Episode 4. Will Mingus, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of Lifetimes Magazine

Join us for an interview with Will Mingus, Ph.D.  He is the Editor in Chief of LifeTimes Magazine, America's only quarterly print magazine for people facing the adversity of being on a registry. LifeTimes often publishes profiles of people on registries who are happy, hopeful, and succeeding in life despite the many challenges of being a registered citizen. It also covers a myriad of topics of interest not only to registrants, but to anyone wishing to develop and maintain a positive outlook on life.

Will is also the Executive Director of Illinois Voices, a registry reform advocacy group in Illinois made up of volunteers who are concerned about the proliferation of public registries in the United States, and Illinois in particular. They focus their efforts in two main areas: Legislation and Litigation. Their legislative efforts include working closely with lawmakers to help them understand the collateral consequences of public registries, and providing them with empirical research regarding the ineffectiveness of registries. They actively oppose legislative efforts that are based on knee-jerk reaction to high profile, yet extremely rare, occurrences. Illinois Voices also works with civil rights attorneys to challenge laws that they believe are unconstitutional and ineffective.

Our hosts for this broadcast are Michael McKay, Elizabeth Christensen, Shawna Baldwin, and Dwayne Daughtry.