Building Justice

Listen in as Sac State undergrads Alejandra Lopez, Elizabeth Meza, Rosalba Gomez Bautista, Mariaelena Pulido, and Lilian Wee discuss why the University should recognize and support identifying indigenous students and their communities. They also talk about decolonizing academia, and how indigenous students foster intersectional fields of study.

Listen in as Decarcerate Sacramento Co-Founder Liz Blum and Licensed Psychologist and Sac State alumna Dr. Corrine McIntosh Sako talk with Professor Monicka Tutschka about the criminalization of mental illness and how a mental health jail annex - on which the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will be voting Wednesday December 7, 2022 at 2pm - is NOT the answer to improving our community's health.
For transcription and more info: www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice

Listen in as Sac State alumna and CRISJ affiliate Brenda-Joyce Newman, M.A. talks with Zuri K. Colbert, founder of Community Lead Advocacy Program (CLAP), a Sacramento grass-roots organization formed to address the lack of equity, resources, and representation within marginalized Sacramento communities.

Listen in as Dr. Brenda Romero, a World Languages and Literatures professor at Sacramento State talks with Chicanx author Ana Castillo about her life, writing, and commitment to empowerment and social justice.  

Tune in to hear Sacramento State Ethnic Studies Professor Dr. Marie Mallare, S.J.D. talk with Manohar Raju, San Francisco public defender about the legacy of Jeff Adachi, a Sacramento native who shaped the San Francisco public defender’s office. What makes a good public defender and how does one effectively advocate for marginalized people and communities? 

Listen in as Political Science Professor Monicka Tutschka talks with Sac State Alumna and PPC member Brenda-Joyce Newman, M.A. and Brother Carter, California State Co-Chair of the PPC about the organization's mission, their activism within it, and various PPC proposals serving to ensure the most vulnerable have reliable and continuous access to basic needs. For more info and full transcript: www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice

Listen in as Gerontology Professor Catheryn Koss, JD, PhD talks with two non-traditionally aged college students, Darryl E. Lambert and Faye Kayo.  They share their experiences of being undergraduate students at Sacramento State.

Listen in as Criminal Justice Professor Danielle Slakoff talks with M.A. recipient and first-generation Latina student Erica Amaya. Erica describes her experiences with being unhoused, graduate school, and her Master's thesis work on media portrayals of intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full transcript available at www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice

Listen in as two Sac State Students share their experiences and perspectives on student homeless at Sac State.

In this episode, Dr. Nicole Fox discusses her new book "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda." The pair cover Dr. Fox's motivations for engaging in this work, the vicarious trauma that can stem from doing qualitative research on victimization, and what she believes are the key takeaways from her fieldwork in Rwanda. For a full transcript please go to www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice