This weeks guest is Megan Edge, Director of the ACLU Alaska Prison Project.
Megan is a lifelong Alaskan and proud dog mom. She’s a former journalist, and advocates for solutions that create systemic change to systems that create harm, so we can all be safe, healthy and free.
**We want to provide a trigger warning that this episode does briefly discuss sxual assault and contains explicit language.**
Megan is a passionate activist in Alaska and we were so grateful to hear her perspective.
Updated stats from Megan: "41% of the prison population is Alaska Native. 22% of the state population is Alaska Native. And the budget passes at 437 million."
Megan related links:
ACLU Prison Project: https://bit.ly/acluprisonproject
Reading List from Megan:
My summer reading list. Look, I know summer reading lists are supposed to be romantic, but nothing makes me swoon like an informed human.
•“Stamped from the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi
•“Dread” by Ai
•“In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance” by Wilbert Rideau
•“Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America” by Gilbert King
•“We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba
•“Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner
•“American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment” by Shane Bauer
•“Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case” by Patricia Hruby Powell, Shadra Strickland
•“Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History” by Art Spiegelman
•“The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone and the Media” by Brooke Gladstone
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