O TYM ODCINKU
Originally posted March 10, 2020—29:09 listening time)
Occasionally I have those “what just happened?” moments. Like when my 93-year-old mother called me “Dude.” This interview was one of those moments. After gaining a sense of her educational background and training, Alison reveals her rather interesting mentor and details for an upcoming exciting adventure. I teased her about there being luggage in the waiting room and an Uber idling outside as we did our interview. It wasn’t quite that imminent, but when this interview airs she will be in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to present workshops on Women in Crime, having been awarded a Fulbright for the four-month trip.
Alison is an avid trail runner and will be running in the Transylvania 100K, an event that begins at Dracula’s Castle while she is there. She reports that participants have been warned about bears and wolves along the route. Oh yes, and since she is there? She is invited to present at the 29th UN Women's Conference in Vienna.
Her SOU students have benefited from a number of trips across the Atlantic as part of a summer “Study Away” program including visits to London, Paris, and then The Hague and Amsterdam. It was great for her to see CCJ students as ambassadors.
When it comes to the CCJ classroom, Criminal Theory and Juvenile Offenders are her specialties. She also focuses on the role of women in crime and identifying and taking on educational bias. She discusses some of the new pedagogical techniques she is using to keep her classes fresh and describes the mock trial she recently held in class (with a special guest judge) and some future goals for the CCJ program that are percolating away.
She wraps up with tips for prospective students and her work locally with RESOLVE, a mediation organization that is helping students in trouble within the Medford schools. She has promised to come back and do a follow-up after her trip. I’m hoping for a wooden stake from Dracula's Castle, but I won’t push it.
Details on the Transylvania 100K race Outtake:
The initial telling of the SOU in London story (4:02)
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