Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigoso. Welcome to the show. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hey everyone. Thank you for being here.

Today I am joined by Brittany Pac-nickham.

She's an activist educator and writer whose new podcast is called Undistracted. It's a show focused on news, culture, and politics

told through the lens of intersectional feminism. Its aim is to create a more just world that will work for all of us.

As you'll hear in our talk, that fight for justice is a battle she started waging as a child,

growing up in St. Louis, Missouri in the 80s and 90s, but it wasn't until 30 years later that you perhaps

became familiar with Brittany. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed black man, was shot down by Officer

Darren Wilson in Ferguson. You know this story by now. The shooting occurred only 12 minutes

away from Brittany's house. 12 minutes and about 8 miles of separation between her and him.

In the aftermath of Brown's death, Brittany became a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement.

She worked as a teacher for Teach for America,

a member of President Barack Obama's task force

on 21st century policing, and now a regular NBC contributor. But today she's here with us to work through the moment

we find ourselves in. The fatigue that I know we're all trying to combat, the grief of watching guilty people being acquitted, rioters

vindicated, a political system, in repair. Brittany has worked tirelessly

over the past seven years. You may be familiar with some of her work. You may not be.

My hope is that you leave this conversation with not just a renewed sense of purpose in this fight for

racial equality, but also an understanding of the toll it takes to keep fighting and to do the very real work we have ahead.

This is Brittany Pachne at Cunningham.

And thanks for being here. Brittany? Hi.

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