Podcast appearances and mentions of sonia kumar

Sonia Kumar, senior attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, explains the movement to restore the parole option to people sentenced for serious crimes in childhood. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-ytSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-ytLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Sonia Kumar, senior attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, explains the movement to restore the parole option to people sentenced for serious crimes in childhood. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-ytSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-ytLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

ACLU legal expert Sonia Kumar says the ruling slows but does not stop the movement toward more just sentencing for juveniles. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-ytSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-ytLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

ACLU legal expert Sonia Kumar says the ruling slows but does not stop the movement toward more just sentencing for juveniles. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-ytSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-ytLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

On April 20, 2021, the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial issued a guilty verdict on all three counts for the murder of George Floyd. However, one verdict is not justice – it’s simply accountability. Over 5,000 people were killed by police in the U.S. since 2015, including George Floyd and Anton Black, who were killed by police in eerily, terrifyingly similar ways. We talked to LaToya Holley, the sister of Anton Black, Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and Sonia Kumar, Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Maryland about the Derrick Chauvin verdict, the work being done to get justice for Anton Black and what we must do to reform policing the create a system that values and protects Black lives. Watch: Assessing the Claim or "Movement" to Defund the Police with Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle: https://youtu.be/BuG_yqnfQoU Read: Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle’s "When Baltimore Awakes" publication: https://bit.ly/3dMGDYk

As someone with lived experience, and as a person of mixed colour, Sonia brings a unique perspective to addressing eating disorders as a mental health issue, raising up the voices of people with lived experience and seeking more equitable access and support.      Sonia explains the issues and challenges facing people living with eating disorders , particularly through a pandemic that creates additional stress. She also shares some of the solutions developed by the national Body Peace Collaborative, including developing an award-winning e-platform for those experiencing eating disorders and their families, as well as to educate and support health care professionals to be better equipped to offer support.     Finally, Sonia shares some of her learning on the process.  Solving these bigger societal issues often can’t be accomplished by one organization and means coming together as a collaborative for collective impact.  This approach has its benefits and challenges, and Sonia shares both, concluding that it’s worth the effort.       Resources  Body Peace Collaborative/ Award-winning e-platform to access training, education and support: https://eatingdisordersu.org   Body Brave website: https://bodybrave.ca   Sonia Kumar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniaseguin   Priority Health Innovation Challenge:  https://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/what-we-do/find-and-promote-innovators-and-innovations/priority-health-innovation-challenge  World Eating Disorders Action Day: June 2  Innoweave’s Collective Impact stream:  https://innoweave.ca/streams/collective-impact/     . Thank you for listening to Impact Conversations with Lynn Fergusson & Sally Fazal . Find out more about our work at Social Impact Advisors: https://socialimpactadvisors.ca  

Episode 13: Sonia Kumar – Sonia is the cofounder and CEO of Body Brave and is also a national patient advocate with the Canadian Medical Association Patient Voice Committee. After recovering from a devastating eating disorder that nearly took her life, Sonia co-founded Body Brave (in 2017) in order to provide accessible support options for those struggling with eating disorders and their families. You can find Body Brave online at bodybrave.ca and on Instagram @bodybravecanada.

Eddie Conway talks to ACLU Maryland attorney Sonia Kumar, Never Again Action organizer Hallie Berkson-Gold, and ICE Free New Jersey activist Jorge Torres.

For years, people sentenced as children to life in prison with the possibility of parole, and their families, have tried to get Maryland to live up to the promise of second chances that a parole-eligible sentence is intended to provide. However, many barriers exist that stop this from happening. Many criminal justice stakeholders have turned to technology to help make parole decisions through “risk assessment tools.” Also labeled artificial intelligence, these tools have been touted as carrying with them the potential to save a broken system. However, these tools may exacerbate the same problems they are supposed to help solve. They rely on flawed criminal justice data that is not controlled for the institutional vestiges of slavery, de jure and de facto segregation, racial discrimination, and biased policing. In this episode we talk to Earl Young, who was sentenced to life as a young man; James Foulds, Assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems at UMBC; and Sonia Kumar, Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Maryland. What are the barriers to people getting a real opportunity to earn a second chance? What can you do to support meaningful reforms to parole systems, like the deeply flawed system in Maryland?

What impacts can we expect from the new policy of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney not to prosecute possession of marijuana? Former police detective Debbie Ramsay, now part of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, urges prosecutors and police not to square off in opposition, but together to listen to how citizens want marijuana laws enforced.Sonia Kumar, staff attorney for the A.C.L.U. of Maryland, says evidence to back up the new policy was clear six years ago. Read the report, ----The Maryland War on Marijuana in Black and White----.

Maryland’s prisons have clamped how on where inmates can acquire books--they can now can order from just two limited vendors. The department of corrections says books from other sources can be used to smuggle drugs, and that can fuel violence behind bars. We ask Sonia Kumar, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, why ACLU-MD contends the new restrictions violate the First Amendment.Then we talk to Glennor Shirley about her two decades running libraries in Maryland’s prisons and how she viewed her responsibility to her patrons.Here is the letter sent by ACLU-MD to DPSCSCheck out the Ear Hustle podcast here

Should young offenders who rape or kill be sentenced to life in prison, and if so, should they be treated differently than adults who commit crimes of violence? Since 2005, the Supreme Court has had a lot to say about how we treat juveniles who kill and rape. The high court banned the death penalty for offenders under 18. It limited sentences of life without parole to those convicted of murder. It banned the use of mandatory life without parole, though some states, including Maryland, still have it as an option. And even in cases where juveniles serving life might be eligible for parole, in Maryland the governor has the final say. Therefore, the American Civil Liberties Union argues that Maryland has de facto life without parole for juvenile offenders, and the ACLU says that unconstitutional. To explain a lawsuit filed against the state, Dan's guest is Sonia Kumar, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland. Further reading: An overview of juveniles and life without parole from the Sentencing Project.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-juvenile-life-hearing-20170103-story.htmlhttp://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/juvenile-life-without-parole/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-sp-frank-deford-obituary-0530-20170529-story.html