Sustainability Now! | Keturah Herron | KY House District 42 Candidate | 2-14-22

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, gets you ready to vote this week! Keturah Herron (D) and Judy Stallard (R) are running in the special general election on February 22, 2022 for Kentucky House of Representatives District 42 to fill the seat vacated by Reggie Meeks. District 42 has been redistricted after the 2020 census by the KY Legislature (over-riding Gov. Beshear's veto), but the new map won't take effect until the General Election in November. For now, District 42 stretches from west to east all the way from Rubbertown and South Parkland, through the Central Park area of Old Louisville and Shelby Park, up through Paristown Pointe and the Original Highlands, into Clifton and Crescent Hill.

Under new Kentucky law, voters will have the chance to participate in three days of early in-person, no-excuse absentee voting on Thursday 2/17, Friday 2/18, and Saturday 2/19 from 8:30am-4:30pm at the Election Center (1000 E. Liberty Street), or St. Stephens Church (1018 S 15th St.). Full information is at http://elections.jeffersoncountyclerk.org

On this week’s show, we sit down for an in-depth conversation with one of those candidates. Keturah Herron, born and raised in Kentucky, is a social justice advocate and change agent with over 15 years of experience working with youth and families involved in the social service and criminal justice systems. She is a graduate of the University of Louisville and holds a Masters in Juvenile Justice from Eastern Kentucky University. While in graduate school, Keturah focused on the effects of parental incarceration on youth and disproportionate minority contact within the juvenile justice system.

Since then, she has mentored and supported youth and families in rural and urban Kentucky as well as communities in South Carolina and Hawaii, working in a variety of settings – juvenile youth facilities, community-based organizations and in the court system. More recently, Keturah’s work has focused on policy change through a social justice lens. She is working closely with the Jefferson County Public Schools System Alternative School Task Force and Race Equity Policy in, Louisville with a focus on ending the school to prison pipeline. She is also active with several local groups: Kentuckians For the Commonwealth; Black Lives Matter Louisville; ACLU of Kentucky; and Louisville Family Justice Advocates. Currently, Herron is building culturally responsive curriculum for justice involved youth that integrates trauma-informed healing and leadership development.

More information about Keturah is available at
https://keturah4ky.com/
https://twitter.com/keturahherron
https://www.facebook.com/keturah.herron

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