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Christina Carrega, National Criminal Justice Reporter for Capital B, highlights, and updates, certain criminal justice stories; Sharon Kyle, Publisher of the L. A. Progressive Newsletter, talks about her perspective on national and California politics; and Joe Trippi, Senior Advisor to The Lincoln Project, explains the importance of innovation and tenacity in campaigning during this presidential election year. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erik-fleming1/support
Publisher
Sharon Kyle is the former president of the Guild Law School in Los Angeles, law school that trains public interest attorneys. Sharon is an admitted social justice media activist. She is currently the publisher and co-founder of the LA Progressive, a daily digital political magazine that she and her partner/husband, Dick Price have distributed for more than 15 years. Before immersing herself in the law and social justice, Ms. Kyle was a member of several space flight teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she managed resources for projects like Magellan, Genesis, and Mars Pathfinder. Sharon also sits on several boards including the Board of Directors of the ACLU and the editorial board of the BlackCommentator.com.
National Criminal Justice Report for Capital B
Christina Carrega is an award-winning journalist, who is currently the national criminal justice reporter for Capital B and an adjunct professor with the American Journalism Online Graduate Program at New York University.
Previously, Christina was a crime and justice reporter for CNN, multimedia reporter for ABC News, news editor of the Queens Daily Eagle and Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspapers as well as a courts reporter for the New York Daily News and New York Post.
During Christina's career, she has covered wrongful conviction cases, thoroughly reported on high-profile trials and investigated alleged scams in the travel and childcare industries.
Christina's professional journalism career began as a freelancer with the Canarsie Courier and newspaper director for The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, a nonprofit after school program in Queens, New York.
The New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) awarded her first place for 2017's' and 2014's Best Spot News and in 2013 was a finalist for the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) Best Single News Story.
She previously served as NYABJ's vice president of broadcast. She also is on the board for the Criminal Justice Journalists organization and is a mentor with Report for America.
Christina is a first-generation born American and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from St. John's University where she majored in Journalism and minored in International Studies.
Democratic Strategist/Senior Advisor for The Lincoln Project
Joe Trippi is credited for his pioneering work to bring political campaigns into the digital age. As National Campaign Manager for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, Trippi’s vision of using the Internet to connect directly with the campaign’s supporters changed the way all campaigns would be waged going forward. The Atlantic magazine says Trippi’s influence on Democratic Party politics has been profound and lasting.
Trippi currently serves as a senior strategist for several nonprofit and corporate clients, as well as a Senior Adviser to The Lincoln Project, where he is helping build a pro-democracy coalition to take on the authoritarian threat to our democracy. Trippi also serves as a Senior Advisor to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Trippi was a senior strategist on Doug Jones's historic victory in Alabama, helping elect the first Democratic U.S. Senator in Alabama in 25 years. Trippi wrote the ads and helped build the campaign strategy which raised over $22 million online.
Trippi began his political career working on Edward M. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980. Since then, he has led efforts on a number of presidential, gubernatorial, senate, and congressional campaigns. Trippi was responsible for groundbreaking media strategies that helped elect Ro Khanna,, Mark Takano, Seth Moulton, and Kweisi Mfume, among others. He was also the media consultant and senior strategist behind California Governor Jerry Brown's historic come-from-behind victory in 2010 despite being outspent 4:1.
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