Weightless In Mind, Body & Spirit - Season 8 Episode 10_How Reparations Could Heal the Racial Divide - Dr. Carol Penn hosts Dr. Andrea McChristian

Weightless with Dr. Carol Penn

**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• For more information or to Register for Dr. Carol's 90-Day Wildfit Program, starting April 14, 2022...send an email to [e-mail] with "WildFit" in the subject line.
• Connect with this episode's Super-friend, Dr. Andrea McChristian about her work at The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice @ [e-mail].

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Hosted by Dr. Carol Penn, DO, & Diem Jones this exciting 10-part Series, now in Season 8, is presented by Penn Global Visions and Dr. Carol's team of Super-friends as we explore the worlds of: weight loss; weight loss maintenance; aging in reverse; heart health; optimizing health and well being.

Weightless in Mind Body and Spirit, is designed to assist each participant in the journey of outrageous self-care and how to prioritize themselves on behalf of achieving their best and highest self. Over the course of our show you will learn how to balance your Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system. Tune in to this episode as we discuss "Forgiveness, Healing the Soul of the Community" with Super-friend, Dr. Andrea McChristian.

Produced by: Kenya Pope, http://goddess.kenyapope.com

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Featured Guest:

Dr. Andrea McChristian, Law & Policy Director

Andrea McChristian is the Law & Policy Director at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. In this capacity, she leads the implementation of the strategic vision and the direction of the Law and Policy program. Andrea oversees the programmatic function of the Institute’s three pillars of social justice: Democracy & Justice, Economic Justice and Criminal Justice Reform. Prior to becoming Law & Policy Director, Andrea served as the Director of the Criminal Justice Reform initiative and was the primary author of Bring Our Children Home: Ain't I A Child, which forms the basis of the150 Years is Enough campaign. Andrea's writing on juvenile justice and racial justice has been published in the Star-Ledger, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and NJ Spotlight.

Before joining the Institute, Andrea served as a Litigation Associate at the New York office of Fried,Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson ("Fried Frank"). During her time at Fried Frank, Andrea worked on complex commercial litigation and pro-bono cases.

Andrea is a 2008 graduate of Yale University, graduating with distinction in the major of Political Science. At Yale, Andrea served as co-President of the Yale NAACP, co-reactivating the chapter after a years-long absence from campus. After graduation, Andrea joined Teach for America, teaching Head Start for two years in the Las Vegas Valley. Andrea then attended Columbia LawSchool where she participated in the Challenging the Consequences of Mass Incarceration Clinic, interned in Auckland, New Zealand as part of the law school's Human Rights Internship Program, and interned at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. After graduating from ColumbiaLaw School in 2013 as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Andrea clerked for Chief Judge Petrese B.Tucker of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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