Listen as Dr. Wheaton provides excellent insight into the prison and court system and how it disproportionately effects African Americans. She provides helpful, practical ways in which we can all get involved in real change. 

Dr. Deidre L. Wheaton is the Associate Professor of Educational, Multicultural, and Exceptional Studies at Jackson State University in Mississippi. She is trained in American Cultural Studies with an emphasis on 20th Century African American Culture. 
Research & Teaching interests include Critical Race Studies, impact of race on teaching and learning, race and gender bias in higher education and broadening participation.  And for the past 7 years has taught a course (Social Institutions) that deals with mass incarceration and racial bias as a social problem.