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Rita Williams

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192 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

Incredibly traumatic, but part of me, just in my gut, I was like, something is, other than what just happened to me, something is very wrong here. It sparked a need to find out what went so wrong. I ended up finding out that this particular county where all of this happened has a really long history of railroading people, mistreating people with disabilities, especially autism.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

I started publishing all of it. As a result of that, of looking for answers and trying to help people, I've been able to really plug into an amazing community and really just become who I am today. Somebody who's pursuing a doctorate in human services, trying to make the system better.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

I started publishing all of it. As a result of that, of looking for answers and trying to help people, I've been able to really plug into an amazing community and really just become who I am today. Somebody who's pursuing a doctorate in human services, trying to make the system better.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

I started publishing all of it. As a result of that, of looking for answers and trying to help people, I've been able to really plug into an amazing community and really just become who I am today. Somebody who's pursuing a doctorate in human services, trying to make the system better.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

Somebody who also still publishes about corruption and still puts those pieces out and helps people when they land in the middle of this, not sure where to go. So that's how I got here.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

Somebody who also still publishes about corruption and still puts those pieces out and helps people when they land in the middle of this, not sure where to go. So that's how I got here.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

Somebody who also still publishes about corruption and still puts those pieces out and helps people when they land in the middle of this, not sure where to go. So that's how I got here.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

I do. I still do a lot of blogging. I also do a lot of like content creation for I work for a nonprofit called Resilience Education. Amazing people. We do both in prison education and then post incarceration support of helping people get back up on their feet. I still write daily. I would be shocked to see if there is not something that I could find to write about.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

I do. I still do a lot of blogging. I also do a lot of like content creation for I work for a nonprofit called Resilience Education. Amazing people. We do both in prison education and then post incarceration support of helping people get back up on their feet. I still write daily. I would be shocked to see if there is not something that I could find to write about.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

I do. I still do a lot of blogging. I also do a lot of like content creation for I work for a nonprofit called Resilience Education. Amazing people. We do both in prison education and then post incarceration support of helping people get back up on their feet. I still write daily. I would be shocked to see if there is not something that I could find to write about.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

There's always something going on in the system, unfortunately. There's always some type of inequity, whether it's, unfortunately, the young man who recently lost his life in Idaho who had autism, or how does somebody get involved in court watching to prevent judicial misconduct and be able to inform their community of what's happening and help people make more informed decisions when voting?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

There's always something going on in the system, unfortunately. There's always some type of inequity, whether it's, unfortunately, the young man who recently lost his life in Idaho who had autism, or how does somebody get involved in court watching to prevent judicial misconduct and be able to inform their community of what's happening and help people make more informed decisions when voting?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

There's always something going on in the system, unfortunately. There's always some type of inequity, whether it's, unfortunately, the young man who recently lost his life in Idaho who had autism, or how does somebody get involved in court watching to prevent judicial misconduct and be able to inform their community of what's happening and help people make more informed decisions when voting?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

whether it's through LinkedIn or connecting with people or on my blog. Be careful what you wish for, right? Because I did become a true crime writer.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

whether it's through LinkedIn or connecting with people or on my blog. Be careful what you wish for, right? Because I did become a true crime writer.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

whether it's through LinkedIn or connecting with people or on my blog. Be careful what you wish for, right? Because I did become a true crime writer.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

So a big part of my spouse's case actually was what plugged me into it. I had already known from my education and then also from continuing ed that trauma, mental illness can play a very heavy role in the presence of criminality or what we define as a society as criminality. Because especially those judgment centers of your brain may not be firing the way that they should be.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

So a big part of my spouse's case actually was what plugged me into it. I had already known from my education and then also from continuing ed that trauma, mental illness can play a very heavy role in the presence of criminality or what we define as a society as criminality. Because especially those judgment centers of your brain may not be firing the way that they should be.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

So a big part of my spouse's case actually was what plugged me into it. I had already known from my education and then also from continuing ed that trauma, mental illness can play a very heavy role in the presence of criminality or what we define as a society as criminality. Because especially those judgment centers of your brain may not be firing the way that they should be.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Rita Williams: How One Woman Transformed Personal Trauma into Criminal Justice Reform

We found out actually after my spouse was incarcerated that he had high-functioning autism. Suddenly it was like everything clicked into place of like how sometimes he'd be looking at me but not looking at me or how his thoughts would be like so much farther ahead than everybody else's. Like we knew to an extent we were neurodivergent. Like I have ADHD. And so do our children.