Pursuing Justice

Professor Daniel Medwed is a professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston. He graduated from Harvard Law in 1995 and is a legal analyst for WGBH. His focus is the topic of wrongful conviction. He is a founding member of the Innocence Network, a consortium of Innocence Projects around the US and the world. He will discuss his new book.

Show Description:Paulette is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and serves on the Board of the Ridgefield Theater Barn where the play was presented in the Fall of 2022. She is a playwright, production manager and director.    Chris began appearing on stage at age 47, having been a member of S.A.G. since 2007. He’s acted on TV and in film. He appears in “BOSS” on HBO.    Kevin appe...

Show Description:Paulette is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and serves on the Board of the Ridgefield Theater Barn where the play was presented in the Fall of 2022. She is a playwright, production manager and director.    Chris began appearing on stage at age 47, having been a member of S.A.G. since 2007. He’s acted on TV and in film. He appears in “BOSS” on HBO.    Kevin appe...

The Exonerated (cast member)  “The Exonerated” in Ridgefield, CT. He is also a director, voice teacher, music director of over 300 shows in the ti-state area. We will discuss his role in the play.

WEBSITE: ridgefieldtheaterbarn.org Beth directed “The Exonerated”. She is native to CT, teaches theater arts to children, seniors and people behind bars. In addition to directing, she is an actor, playwright and a Registered Nurse. 

Professor Margaret Burnham teaches law at Northeastern University and is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law. A civil rights lawyer, a defense attorney and a judge, she is the author of the new book: By Hands Not Known:Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. Between 1920~1960 in the South there is a piece of history that is both...

Professor Margaret Burnham teaches law at Northeastern University and is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law. A civil rights lawyer, a defense attorney and a judge, she is the author of the new book: By Hands Not Known:Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. Between 1920~1960 in the South there is a piece of history that is both...

Harriet  will recap the episodes from 2022.

Seth has been Executive Director of Innocence Project of Florida since 2006. He was President of the worldwide Innocence Network, a consortium of innocence organizations in the US and abroad from 2014~2020. He graduated from Florida State University School of Law and teaches there as an adjunct professor. Under his leadership, 21 people have been released from prison. We will be discussing various...

Seth has been Executive Director of Innocence Project of Florida since 2006. He was President of the worldwide Innocence Network, a consortium of innocence organizations in the US and abroad from 2014~2020. He graduated from Florida State University School of Law and teaches there as an adjunct professor. Under his leadership, 21 people have been released from prison. We will be discussing various...

Seth has been Executive Director of Innocence Project of Florida since 2006. He was President of the worldwide Innocence Network, a consortium of innocence organizations in the US and abroad from 2014~2020. He graduated from Florida State University School of Law and teaches there as an adjunct professor. Under his leadership, 21 people have been released from prison. We will be discussing various...

Seth has been Executive Director of Innocence Project of Florida since 2006. He was President of the worldwide Innocence Network, a consortium of innocence organizations in the US and abroad from 2014~2020. He graduated from Florida State University School of Law and teaches there as an adjunct professor. Under his leadership, 21 people have been released from prison. We will be discussing various...

Prison University Project began at San Quentin in 1996 in a trailer with 2 volunteer instructors, donated textbooks and no budget. Over time, several thousand inmates have participated, many earning Associate Degrees. Now P.U.P. has become Mt. Tamalpais College, an independent accredited college inside the prison. Our guests are the President of Mt. Tam College {Jody Lewen} and a graduate of P.U.P...

Prison University Project began at San Quentin in 1996 in a trailer with 2 volunteer instructors, donated textbooks and no budget. Over time, several thousand inmates have participated, many earning Associate Degrees. Now P.U.P. has become Mt. Tamalpais College, an independent accredited college inside the prison. Our guests are the President of Mt. Tam College (Jody Lewen) and a graduate of P.U.P...

Our focus  is  a higher education program inside 2  prisons in  Maryland: a women’s facility and a men’s.  Our guests are: Eliza Cornejo, Executive Director of the partnership and Ramieka Robinson-Peoples, a former GPEP student finishing her B.A. at Goucher.

Our focus  is  a higher education program inside 2  prisons in  Maryland: a women’s facility and a men’s.  Our guests are: Eliza Cornejo, Executive Director of the partnership and Ramieka Robinson-Peoples, a former GPEP student</p> <p>finishing her B.A. at Goucher.

Huwe Burton Spent 18 years in Prison from Age 16-34 for a crime he did not commit

Huwe Burton Spent 18 years in Prison from Age 16-34 for a crime he did not commit

Kristin Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. She and her students  represent youth accused of delinquency in D.C. She will discuss her  new book: The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.

Professor Kristen Henning is the author of: THE RAGE OF INNOCENCE: HOW AMERICA CRIMINALIZES BLACK YOUTH was published in 2021. She is the Blume Professor of Law and director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown University Law Center. She has represented juvenile accused of crimes in Washington, D.C. for 25 years.

Our podcast   will feature one of three authors of a 66 page article appearing in the Northwestern Law Review published in October 2021. Rachel Lopez is an Associate Professor of Law at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. The theme of the article is the question of redemption. Life Without Parole is essentially <i>Death By Incarceration, </i>sending the message that those accused of...

The article “Redeeming Justice” discussing the <b>right</b> to redemption for people serving a Life Without Parole sentence has  garnered much attention in legal circles. A number of advocates have brought several legal complaints that address this right. Astha Sharma Pokharel will discuss a complaint to the United Nations (to be filed on September 15, 2022) alleging that the United St...

Kempis Songster, aKa Ghani, is a founding member of Right To Redemption Committee and the Coalition to abolish Death By Incarceration.  He is also co-founder and director of Ubuntu Philadelphia. Since his release in 2017 after 30 years in prison, starting when he was 15 years Old, Ghani has emerged as a leader in Philadelphia’s movement to end mass incarceration and to create restorative responses...

Kempis Songster, aKa Ghani, is a founding member of Right To Redemption Committee and the Coalition to abolish Death By Incarceration.  He is also co-founder and director of Ubuntu Philadelphia. Since his release in 2017 after 30 years in prison, starting when he was 15 years Old, Ghani has emerged as a leader in Philadelphia’s movement to end mass incarceration and to create restorative responses...

Amy Ard is founder and Executive Director of  Motherhood Beyond Bars in Georgia. This is a nonprofit organization helping women who deliver a baby while incarcerated. In Georgia, babies are taken from the mother within 24 hours. This organization assists in finding a caregiver for the newborn and helps financially and emotionally to keep mother, child and caregiver connected.