Cycles of Peace
For more than three decades, Chaplain Clementina Chéry has worked to transform how communities respond to homicide, grief, and violence. After her 15-year-old son, Louis D. Brown, was killed in 1993, ...
30 Sep 40min
Healing Inherited Trauma
In this episode of Crime Survivors Speak, host Aswad Thomas sits down with trauma-informed life coach, author, and advocate Priscilla María Gutiérrez to explore the lifelong impact of generational tra...
16 Sep 35min
The Power of Choice
In this episode of Crime Survivors Speak, host Aswad Thomas speaks with Marlee Liss—survivor, restorative justice advocate, somatic educator, and founder of Survivors 4 Justice Reform. After becoming ...
6 Maj 38min
The Victimization to Prison Pipeline
In this episode of Crime Survivors Speak, host Aswad Thomas sits down with Sommer Alexander, Texas Chapter Coordinator for TimeDone and a Reentry Peer Support Specialist with the Texas Harm Reduction ...
1 Apr 26min
Architects of Healing
In this episode of the Crime Survivors Speak podcast, host Aswad Thomas sits down with Juan Pablo Chavez, Organizing Director at Crime Survivors Speak and a longtime community organizer whose work bri...
4 Feb 27min
Reimagining Justice
In this episode of Crime Survivors Speak, Aswad Thomas sits down with restorative justice leader Ghani Songster, who spent 30 years in prison after being sentenced to life without parole as a teenager...
1 Dec 202542min
Hands on Healing
In this episode of Crime Survivors Speak, survivor advocate and community leader Elle Travis joins Aswad Thomas for a powerful conversation about survival, systemic failure, and the urgent need for ch...
2 Juli 202533min
