Dusting for Prints: Policing, Culture & Culprits with Lorimer Shenher (Coming December 15, 2021‪)‬ Lorimer Shenher

Jett Garrison (he/they) is a Transgender *WGA writer and director currently staffed as a writer on the CW Network's reboot of THE 4400. Jett's known for directing the award-winning digital series THESE THEMS, winning the Best Director Award from Chicago's PRIDE FILMS Festival. He's won an EMMY and been nominated for an OSCAR for his short film work. Jett's feature script QUICK QUICK SLOW was a finalist in OUTFEST’s Screenwriting lab and his half-hour pilot 
MAX, AGAIN is an autobiographical take on his own journey going through a second puberty later in life.
Jett started his filmmaking career in Austin, Texas where his first feature documentary premiered at SXSW.  As a fellow in Film Independent’s PROJECT:INVOLVE directing program, Jett’s work was sponsored by “NBC/Universal” and featured in “Vanity Fair”. Jett was also a fellow in SONY’s Diverse Directors Program and was invited to participate in Ryan Murphy’s HALF Initiative Directing Program.
Coming of age in Austin, Texas in the early 90s, Jett lived most of his early adulthood as a masculine of center Lesbian until coming out as Transgender. As a Transgender storyteller, Jett explores themes of queerness, chosen family and marginalized communities.
Member: WGA West
https://www.jettgarrison.com/jett

El Jones is a spoken word poet, an educator, journalist, and a community activist living in African Nova Scotia. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax. In 2016, El was a recipient of the Burnley “Rocky” Jones human rights award for her community work and work in prison justice. She is a co-founder of the Black Power Hour, a live radio show with incarcerated people on CKDU that creates space for people inside to share their creative work and discuss contemporary social and political issues, and along with this work, she supports women in Nova Institution in writing and sharing their voices. El was named the Nancy's Chair of Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University for the 2017-2019 term. Her book of spoken word poetry, Live from the Afrikan Resistance! was published by Roseway Press in 2014. She also writes for The Breach and numerous other publications. 
El would like to pay tribute to the many nameless and unrecognized women whose work makes it possible for her to be here and speak today. (Bio courtesy of Poetry in Voice)

Parker Johnson is a group facilitator, mediator, intercultural educator and organizational change specialist who is committed to building inclusive, equitable and just organizations.

Most recently he worked for 10 years at the City of Vancouver as an Equal Employment Opportunity Advisor, where we met and worked together before his becoming an independent consultant in 2018.

A graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in administration, planning and social policy, Parker rounds out his continuing education with mediation, coaching, intercultural communication and anti-oppression work.

Across North America, he has been part of the thought leadership in this arena for over three decades. He brings his depth of knowledge in the theory and research to his primary purpose of practical and transformative application.

Vancouver-based freelance journalist Melanie Green is no stranger to crossroads. Faced with the demise of print media just as she completed her studies in Communications, Media Culture and Analysis, Political Economy and Policy, at SFU,  she dove headlong into a journalism program at Langara College, where she was awarded the 2017 Penny Wise Langara-Journalism BCYCNA Scholarship,. This led her to various media organizations including CBC Radio where she received the 2017 Read-Mercer  Scholarship. After a turn at the ill-fated Star Metro Vancouver, Melanie landed at Pacific Content—Canada's top brand podcast agency—as a podcast host, producer, and audience development specialist. 

Constantly curious. Melanie puts people first and finds new ways to tell compelling stories. Interested in culture, technology, politics, public policy and the point at which they intersect. Skilled in cultivating connections, storytelling, digging & research, creative problem solving and using multiple mediums. 

I caught up with Melanie to talk all things media, the push to hire for diversity and inclusion, and the toll it takes carrying the weight of the expectations for entire cultures and identities. 

I speak with Dr. Pamela Palmater, a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor, author, and social justice activist from Ugpi’gan’jig (Eel River Bar First Nation). She has 4 university degrees, including a Doctorate in Law from Dalhousie University specializing in Indigenous law. She currently holds the position of full Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.
Pam was one of the spokespeople and public educators for the Idle No More movement and advocates alongside other movements focusing on social justice and human rights. She is frequently called as a legal expert before Parliamentary, Senate and United Nations committees dealing with laws and policies impacting Indigenous peoples and is considered one of Canada’s Top 25 Influential Movers and Shakers by the Financial Post.

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Resources:
Pam Palmater Website                       
https://www.pampalmater.com
YouTube                     
https://www.youtube.com/c/PamPalmaterchannel
Indigenous Nationhood Blog              
https://www.indigenousnationhood.blogspot.com
Warrior Life Podcast  
https://www.soundcloud.com/pampalmater
Warrior Kids podcast  
https://www.soundcloud.com/warriorkidspodcast
Twitter & Instagram                           Pam_Palmater
Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest            Pam Palmater
TikTok                                                pp2cool

Omri Rose is an Israeli-American-British on-camera and voice actor, podcast host and one of the creators behind Wondery's Shadow of Truth, the podcast accompaniment to the Netflix miniseries of the same name, which told the story of the 2006 murder of Tair Rada, a 13-year old Israeli girl, and became one of Netflix’s most-watched true-crime docs in 2018.
 
 It’s a tragic case that shocked all of Israel. The miniseries brought this story of police tunnel vision, a legal system’s rush to judgment and wrongful conviction—and Tair’s own mother’s quest to find her daughter’s real killer—to the attention of the world.
 
 We talk about the case, the creation of Shadow of Truth, and our shared skepticism of systems of so-called justice around the world. Omri shares how this work has inspired him and led him to create his latest podcast Spies and Lies, another real-life exploration of the world of espionage as seen through the eyes and past work of his co-host and father, former spy-master and intelligence operative, Jason.
 
 https://wondery.com/shows/shadow-of-truth/

https://play.acast.com/s/spies-and-lies