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.

This episode of We Don’t Have to Choose with Mary Moriarty features independent journalist Jessica Pishko.

Jessica Pishko is an independent journalist and lawyer who has been writing about the criminal legal system for a decade with a focus on the political power of law enforcement officials. Since 2018, she has been focused on American sheriffs and their role—past and present—in perpetuating mass incarceration and white supremacy as well as how sheriffs present a growing threat to democracy in this country. Previously, Pishko was a fellow at the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina, researching sheriff accountability. She has received grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and Type Investigations. Her work has appeared in the New York Times op-ed section, Politico, Slate, the Atlantic, and the Appeal. In addition, her newsletter on sheriffs and their political power has been recognized by the NYU American Journalism Online Awards.