Listen to Steven talk about healing from complex trauma on YJ's The Yoga Show podcast.Robert SturmanMedeiros, who identifies as Latinx and Hawaiian, has both witnessed and experienced the oppressive, detrimental effects of the American criminal justice system on people of color and impoverished populations.
Growing up in Fremont, a racially diverse city in the Bay Area, he was exposed early on to police harassment of his community.
His mother, a single mom who suffered from addiction, was incarcerated for a drug offense when he was only four years old. With his father out of the picture, Medeiros went to live with his paternal grandparents, who raised him.
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