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Simone Price on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 25, 2024

Her personal experience with the criminal justice system is what put her on the path that she is on now, helping others become advocates. Listen now!

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Pauline Rogers on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 18, 2024

For 35 years, she has provided housing and other direct and supportive services to those reintegrating into society upon release from incarceration.

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Ladji Ruffin on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 11, 2024

After 23 years incarcerated, he took the skills he learned while in prison and started a Braille transcription business. Listen now!

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Emilee Shell on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 4, 2024

After four times in prison, she went to the sober living facility for women that she is currently the director of now. Listen now!

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Terry Johnson on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

February 26, 2024

He spent 22 years in prison, living every year like it might be his last. He’s found new purpose as a criminal justice reformer in Muskegan, Michigan.

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Candice Bailey on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

February 19, 2024

She was facing 48 years, and miraculously only served three years behind bars. She now serves as a triple state commissioner in Colorado.

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Matt Sutton on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

February 12, 2024

He’s gone from working in D.C., on drug policy, to now as director of communications for the nation’s largest reentry employment provider.

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Ruby Welch on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

February 5, 2024

She’s set her sights on building a network of “safe houses” for women across Arkansas. Ruby Welch (LwC 2023) joins the JustUs Speaks Podcast!

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Savvy Shabazz on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

January 29, 2024

He’s been recognized as a grassroots leader in the Louisville, Kentucky, community, and he’s making a huge impact statewide.

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Dismantling Jim Crow: Listen now to special episodes of the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

May 23, 2023

These special episodes of the JustUs Speaks Podcast are taken from a livestream event that was recorded in February for Black History Month.

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Daniel Bullman on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

April 4, 2023

Daniel Bullman on education as a deterrent for recidivism and the power of pro-social connections

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Philip Cooper on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 28, 2023

Philip Cooper on being a “Change Agent” and how prison saved his life

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Kim Woodson on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 22, 2023

Kim Woodson: A Global Vision for Providing Reentry Services for Formerly Incarcerated People

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Edwin Fuller on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 16, 2023

Edwin Fuller on helping other justice-impacted individuals in Ohio find dignity and hope

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Brittany Lovely on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

March 6, 2023

Anger used to be her driving force. Today she is motivated by love to tear down the criminal legal system and rebuild something just in its place.

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Andrew Winn on the JustUs Speaks Podcast

By JLUSA

February 27, 2023

As a kid, he enjoyed playing in the dirt. Today he helps give people in 10 California prisons the experience of gardening.