On this episode, Eva Maria Lewis talks about Poverty-induced gun violence, a term she coined, and Healing Black Women as the Key to Chicago’s Gun Violence Epidemic. Eva Maria Lewis is the Founder and Executive Director of Free Root Operation, a nonprofit working to empower Black women and their families impacted by poverty-induced gun violence on the south and west sides of Chicago and beyond. 

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