Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. We are honored to be joined by Jason Williamson for this episode, Bravery is Freedom- Black Men Sharing How They Became.

Jason D. Williamson has served as Executive Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law since June 2021. Prior to this, he served as the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project. He began his legal career in New Orleans in the months following Hurricane Katrina. Jason serves as an adjunct clinical professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches the Racial Justice and Abolition Clinic. As of August 25, 2025, Jason assumed the role of Executive Director with the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, based in New York City. 


This conversation is about more than résumés or institutions. Our conversation is rooted in Jason’s lifestyle and daily practice of abolitionism—seeing beyond punishment and militarized policing toward a world organized around care, dignity, and collective responsibility. Together, we explore what it means to navigate the stereotype threat of being a Black man and Black father in these Americas, and how Jason’s journey has been shaped by faith, family, and a profound sense of responsibility to those who came before—and the generations he has yet to meet. You’ll witness how legacy shapes responsibility, how expectation becomes fuel, and how the devastation in New Orleans twenty years ago catalyzed Jason’s lifelong commitment to racial justice and liberation.

Take a deep breath. Let this conversation rush in—unsettling what must be unsettled, stirring your bravery, and daring you to imagine abolitionism and liberation not as distant realities, but as the work of NOW.

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.