We Don't Have to Choose

This episode of We Don’t Have to Choose with Mary Moriarty features the executive director of the National Network for Safe Communities, Sasha Cotton. Sasha joined the National Network for Safe Communities in September 2022 as a Senior Strategy Director and has spent the fifteen months getting to know NNSC’s partners, work, and staff, with a vision and plan to strengthen and grow the organization before becoming the Executive Director.

Episode 4 of We Don't Have to Choose with Mary Moriarty features Professor James Forman Jr.

James Forman Jr. is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He attended public schools in Detroit and New York City before graduating from the Atlanta Public Schools. After attending Brown University and Yale Law School, he worked as a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. After clerking, he joined the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., where for six years he represented both juveniles and adults charged with crimes. At Yale Law School, where he has taught since 2011, Forman teaches Constitutional Law and a course called Race, Class, and Punishment. Professor Forman has written many law review articles, in addition to op-eds and essays for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic, the Nation, and the Washington Post. Locking Up Our Own is his first book.

Episode 3 of We Don't Have to Choose with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty features nationally renowned crime data analyst and co-founder of AH Analytics, Jeff Asher. Jeff served as the crime analyst for the city of New Orleans and has served on both the local and national level. His work has been featured on multiple outlets like fivethirtyeight and the NY times.

Episode 2 of “We Don’t Have to Choose” with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty features therapist and trauma specialist Dr. Resmaa Menakem.

This episode focuses on understanding how the legal system deals with racial trauma. As a practitioner of Somatic Abolitionism, Dr Menakem and County Attorney Moriarty peel back layers to get at the core of the legal system’s relationship with racial trauma, and discuss ways we can do better.

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Rachel Barkow is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU. Professor Barkow teaches courses in criminal law, administrative law, and constitutional law. Her book, Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, was published by Harvard University Press/Belknap in the spring of 2019. She has written more than 40 articles and essays that span a range of topics including the relationship between modern sentencing laws and the constitutional role of the criminal jury.