Podcast with Lauren van Schilfgaarde: Restorative Justice as Regenerative Tribal Jurisdiction
This podcast episode accompanies the article from Professor van Schilfgaarde: Restorative Justice as Regenerative Tribal Jurisdiction.
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Peter Mason, Professor Lauren van Schilfgaarde
Peter Mason 00:00
For more than a century, the United States has restricted Tribal governments' powers over criminal law. It has diminished Tribal jurisdiction and imposed adversarial approaches on Tribal courts. But recently, some Tribal courts have begun to embrace Indigenous-based restorative justice models. How are these models strengthening both Tribal courts and Tribal jurisdiction more broadly? My name is Peter Mason, and you're listening to the California Law Review podcast. Our goal is to provide an accessible and thought-provoking overview of the scholarship we publish. In today's episode, we will be discussing Restorative Justice As Regenerative Tribal Jurisdiction, a piece by UCLA School of Law Assistant Professor Lauren van Schilfgaarde. This piece was published in Issue One of Volume 112 in February 2024. Professor van Schilfgaarde, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me today about your article.
Professor van Schilfgaarde 00:51
Thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor to be here.
Peter Mason 00:56
To begin with, can you summarize your main arguments in this piece?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 01:01
Sure. My aim was to highlight both what's happening within Tribal courts, but also to highlight the really interesting contrasts with what's happening in criminal law, and specifically restorative justice. So my estimation of my argument is that one, restorative justice as being implemented within Tribal courts is functioning a little bit differently. It's related to restorative justice writ large, that is sort of a clap back to the carceral, adversarial based system. But with Tribes, it's also gesturing back to pre-contact, and certainly continuously existing, Indigenous values and systems that are really exciting. My other argument is that in doing so, Tribes are experiencing a really interesting reception to their restorative justice, in the face of what has been a historical suppression of Tribal authority, especially in the criminal space. Through restorative justice, Tribes are actually starting to expand their jurisdictional reach, namely, through collaborative agreements with states in a way that I don't think any criminal justice practitioner anticipated within the Tribal state sphere. All of which to say, there's something really cool and interesting that's happening on the ground with Tribal courts and restorative justice.
Peter Mason 02:39
What motivated you to write this article?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 02:42
Personal experience and an opportunity to engage with Tribal courts directly led to this. Prior to joining academia, I worked with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute for eight years in between law school and coming back into the academy. And in that work, I got to visit a number of Tribal courts in-person and I got to work with an even greater number of Tribal courts in other spaces. In that work, I got to see a lot of different iterations of Tribes engaging with the issues day to day--just the day to day docket and grind of issues facing communities. But I also got to see a lot of really incredible innovations: Tribes leveraging the drug court model that has been really successful outside of Tribal courts, but also ways in which Tribes were molding that model to fit their own communities. So that was cool. But then I also got to see this collaborative work, which has been, I think, really under-theorized and really, really under-noticed in a lot of Tribal courts. And so with that, I thought it was really important to just identify that Tribal courts exist, are an important component of the American legal system which is woefully under theorized within the legal academy, but also that Tribes are are not just reacting or duplicating American or Western legal models, but they're really crafting them to their own. Which is incredible all by itself, given the significant pressures for Tribes to mimic Western models in the name of legitimacy. But given this resistance, it's all the more remarkable how successful they are.
Peter Mason 04:44
In the introduction to your article, you name a few background concepts that help set things up. Specifically, you discuss the role of Tribal courts with respect to the sovereign powers of Tribes more generally, and the concepts of internal and external legitimacy as they relate to Tribal courts. To get us started, can you explain those concepts and their relevance to your argument in this article?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 05:02
Yes, so I thought it was important to position where Tribal courts are today: they are ancient iterations of Tribal sovereignty, and Tribal sovereignty originates with Tribal peoples. And so it is it is a pre-contact concept. And it is separate and apart from the American legal infrastructure and American sovereignty; Tribes are extra-constitutional. They operate outside of that whole apparatus, even though there are within the United States. And so I think understanding Tribal courts as inherently Tribal is really important. Now, that being said, the modern Tribal court, as it exists today, has very many obvious similarities to Western courts. They're in a building, there's a judge up on a bench, there's generally a prosecutors desk and a defense, desk. And all of those similarities are on purpose, and the product of at least two centuries of a lot of intentional work to get there. Federal Indian Law is a famously complex topic. And part of the way in which it is taught in many law schools is to discuss the eras of federal Indian policy, many of which are contradictory, that oscillate between genocide, and forced assimilation, and then swinging to a warm embrace of Tribes and a promotion of self government. And so I tried to trace through those contradictory eras as they're relevant to the Tribal court. But a large point I wanted to make is that, regardless of the era, there was always a sense that a Western adversarial legal framework was always the better framework, and that progress towards justice and legal legitimacy necessarily leaned towards this western adversarial model. So even in the most robust, pro-Tribal-self-government eras, we had this federal pressure on Tribes to adopt the trappings of a centralized state, and an adversarial, judicial model. We see this play out in various federal acts, including the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, just to name two. And so I wanted to position Tribes as inherent sovereigns that have been doing their own thing since time immemorial, including reflecting Indigenous values and epistemologies, but also reacting to these very explicit pressures, to now articulate those values and epistemologies via a lens of the Western adversarial model.
Peter Mason 08:18
With that background in mind, the article sets out how Tribal courts have historically both been pressured by the US government to adopt Anglo American legal styles and had their jurisdictional authority diminished by the US. Can you lay out that history for listeners, from the initial plenary power the federal government asserted over Tribes through 1953's Public Law 280?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 08:38
Sure. Public Law 280 is a really interesting example of one of the ways in which these pressures have played out. So I mentioned the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. It's a really notable moment, in part because it was a final repudiation of several decades of formally really harsh and horrific forced assimilation policies, including the boarding school era, but also the allotment era, and a general push to eradicate Tribes and absorb any surviving natives into the greater American polity. It was a real "Tribes are going to vanish one day and so we don't need to worry about it." 1934 was an abrupt shift, promoting the, "reorganization" of Tribes into these centralized powers. But as I mentioned, federal Indian policy tends to oscillate and shift with rigid shifts, and that happened in the 1950s. So post World War Two there was a sense that the federal budget needed to be trimmed, and one item that was identified as worthy of extraction was Indian Affairs. The federal government terminated, or at least ceased their recognition of, a sovereign-to-sovereign relationship with other Tribes. They did this for many, many Tribes, including many here in California. But they also enacted this law that is known simply by the number of the law: Public Law 280. This targeted five mandatory states that would essentially absorb the federal government's sovereign interaction with Tribes. It sounds, I think, more powerful than what it is because the States didn't actually gain plenary power over states. Rather, they gained the jurisdictional authority that the federal government previously had. This includes the authority to exercise concurrent criminal jurisdiction on Tribal lands, as well as civil adjudicatory. It's noteworthy there because it famously does not include civil regulatory authority, and civil state laws, like gaming or environmental regulation was not included under PL 280. So from the state's perspective, there was some, I think, lukewarm reception, in part because there were no federal dollars that attached to this transfer of jurisdiction, rather obligations, including most notably this criminal jurisdiction. So now the county sheriff has authority to go on to Tribal lands, and Indians on Tribal lands are now subject to state criminal law. The practical impact that a lot of communities experienced in the wake of P.L 280 was, even though P.L 280 was purely in relation to federal and state concurrent jurisdiction on Tribal lands, it had the practical effect of suppressing Tribal court development, such that essentially Tribal court development in P.L. 280 states tends to generally be underdeveloped in relation to non-P.L. 280 states. Thus, we fast forward to today, Tribal courts are now popping up all over Indian country, including in P.L. 280 states. But given the nature of P.L. 280, Tribes in those states are in a different position that generally means they are more reliant on engaging with their state counterparts, and often more eager to engage in collaborations in order to sort of ameliorate some of these historical suppressions.
Peter Mason 12:46
While Public Law 280 diminished Tribal courts jurisdictional authority in Indian country, you argue that the 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act, or ICRA, constrained the nature of Tribal courts' criminal justice models themselves. Can you explain the difference between these two kinds of impediments to Tribal jurisdiction as well as the impact that ICRA, and the federal court cases it begat, had on the internal and external legitimacy of Tribal courts?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 13:09
Sure, I mean, it's kind of difficult to say that this particular civil rights law was not good for Tribes, but it's emblematic of some of the tensions that are frequently framed when we have a rights based framework versus where I think a lot of Tribal sovereignty arguments tend to hang out, which is in a authority or power or sovereignty based framework. A lot of reflections on what was going on with the 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act is that it was part of the civil rights movement, but it wasn't necessarily in response to specific civil rights allegations. It was framed as such, but the the target was to minimize this extra-constitutional posture that Tribes had, and was to sort of statutorily extend the Constitution on to Tribes under the auspice of protecting individual litigants in Tribal courts. Now, I agree that litigants within Tribal courts are entitled to due process rights, as well as human rights as dictated by international law, and that Tribes that violate those rights should be accountable. But the question is how? And so I think a critique of the Indian Civil Rights Act is that it leverages federal plenary power to contradict the authority of Tribes under this argument that they are bad for individual litigants or untrustworthy or even un-legitimate and therefore need federal supervision in order to do so. This is notable in part because there wasn't really many examples of actual civil rights violations. But for argument's sake, assuming that there are, and there likely are because that's the way that the world works, how should we ensure that those litigants are protected and that Tribes are held accountable? Well, Tribal courts are real. And so one variation is to have Tribes hold themselves accountable, much like the United States holds itself accountable. But the other critique that I have of the Indian Civil Rights Act, apart from just a general philosophical one, is the way in which it implemented these due process protections, in part because the framing of the US Constitution and the ways in which civil liberties are structured presumes a centralized state that is oppressing individuals. Thereby, individuals need protections from the state. And so all civil liberties are framed as limitations on this otherwise centralized and very powerful state. Well, Tribes aren't necessarily structured this way. The notion of a centralized state is not how, traditionally, many Tribes have organized themselves. But by statutorily and unilaterally imposing the Indian civil rights act on all Tribes, well, it has necessarily resulted in Tribes building up a centralized state. It also means that just the day to day implementation of the Indian Civil Rights Act presumes not only a centralized state, but an adversarial structure in which criminal cases are being litigated. Rights like the protection against double jeopardy, the right against search and seizure, the right to counsel, all have these underlying presumptions about the fact-finding process, and a prosecutor that represents a centralized state, and a defense counselor that is specifically interested in undermining the prosecutorial proof of each criminal element. Well, suddenly, we have an adversarial system. And it's very difficult to build an alternative system, given those civil liberties. And so I wanted to trace the Indian Civil Rights Act as a moment in US law that essentially mandated Tribes: if you're going to have a Tribal court, it shall be an adversarial one that's going to incorporate the the pros of the adversarial system as envisioned by American justice, but also all of the cons, including many of the mass incarceration, mass criminalization, over-incarceration, over-criminalization concerns that currently dominate a lot of our conversations about the carceral system today.
Peter Mason 18:11
With the history of Tribal criminal authority set up, your article explains the work of modern Tribal courts. Those courts serve important roles in relation to the historical trauma of their communities, which manifests in cycles of harm that can end up in court. Can you explain how, as you put it, "the unique context of native historical trauma . . . produces specific obligations upon the justice systems, including Tribal that are serving the native population"?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 18:34
Yes. In many ways it's not unique to Tribal communities, but in some important ways it is. Tribal courts are responding to the day-to-day needs of the community, including the criminal cases that are coming before their court. But I think one of the hard things about small communities, but also one of the benefits, is it quickly becomes clear who is appearing in the court. And oftentimes, these are intergenerational litigants: kids, grandkids, great grandkids of repeat offenders, immediately displaying before the court the vestiges of historical trauma. And so extremely high rates of intimate partner and domestic violence and child abuse, coupled with significant rates of substance abuse, I think, for many of the Tribal judges that I've talked to, is a very explicit display of the traumas that communities are facing. It's also impossible to ignore the failure of incarceration to remedy these intergenerational harms such that crimes keep happening, and the next generation feels almost inevitable in following their parents' and grandparents' and great-grandparents' footsteps in duplicating these harms via crime and then the subsequent trappings of the criminal justice system. So I think for a lot of Tribes there was frustration about the inadequacy of the criminal justice system to deteriorate crime, but also the harms that the criminal justice system appear to be perpetuating by further traumatizing litigants who would serve time and then return to the communities to further inflict harm on that community. And so I think for for some Tribes it was a response to the specific litigants before them. For some Tribes, it's a response to the community that is burdening many of these harms. For many Tribes it's both. But I think there was a collective understanding that we need to try something else. What's happening, regardless of your politics or your philosophical stance, this isn't working. And from there, I think Tribes almost sort of hand-in-hand, simultaneously, sometimes with explicit partnership, sometimes seemingly in isolated pockets, turned to traditional values and sort of said, what else can we do in addition to this adversarial system that might help move the needle a little bit? And from there healing to wellness courts started to pop up and with that, an embrace of their potential.
Peter Mason 21:40
You next argue that restorative justice models enable Tribal courts to reform their criminal justice systems to better fit Tribal values and needs while also strengthening their internal legitimacy by revitalizing methods rooted in more authentic Tribal traditions. Can you explain your argument on those points?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 21:56
Yeah, so one of the main features of the Indian Civil Rights Act that I didn't mention was that in 1968, in addition to imposing this adversarial framework, there was coupled with it a major signal that the United States did not trust Tribal courts and did not like them. And this was the sentencing limitation. In 1968, Congress said Tribes, you can have your Tribal courts, but you may only incarcerate an offender for up to six months in jail. And that was for any offense, including homicide. That was later expanded to one year, which remains the current law today. In 2010, the Tribal Law and Order Act provided an enhanced sentencing provision authorizing Tribes to sentence offenders up to three years, but it was a conditional recognition. So only if Tribes satisfied certain conditions can they do so. So today, about 20 Tribes satisfy those conditions, but otherwise, all other Tribes remain under this one year lockdown. For any offense, you can only incarcerate for up to one year. So this is a massive intrusion onto Tribal inherent sovereign authority. It's also sort of offensive about the ways in which the United States thinks about Tribal courts and thinks about the extent to which Tribes can be trusted with their own authority. On the other hand, I think it is a limitation that perhaps some abolition activist might like to see sort of spread across jurisdictions: what if all courts were limited in the amount of time that they could sentence regardless of offense--could that help to reorient what we might think of as a responsive sentence in light of an offense? But regardless, no Tribe asked for this--this is the world in which they are operating, which meant that in addition to encountering the failures of the criminal justice system, even with concurrent jurisdiction and longer sentences facing offenders, there was a recognition that well, even if we could incarcerate, it's not really working that great. But also we can't. And in light of having our hands tied, it actually presented a really unique opportunity for Tribes to get innovative with restorative justice. And so in doing so, the healing to wellness court, which is the Tribal iteration of a drug court, began implementing, really in the void of not having incarceration as a tool in the toolbox. And with that, it's become sort of a default part of the docket that Tribes have been able to leverage and, it turns out, help litigants in doing so.
Peter Mason 25:04
And how are these moves to restorative justice interacting with a moment of interest convergence to, as you put it, rebuild the jurisdictional reach of Tribal courts? How does that jurisdictional reach relate to Tribal sovereignty and justice more broadly?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 25:17
Yes, so this is sort of my final argument in the piece. And so with the healing to wellness court, Tribes are giving litigants a choice that you can take the sentence, which might be one month, six months, up to a year in incarceration, or you can opt to join our healing to wellness court. Frequently the details vary across Tribes, but it's generally a year of probation-like supervision that's going to include court supervised substance abuse treatment, but also sort of an opportunity to reintegrate you back into the Tribal community, which may include some important cultural components that you may be returning to, or maybe engaging with for the first time, particularly given the historical traumas and family traumas that you might have had before this. But you're also going to get the social support that the court can offer that can include practical support, like housing and job training and access to jobs and transportation, but also more general social support, including, you know, what else does your family need? Are your kids in the home? Do you have other relatives that are dependent on you? What's going on? Let's ask questions beyond just the offense and the case number. Now, I note that Tribal jurisdiction has been limited, certainly with the imposition of the adversarial system, certainly with the sentencing limitation, but also in a spatial sense: the ways in which Tribal land has been dispossessed and the jurisdiction Tribes exercise on that land has been, over time, diminished. It means that many Tribal members also have cases in other jurisdictions, including frequently in state courts. And so I identify an interesting interest convergence in which states are facing their own budget shortfalls. They're facing their own reckoning with the shortcomings of the criminal justice system to effectively address crime, specifically substance abuse related crime, and a general interest in sort of minimizing the docket. So when Tribes approach a state that has jurisdiction over one of their Tribal members, there is an interest in engaging in a conversation that historically we have not really seen before. Jurisdiction is famously a hotly contested battle, in which states are characteristically known as the enemy of the Tribes. Jurisdiction is the commodity by which Tribes and states have been in a 250-year-plus battle. But when it comes to these healing to wellness courts, the conversation has shifted. And so we have suddenly an appetite by states to be willing to consent to the transfer of their jurisdiction over this particular offender to the Tribe for purposes of allowing this Tribal member to participate in the healing to wellness court, and then assuming a successful progress through the wellness court, have their state court case dismissed, or have the sentence sort of be approved as satisfactory, which is, I think, interesting for all sorts of reasons as a general collaboration. I also frame it as interest convergence because I don't think that states are suddenly willing to give up sovereign authority to Tribes. I don't think that there's been a sudden acknowledgement about past harms and an eagerness for reparations. Rather, this is just one of those rare moments where the state interest in saving dollars for their overstretched court systems, and a Tribe that's willing to take on the expense of these particular offenders, is aligning with the Tribal interest to reach more Tribal members. And the consequence is that Tribes are starting to exercise jurisdiction outside of the boundaries of the reservation with state consent. It is, I think, fascinating. I think it's worth noting from a sovereignty perspective, from a restorative justice perspective, from a Tribal justice perspective. I think it's a little too early to tell on what exactly the potential takeaways are for other areas. But I think that there absolutely are going to be, and it's going to be worth continuing to watch.
Peter Mason 30:37
You end the article by reviewing three case studies of Tribes regenerating Tribal jurisdiction by transferring state criminal cases to Tribal restorative justice fora. Can you explain those case studies here and tell listeners how they illustrate the arguments you make in the article?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 30:51
Yeah, I didn't want to be guilty of generalizing all Tribal courts across the country, which is, right, a continent plus of diversity of Indigenous people and histories and Tribal justice systems. So I wanted to provide some concrete examples, both to sort of put Tribal courts front and center, but also to give some tangible place-based examples of how this is working out. The first case study that I look at is the Yurok Tribe, which is the largest Tribe in the state of California, which is a P.L. 280 state. I mentioned P.L. 280 and the suppression of Tribal courts in those states as notable for its own right, but also specifically in this interest convergence analysis, because the Tribes are particularly eager to access Tribal members that find themselves in the state court system. But also the state courts, I think, see Tribes, and Tribal courts especially, as a new phenomenon. And so there's a register at which these conversations are happening that's very different than in non-P.L. 280 states. Yurok has been operating healing to wellness court for a number of years. They have done really, really incredible work. Part of their work is featured in a documentary entitled Tribal Justice, which I cannot recommend enough. But they have on-paper transfer agreements with the the two counties in which they're located, Humboldt and Del Norte County, that I think are incredible models for how Tribes and states can negotiate. It hasn't necessarily solved all of the issues that the Tribes and counties frequently have horns locked in, but they have been able to pave a path specific to the healing to wellness court. And it's really interesting to me how quickly there was consensus on the ground, that this was an effective and good idea. And that as soon as you see just one participant make their way, it suddenly becomes understood that this is a good way to do it. And so Yurok in California, incredible work. The second example is the St. Regis Mohawk in upstate New York. New York is not a P.L. 280 state, but they actually have a really similar jurisdictional structure as P.L. 280, in part because their land claims settlement sort of initiated this type of P.L. 280-like jurisdiction in 1948. So just prior to P.L. 280, likely a model for what would become P.L. 280. For that reason, they have similar limitations on the historical evolution of the Tribal court, as well as a state philosophy about what Tribal courts can and should be. Nevertheless, they have developed a healing to wellness court. And with that an understanding specifically with the town of Bombay, which is just located outside of the St. Regis Mohawk, and have been able to similarly negotiate transfer agreements with participants, which is incredible. Another noteworthy thing about the St. Regis Mohawk is not only are they engaged with the state of New York, but they're also sitting on what is now the US-Canadian border. It has meant that effectively their Tribal community has been cut in two by the US border, and so many of their Tribal members are triple citizens. They're citizens of the Tribe, they're citizens of the United States, but they're also citizens of Canada. And so that means that their Tribal police force is frequently cross deputized with Homeland Security and they have just mountains of bureaucratic messes to deal with this international border. But it also means they're incredibly sophisticated when it comes into inter-jurisdictional collaborations that makes them a very interesting case study. Finally, I look at the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe located in South Dakota. I looked at them because I wanted to look at a non-P.L. 280/P.L. 280-like jurisdiction that nevertheless was engaged in really interesting Tribal-state collaboration. And part of their motivation, even though we see this type of Tribal-state collaboration all over the place, is they face what's known as a checkerboard reservation issue. I mentioned the allotment era of the late 19th century and the early 20th century. This was an effort to privatize the reservation, which cut up many parcels of reservations into individual land tracts. And what it has meant today is that reservations will have varieties of different land tracts that pock the reservation. Normally, private owned parcels do not implicate a sovereign's jurisdiction. The state has jurisdiction over the entire territory, but not so for Tribes. If one of these parcels is owned by a non-Indian, then the Tribe loses jurisdiction, such that the nature of jurisdiction on the Sisseton Wahpeton reservation is incredibly complicated, and much of it is shared with the state. And so in light of this jurisdictional complexity, they too were able to negotiate really neat, inter-sovereign transfer agreements. For the Sisseton Wahpeton, it was all the more unique because it also included federal transfer agreements. And they were really eager, given the population of their community included members of Sisseton Wahpeton but also members of other Tribes, they were really eager to establish transfer agreements with members of all Tribes. And so they had sort of a Native American docket, which was really, really interesting. Their court unfortunately is not currently operating. But I nevertheless thought the work that they had done was so, so interesting and incredible, and a unique contrast to what St. Regis Mohawk and Yurok were doing, that they were also worthy of highlighting.
Peter Mason 37:13
Finally, what do you hope a listener or reader takes away from this episode more generally?
Professor van Schilfgaarde 37:53
Oh, I mean, one of the challenges in writing this article is I felt like I needed to tell the story of Tribal courts broadly, I needed to tell the story of restorative justice broadly, I needed to tell the story of Tribal state jurisdiction broadly. Increasingly, that's less and less true. I think that there's a really exciting body of literature growing around Tribal justice systems, around restorative justice, and around the unique inter-jurisdictional negotiations that are taking place around the country. So I am hopeful that this article will add to that body of literature. But as a takeaway, I hope that the reader, if this is your first interaction with Tribes and with Tribal justice, please consider this your invitation to learn more and engage in what is becoming a very fast-growing area of law. If this is your first interaction with restorative justice, I think that it's an invitation to appreciate how diverse this field already is, but also how much more work there is to really conceive and theorize about what restorative justice can and should be. And if anybody is curious about what it means to be engaging with Tribes as sovereigns, from a state perspective, from a federal perspective, there's so much work to do. Tribes are really making it up as they go, in part because there is no institutional framework for facilitating these types of engagements, which is wild because as long as there's been a United States, there have been Tribes. But it feels like we're only just now starting to build these pathways. And so there's a lot of work to do and I encourage any listeners, if you're interested, please come join us.
Peter Mason 40:00
Professor van Schilfgaarde, thank you so much for joining us and discussing your article.
Professor van Schilfgaarde 40:04
Thank you so much for having me and sincere gratitude to the California Law Review. It was such a pleasure working with the students and with the journal and I am so incredibly happy that this article is featured in the California Law Review. Thank you.
Peter Mason 40:22
We hope you've enjoyed this episode of the California Law Review podcast. If you would like to read Professor van Schilfgaarde's article, you can find it in Volume 112, Issue One of the California Law Review at californialawreview.org. For updates on new episodes and articles, please follow us on Instagram at californialawreview. A complete list of our socials is available on our website. Lastly, you can find a list of the editors who worked on this episode of the podcast in the show notes. See you next time.
