Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. I'm Mina B, and I'm a licensed social worker, mental health educator, and author of owning our struggles. I'll be chatting with experts, wellness advocates,

and others about the power of community care in improving your mental health. We'll delve

into topics such as friendships, managing difficult relationships, and most importantly,

how to cultivate belonging and support in our lives. Now, let's jump into today's

episode. Felicia A. Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.

Her research interests include race, ethnicity, gender, class, carceral studies slash geography, environmental sociology, social

vulnerability, and community resilience to disasters.

Felicia is also the founder of Behind the Walls Between the Lines, a movement to deepen the awareness

of the legacy of racial inequity in America, particularly

within a criminal justice system and inspire activism aimed at its dismantlement.

Hi, Felicia. Welcome to the show. Hi, Nina.

Thank you for inviting me.

I'm very excited to be here.

Well, I'm very excited because I'm just going to put it all out there, y'all.

So Felicia is my friend in real life.

Right?

And so I am very excited to have this conversation with you more so because, you know,

it's really wonderful having friends

who are just full of wisdom and full of knowledge, and you are that person. And so I'm going to

share you with the world today because I think the world needs to know your wisdom and knowledge

in the work that you do. So first off, you are a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.

However, your research interests are the things that I really want to talk about because they are so robust, but very important, especially in the current climate that we're living in.

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