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Boston Public Radio PodcastBPR Full Show 6/16: No Kings, Just PrincessesWe start the show by asking listeners about a weekend of demonstrations, including 'No King' rallies and the military parade. Anand Giridharadas, political commentator, discusses the shut-down of protests Saturday in LA, Trump's military parade and the political violence in Minnesota.Lucy Wightman discusses her new memoir "Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston's Most Famous Stripper."Lisa Thurau and Kristen Wheeler of Strategies for Youth, a Cambridge-based nonprofit, discuss the increase in pretrial detention for youths last year that are the result of law enforcement's decision to arrest young people for misdemeanors. ...
2025-06-162h 32Boston Public Radio Podcast'My Life As Boston's Most Famous Stripper' & Massachusetts Is Backsliding On Youth Justice ReformToday:Lucy Wightman joins Jim and Margery ahead of this week's release of her memoir, "Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston's Most Famous Stripper."And, a new report shows Massachusetts is backsliding on some aspects of juvenile justice reform. We speak with Lisa Thurau and Kristen Wheeler of Cambridge-based nonprofit Strategies for Youth.
2025-06-1639 min
Chief Influencer®Lisa Thurau on Educating Disparate Audiences - Chief Influencer - Episode # 033Lisa Thurau is the Executive Director of Strategies for Youth. Lisa founded the nonprofit in 2009 aimed at improving police-youth interactions and reducing the disproportionate impact on minority youth. The organization provides its training, outreach programs, and policy reviews in 25 states, guiding law enforcement in their interactions with youth. Lisa joins Host Anthony Shop to discuss how to adapt core messages to resonate with many different audiences, how to make training effective, and how to influence hard-to-reach groups.Takeaways:Before affecting real change, it is crucial to identify and address information gaps. For example...
2024-01-1040 min
The Imprint WeeklyThe Best of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, 2021 EditionWe had some amazing guests join us on The Imprint Weekly Podcast this year, and we reviewed the entire 2021 archive to bring you clips from some of the very best! This episode includes clips of 20 interviews from this year. Guests on this episode include:Melissa Thompson, Melanie Jordan and Cam Lundstrom of the Office of Respondent Parent Counsel in ColoradoChristopher Scott and Lino Peña-Martinez of Sun ScholarsGary Ivory, president of Youth Advocate ProgramsFormer juvenile judge Karen Baynes-DunningMichelle Caldeira, senior vice president of College Bound DorchesterDorothy Roberts, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Program on Race...
2021-12-2751 minThe Imprint Weekly“Kids Are Not a Priority Until They’re a Problem”On this week’s episode, we discuss California’s looming foster care cliff for older youth, obesity-as-neglect in Pennsylvania, and the passing of a major figure in international adoption. Lisa Thurau, the head of Strategies for Youth, joins us to talk about the true front door of the juvenile justice system: police encounters with youth. We talked about the origins of her organization, how it trains law enforcement to think differently about engaging young people, and what she thinks will come of the current moment of reckoning around police and civil rights. Donate to Fostering Media...
2021-12-1258 min
SchoolHouse: Equity in EducationRegulating Police... in SchoolsCJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Lisa Thurau, Executive Director of Strategies for Youth, about the troubling presence of police in schools, the need for training, and states’ failure to regulate police in their interactions with young people.
2017-08-1800 min