#64: Remembering Matthew Shepard w/ LGBTQ Activist Judy Shepard
Freedom Writers Podcast
English - August 31, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes - 58.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #63: Chris Levinson: Letters From My Father
Next Episode: #65: Letters to Strangers with Diana Chao
On this week's episode, join Erin Gruwell for a candid conversation about healing after tragedy with the impactful LGBTQIA+ advocate and activist, Judy Shepard. Judy is the mother of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student who was savagely tortured, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming in October of 1998. In the wake of his loss, Judy and her husband embarked on a campaign for change - one that took her from her humble hometown in Wyoming, to the highest office in the land, the White House. She has been instrumental in enacting meaningful hate crime legislation on behalf of her son and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Learn more about the Matthew Shepard Foundation: https://www.matthewshepard.org/