# Helen Prejean
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helen prejean, C.S.J. (born April 21, 1939) is a Roman Catholic sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph based in New Orleans, and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.
Prejean founded the groups SURVIVE to help families of victims of murder and related crimes.
The Future of Justice in an Age of Uncertainty
Recorded 18 June 2026.
What does justice look like in a world shaped by growing political division, global conflict, and increasing uncertainty?
Join former President of Ireland and Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese, Baroness Helena Kennedy, and Sister Helen Prejean, internationally renowned advocat...
Sister Helen
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I was going to be doing was writing letters. And lo and behold, two years later, I am in that execution chamber.” When we spoke to her in 2021, she was 81...
Sister Helen
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row in Louisiana’s Angola State Prison named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I was going to be doing was writing letters. And lo and behold, two years later, I am in that execution chamber.” She’s...
Mary Stein, Sis. Helen Prejean, Meredith Hathorn, Holly Carey
Assistant Director for the East Baton Rouge Parish Library Mary Stein gives insight into what's new at the library in the month of October. For more information, visit https://www.ebrpl.com/events-classes/#/events/. Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of th...
Houthis Intensify Attacks on Saudi Arabia
Tensions are escalating as the Houthis ramp up their attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government has long backed the Yemeni government forces in their fight against the Houthis, but this is the first time the country has found itself so vulnerable. Correspondent Nic Robertson joins the show for...
Sonya Pfeiffer and Denny LeBoeuf
Denny LeBoeuf spent 13 years bartending in the French Quarter before going to law school at Tulane, a path she returned to a decade later when a bar regular told her philosophy was a good prelude to a law degree. In this conversation with Sonya Pfeiffer, she traces that unlikely route into capita...
Episode 11 - Double Standards
First Tuesday Podcast | Deconstruction Dictionary
Double digits and double standards! We're back, Tuesday People!
After a much-needed break, April and D.C. are back together in person, and there's no shortage of things to unpack.
This week's Deconstruction Dictionary word is Double Standard: an u...
MARGARET WHEATLEY: How to keep going as the world becomes more troubled
Margaret (Meg) Wheatley (collapse theorist, leadership elder), after working in systems change for more than 50 years, wants to warn us that our current moment demands that we learn how to persevere. Many of us have been “struggling” to “fix” what’s going on in the world and we’re angry, sad, exh...
