On Smarter Safety Solutions, TEEM Leadership and Blackjack Christmas Featuring Patrice Sulton, Dr. Cecelia Martin and Victoria Rowell
Attorney Patrice Sulton, Executive Director of DC Justice Lab, discusses her ground breaking work revising the District of Columbia Criminal Code; Dr. Cecelia Martin, author of the book, Incarcerated: Escaping the Prison of Your Mind, explains what TEEM Leadership is and Award-Winning Actress Victoria Rowell talks about her new film projects, as well as issues she is passionate about. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/erik-fleming1/support
Dr. Cecelia Martin
Author / Motivational Speaker / Leadership Strategist
Dr. Cecelia Martin, author of Incarcerated: Escaping the Prison of Your Mind is a dynamic thought leader with a powerful story of survival, forgiveness, and hope. She effectively uses her life experiences and principle-centered leadership strategies to motivate others to their highest potential. She is an international speaker, best-selling author, coach, and leadership strategist. She travels around the world, offering her gifts through her thought-provoking teaching and life-changing framework of the TEEM Leadership model (train, equip, empower, & mobilize). Dr. Martin is the founder of TEEM Players Network, LLC and the TEEM Leadership Institute 501(c)(3). Her non-profit is designed to help troubled youth, children with incarcerated parents, youth living in high-poverty and expose them to better options for their future.
Patrice Sulton
Patrice Sulton is an attorney, criminal justice reform advocate, community organizer and law school professor who is powering a movement to fundamentally transform the criminal justice system in Washington DC, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country. She served on the District of Columbia’s Criminal Code Reform Commission (comprehensively rewriting DC’s criminal code), Police Reform Commission (recommending an overhaul DC’s approach to public safety), and Jails & Justice Task Force (publishing a plan to decarcerate by half and bring DC’s residents home to a safe environment).
She has represented clients in criminal and civil cases for 15 years, served on public commissions and worked alongside grassroots organizations in underestimated communities of color that are deeply impacted by over-policing, over-sentencing, and notoriously unsafe jails. These experiences inspired Patrice to launch DC Justice Lab, an innovative nonprofit that is driving a conversation about what constitutes public safety and reimagining public systems that ensure safety and justice for all. In creating a model for comprehensive change in Washington DC, she is laying the foundation for generating more effective and equitable systems everywhere.
Patrice is passionate about instructing the next generation of lawyers in constitutional law, criminal justice reform, racial equity, and in how to generate systems change. She is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School, where she teaches Adjudicatory Criminal Procedure and Tr… Read More
Victoria Rowell
Victoria Rowell is an award-winning actress, international lecturer, holds two 'honorary' doctorates - a teacher, advocate, mother, and former foster youth. She has been recognized by 193 members of Congress for advocacy work on behalf of education, arts, foster and adoptive youth and parents as well as diversity issues.
Her New York Times bestseller, The Women Who Raised Me, published by HarperCollins Publishers, received literary acclaim. Rowell also enjoys a literary book deal with Simon & Schuster for her popular soap opera novel series.
Rowell is an Emmy-nominated, NAACP-winning actress, who co-starred with Dick Van Dyke in the prime time television series Diagnosis Murder (1993) for VIACOM for eight seasons, as well as starring in Daytime television. Rowell was submitted for a Golden Globe Award, starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Home of the Brave (2006).
Other credits include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and other series. She stars in the movie, Marry Me For Christmas and an upcoming feature, What Love Will Make You Do. She has been in multiple films, starring opposite Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Jeff Bridges, Samuel L. Jackson, Beau Bridges, Forest Whitaker and more. Victoria is currently filming opposite The Blacklist/Man of Steel star, Harry Lennix.
Born in Maine, Rowell was raised on a 60 acre working farm and learned classical ballet from a book. She eventually turned professional and performed with American Ballet Theater (ABT) II and other professional ballet companies.
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