On this week’s episode of The CAP·impact Podcast we talk with four legal experts about the shooting of Stephon Clark and the issues that have risen to the surface since that fateful night. Our experts are: former Deputy District Attorney – and McGeorge alumna – Alana Mathews; criminal defense attorney – and McGeorge alumnus –
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Working with Coalitions to Amplify Your Voice with Beth Hassett
By Jon Wainwright on
Posted in Policy Change, Sexual Assault & Harassment
Working with Coalitions to Amplify Your Voice
I sat down with Beth Hassett, the CEO and Executive Director of WEAVE – Women Escaping A Violent Environment – to talk about the policy work that it does. Like many of the organizations I’ve talked to, WEAVE is a 501 (c)(3) –…
Feds, State, County and City – None of them can act alone to solve homelessness
By Leslie Gielow Jacobs on
Posted in Homelessness, Policy Change
In some countries, the national government could devise a way to combat homelessness, fund it, and implement a single solution in the same way throughout the country. Not so in the United States. Despite the Court’s broad interpretation Congress’s commerce power, Congress does not have the power…