March 10 Crucial Conversation: Race, mass incarceration and criminal justice reform in NC
Calling your attention to this upcoming virtual event from NC Policy Watch. “By all indications, North Carolina and the nation at-large have entered a critical and, perhaps, hopeful phase in their centuries-old conversations about race, crime, punishment and the undeniable links between them. Even, however, as advocates and elected leaders have succeeded in enacting new […]
Our Bodies Listen, Too
A few years ago, I listened to an interview with Mahzarin Banaji, one of the creators of Harvard’s Implicit Association Test. She told a fascinating story about a study that showed that our bodies better recognize the sound of our voices better than our conscious minds. I share this story often with my participants to […]
Podcast: “How They See Us” from Hidden Brain
I had never heard the term “stereotype threat” before but the concept makes perfect sense and helps me to better understand the impact of explicit and implict biases. Check out this interview with Claude Steele, the author of Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. And a bonus article by Claude […]
“The Cost of Calling My Mom From Prison”
Here’s an interesting recent article from the New York Times by John J. Lennon, currently incarcerated at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in New York State. On Dec. 20, 2020, Worth Rises, an advocacy group, ran a full-page ad in The New York Times calling on Tom Gores, a businessman whose private equity firm owns Securus, […]
Chanda Williams Speaks to Inside Edition and Voice of America About the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak
Inside Edition and Voice of America recently spoke with PYP’s Chanda Williams about the COVID-19 outbreak that sickened 2,170 of the people incarcerated there, almost 2/3 of the population, in less than two months, with 19 dead to date. Watch the video to hear from Chanda why outbreaks in prison and jails are so serious. […]