty to five counts of child sexual abuse. His victim was twelve years old when it started. Her name is Cindy Clemishire. In this conversation, JoDee sits with Cindy in Dallas to talk about what it costs to carry a secret for decades, what happens when the law finally ca...

Women have done everything they were told to do — they negotiated, advocated, and leaned in. And many of them paid a price for it. In this conversation, JoDee sits down with award-winning journalist and author Stefanie O'Connell to examine what Stefanie calls the ambition penalty: the documented backlash women face when they advocate for themselves at work, and why that backlash is so difficul...

About This Episode More than 87,200 people filed abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America. Most will never stand in a courtroom. Most will never receive a verdict. Today's guest is one of them. Shannon Ray Cooper is a Navy veteran, historian, author, and survivor of childhood sexual abuse. In this conversation, Shannon shares how writing Monsters in My Tent helped him reclaim his voice a...

An Instagram account could rack up 16 violations for sex trafficking before being suspended on the 17th. That is not a glitch. That is a policy. This is the conversation Meta does not want you to hear. About This Episode Haley McNamara has spent more than a decade inside the rooms where tech companies are asked to protect children — and where they quietly refuse. As Executive Director and Chief St...

Some stories stop you cold. Colette Martin’s is one of them. Nearly three decades ago, Colette survived an act of violence that most people cannot even comprehend. Stabbed 37 times and left for dead, survival itself became the first miracle. But what followed was something even more powerful: a decision to turn that survival into purpose. Today, Colette uses her voice to stand beside other survivo...

More than 82,000 survivors reported sexual abuse connected to the Boy Scouts of America. What followed was not a courtroom. It was bankruptcy. In Episode Three of Outcry Witness Unspoken, survivor and advocate Curtis Garrison explains what that process has meant for the thousands of men who came forward expecting justice. Instead of testimony before a jury, survivors were placed inside a bankruptc...

Spiritual abuse is about power. It uses God, hell, obedience, and fear of eternal punishment to force compliance. This episode exposes how religious authority is used to control children and adults, shut down dissent, and protect institutions that refuse accountability. These systems are built to isolate, intimidate, and silence. Once obedience is enforced, abuse follows. Spiritual abuse creates a...

Outcry Witness Unspoken begins with the truth most systems refuse to confront. Gender based violence is not rare. It is not exceptional. It is not adequately enforced against. The laws exist, but enforcement is hollow. Survivors are expected to carry the weight of violence while institutions look away. This first episode confronts the reality that silence is not accidental. It is engineered. From...