What Do District Attorneys Do? with District Attorney Rachael Rollins

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Rachael Rollins is the first woman of color to be elected as a district attorney in Massachusetts. She joins Jonathan to discuss what the day-to-day life of a DA looks like, the struggles transition team faced , strengthening community bonds, her new approaches to officer involved shootings, and more. You can find more of DA Rollins' work on Twitter @DARollins and Instagram @rollins4da. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:03.9	B&B I knew getting curious.
0:05.8	I don't know if you say like, uh, in French, but whatever.
0:09.4	Welcome to getting curious.
0:10.8	I'm Jonathan Vaness, and every week I sit down for what I attempt to be a 30 minute conversation,
0:14.7	but a lot of times it's not, let's be real, with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:19.6	This week I'm curious about, who are you anyway, Rachel Rollins?
0:23.2	She is the Distroge Attorney of Suffolk County, which includes Boston,
0:27.1	but honey, that is not all.
0:28.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:31.0	A welcome to getting curious.
0:32.5	This is Jonathan Vaness.
0:33.4	I'm so excited.
0:34.6	I'm, wow, I really just got lost in your gaze.
0:36.8	I'm welcome to the podcast, Rachel Rollins.
0:40.5	Yes.
0:41.0	I mean, what are you supposed to call, like, what's like a Distroge Attorney's like first?
0:44.2	Like, do I call you like Doc?
0:45.8	No, no, no, no, no.
0:46.7	You're going to call me Rachel for the next however long we're talking,
0:50.2	but people actually refer to you as Madam Distroge Attorney.
0:53.2	It's like the best thing.
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