During this Women's History Month, join Life After the Impact's conversation with Qiana L. Johnson. Qiana is a legal empowerment strategist advancing structural accountability within public institutions — and a 2026 candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Her work interrogates the administrative architecture of justice — plea bargaining systems, court bureaucracy, civic restoration, and reentry infrastructure — and translates lived experience into institutional redesign.

With a Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies and direct experience navigating the criminal legal system, Qiana operates at the intersection of policy literacy, legal literacy, and power analysis. She advances legal literacy as a mechanism for power redistribution — equipping directly impacted communities with the procedural fluency necessary to navigate, challenge, and influence the systems that govern their lives.

As the founder and Executive Director of Life After Release, she designs frameworks that center legal literacy, transparency, and access. Her initiatives include second-chance employment pipelines, train-the-trainer self-leadership models, court transparency efforts, and civic restoration strategy, all grounded in the belief that knowledge is not supplemental to justice; it is structural.

She is the author of Lies, Alibis, and Plea Deals, a hybrid memoir and systems analysis examining discretion, coercion, and administrative authority within the criminal legal process.

Her candidacy for Coutny Clerk of Prince Georges County , Mayland reflects the same thesis that defines her work: that the administration of justice is not neutral, it is procedural, measurable, and capable of reform. She seeks to bring literacy, transparency, and accountability directly into the operational core of the court.

Her framework is clear:

Legal literacy is infrastructure.

Transparency is leverage.

Knowledge redistributes power.

Tuesday, February 17th, hosts Roxane Johnson and LaToya Benton will be continuing their discussion, putting current civil unrest and political repression in historical context. Join us in discussion Tuesday at 9 pm EST.

Tuesday, February 3rd, hosts Roxane Johnson and LaToya Benton will be putting current civil unrest and political repression in historical context. Join us in discussion Tuesday at 9 pm EST.

🎙️ This Tuesday at 9PM — Life After the Impact

We discuss the indictment in the killing of Marchello “Chello” Woodard and ask the hard questions about accountability, transparency, and justice.

🎧 Featuring community voices Deonte Cooley and Malcolm Pullium

📅 1/20 | 🕘 9PM

#JusticeForChello #LifeAfterTheImpact #AccountabilityNow #EriePA #CommunityVoices #SayHisName

Castill was just a teenager when her brother was killed. Since then, she has transformed grief into purpose advocating for truth, accountability, and systemic change while uplifting families impacted by police violence. In this powerful conversation, Castill speaks to the lasting impact of loss, the fight to reclaim her brother’s humanity, and what healing and justice look like beyond the moment of tragedy.

Join us January 13, 2026 at 9 PM EST for an honest and moving discussion about remembrance, resilience, and life after the impact

On this episode of Life After the Impact, we sit down with Castill Hightower, sister of Herbert Hightower Jr., whose life was tragically cut short during a mental health crisis involving Seattle police. Herbert’s story, long mischaracterized as “suicide by cop,” reflects a broader and troubling history of law enforcement responses to people in crisis.

Castill was just a teenager when her brother was killed. Since then, she has transformed grief into purpose advocating for truth, accountability, and systemic change while uplifting families impacted by police violence. In this powerful conversation, Castill speaks to the lasting impact of loss, the fight to reclaim her brother’s humanity, and what healing and justice look like beyond the moment of tragedy.

Join us January 13, 2026 at 9 PM EST for an honest and moving discussion about remembrance, resilience, and life after the impact.

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What Does Civic Duty Mean to You?

Life After the Impact with:

Chylanna Maley

Rick Hartley

Calvin Peterson

Charles Elliot

Hilary Robbins Hellerbach &

Jabari Lane

Join Us Tuesday, November 19th for a powerful conversation on the importance of holistic health in the fight for justice — exploring how mental, emotional, and spiritual rejuvenation are essential to our collective healing and liberation.

Our featured guests:

Asia “Sunrise” Hawk Founder & CEO, A Sunrise Seeker Services Certified Wholistic Wellness & Nutritional Counselor | Breathologist | Reiki Practitioner | HUD Housing Counselor

Asia “Sunrise” is a Certified Holistic Nutritional Counselor, Breathologist, and Reiki Practitioner with deep spiritual roots and a passion for natural living. After overcoming over a decade of addiction, ancestral trauma, and personal transformation, she answered the call to heal herself — and now helps others do the same. Through A Sunrise Seeker Services, she offers holistic assessments, treatments, workshops, and individualized guidance for those navigating addiction, trauma, and the desire to live with greater balance and intention.

A Sunrise Seeker Services, LLC Healthy birthing • Healing • Natural living • Natural life transitioning Website: ASunriseSeeker.Services

Tansy McNulty Founder & CEO, One Million Madly Motivated Moms (OM³)

Tansy leads One Million Madly Motivated Moms, a national movement dedicated to transforming public safety through prevention strategies, supporting families impacted by police violence, and centering the mental wellness of Black families. Her leadership embodies the power of purpose, community care, and collective healing. linktr.ee/1M4 1m4.org

Join us as we talk about justice, wellness, and the journey to wholeness — body, mind, and spirit. Together, we rise.

#nationalcaregiversmonth

DC Justice Lab is Actively Opposing Bills in Congress to repeal the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2021 would have the following effects:

• Restore the old officer discipline process that allows officers who commit major misconduct to stay at MPD when leaders want to fire them;

• Remove limits on police engaging in vehicle pursuits, which are dangerous to everyone;

• Decrease access to body-worn camera footage; • Decrease training and standards for officers;

• Allow MPD to hire officers who (1) were found by another law enforcement agency to have committed serious misconduct, (2) were terminated or forced to resign for disciplinary reasons, or (3) resigned to avoid disciplinary action or termination;

• Decrease oversight and accountability by removing residents from the Police Complaints Board and Use of Force Review Board;

• Remove the requirement that police tell people they don't have to consent to searches;

• Allow more use of military weapons; and

• Allow more use of internationally banned chemical weapons, riot gear, and less-lethal projectiles against people exercising first amendment rights.

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Baltimore Abolition Movement joins Life After the Impact this week, to unpack how private and campus police forces have virtually no accountability measures. As Johns Hopkins pushes to create its own private police force, we’ll explore what that means for a city already struggling with over-policing and community trauma.

We’ll connect the dots between state sanctioned immunity, rising surveillance, and the ongoing fight for justice in Baltimore. This episode is about education, empowerment, and exposing the systems that allow harm to go unchecked. Tune in live on 10/21 at 9 PM EST

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https://baltimoreabolitionmovement.org/

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