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Social Enterprise Entrepreneur/Author/Criminal Defense Organizer
Igniting your Activism!
Disrupt the CJ-SOO: The Easy Way To Learn Your Rights
Now Available for Purchase!
Disrupt the Criminal Justice System of Oppression is a book series created to simplify the rights we need to know to assist in proactively protecting us from mass incarceration. Each book comes with a syllabus so that anyone who buys or receives the book can then teach others their rights in a simplified way. Courtney Teasley is an avid user of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and has made it the primary language for her social enterprise, emeffen finding that teaching in the language of the D.A.M.M. community of which she is from, is more effective than using legal jargon. Book 1 of the series is available now in the emeffen. Universe only!
About Courtney Teasley
Experience:
After ten years of practicing mainly criminal defense and making Nashville history as a judicial campaign manager, Courtney Teasley decided she didn't want to wait until the next election to continue creating the change she wanted to see; she wanted more change, way faster. Now, she has converted her law practice into a full, PROACTIVE coaching and consulting firm where she can assist lawyers in starting their own criminal defense law practices with a trajectory to the bench, as well as train the community on how to represent themselves with a lawyer present by providing strategic defense case preparation. Courtney Teasley has also married her criminal defense and campaign manager careers to create what she refers to as 'Criminal Defense Organizing.' Her proprietary method of organizing and training has proven helpful in her most recent case, #DisruptManchester. In alignment with her #Disrupt initiatives, Courtney Teasley has written her first book that is part of a series she has entitled, "Disrupt the CJ-SOO: The Easy Way to Learn Your Rights." Courtney Teasley is currently organizing with lawyers worldwide to teach the Criminal Defense Organizing method to proactively disrupt the early stages of this system of oppression that often lead to mass incarceration.
Courtney Teasley's Why?
The United States currently leads the world with over 2 million people being incarcerated, and the majority of them are black bodies. Recent studies have shown that Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons 5x the rate of White Americans. This is even worse when the U.S. Census Bureau reports white Americans as 60% of the majority and African Americans as 13.4% of the entire country. In 12 states, more than half of the prison population is Black. After disrupting as a criminal defense lawyer and social justice activist and dismantling as a campaign manager, she has decided that more innovative and proactive products and services are needed to speed up the change she is demanding and that the D.A.M.M. community desperately needs. The launch of her social enterprise emeffen. is to create a proactive movement that embraces those most oppressed by the criminal justice system.
emeffen.
A black-, woman-, millennial-owned brand that creates proactive products and services to disrupt and dismantle the Criminal Justice system of oppression!
#DisruptManchester
Learn about the criminal defense organizing efforts surrounding a black man from Georgia, his significant other, and their five children being taken by TN DCS due to simple possession of marijuana.
Trainings
Courtney Teasley teaches the emeffen method for criminal defense organizing in cases that utilize the entire community to embrace those most oppressed by the criminal justice system. Contact us to discuss having Courtney train your community or organization.
