Hey, hey, Shelfies, thanks for staying curious.

Today joining Patsy, Lydia, Hellen and Margaret are three young, professional black women all working to help our community and the service users of the criminal justice system.

Sureya and Hazel are Paralegals working for the Crown Prosecution Service and Chelsea works for the National Probation Service.  

If like me you are a fan of Suits, you'll know just how much solicitors rely on the paralegal, who are not yet officially qualified but know a vast amount of information as many, like Hazel are training to get to the next level. 

All have very exciting and emotional stories to share - why they got into that specific line of work, how they cope with the cases they deal with on a daily basis and how they cope as black women in a profession and historical system which is dominated by white males - inside and outside of the courtroom.

It's not all grim, listen to Chelsea share a good news story and how worthwhile the job is when justice is finally served.  And take a listen here  to Hezron Brown talk about the impact his Probation Officer had on his life when he was growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlMGfHId7M

Listen up, who says they feel like they are Angela Valdez (Power)?  Who in the group will be 'bossing it' soon? Take a listen and then let us know on our Insta page the answers to the above questions.  Don't be shy we really want to hear from you. 

If you have or are a service user we'd love to hear from you after listening to this campfire.

As always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we did recording.

Stay curious

Patsy & Lydia

Edits by Che Cardoso