The Constant Advocate Podcast · Holding Institutions Accountable
The Constant Advocate Podcast by Constant Legal Group Powerful institutions, such as churches, corporations, schools, hotel chains, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, have spent decades perfecting the art of protecting themselves. They have legal teams, communications teams, and long institutional memories for what works when something goes wrong and needs to disappear quietly. The Constant Advocate exists because those institutions should not have the last word. Hosted by the attorneys and experts of Constant Legal Group, a national plaintiffs firm representing survivors of sexual abuse, human trafficking, and victims of dangerous drugs and defective medical devices, The Constant Advocate brings together the people who know this world most deeply – the legal experts who litigate against these institutions, the policy advocates who fight to change the laws that protected them for too long, the researchers and journalists who exposed what was being hidden, the psychologists who know how deeply the wounds of the trauma cut, and the survivors who lived it and chose to speak. Every episode is a conversation about accountability. It’s a conversation about what it takes to hold a powerful institution responsible for the harm it caused. It’s about the legal tools that exist, and the ones that still need to be built. Ultimately, this podcast is about the human beings at the center of every abuse and negligence, and what justice actually looks like when it finally arrives. We talk about clergy abuse and the dioceses that covered it up. We talk about hotel chains and online platforms that profited from human trafficking. We talk about pharmaceutical corporations that concealed what they knew about dangerous drugs, and medical device manufacturers who rushed products to market without telling patients what could go wrong. We talk about the lookback window legislation that has given survivors a second chance at accountability, and the fights still ahead. We believe that informed people change things. We know that survivors who understand their legal rights are harder to silence. We have seen that institutions which know they are being watched behave differently than institutions that operate in the dark. And we are convinced that every conversation that names what happened, clearly, publicly, with specificity (yet always protecting confidentiality), makes the next one a little easier. We are The Constant Advocate. Because someone has to be. New episodes available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and wherever you listen. Free consultations available, contact us at www.constantlg.com · 855-906-2561
Episodes
Here's the summary for the episode with Kirsti:
Beyond the Myths: Building a Real Response to Human Trafficking with Kirsti Mouncey
On this episode of The Constant Advocate, co-hosts Jasmine Martirossian and Partner Dean Venizelos of Constant Legal Group welcome Kirsti Mouncey, President and CEO of the Collaborative to End Human Trafficking in Cleveland. Founded in 2007, the Collaborative leads a 75-member coalition that includes...
Episode 7: When Survivors Seek Justice – Trauma, the Legal Process, and Institutional Response with Dr. Catherine Koverola (Part 2) On this episode of The Constant Advocate, co-hosts Jasmine Martirossian and Partner Dean Venizelos welcome back Dr. Catherine Koverola, former President of the University of Pittsburgh (Bradford and Titusville) and a clinical psychologist with more than three decades of experience in trauma. Bu...
Episode 6: From Helplessness to Advocacy – Carolyn Kinkoph on Fighting Human Trafficking (Part 2) On this episode of The Constant Advocate, hosts Jasmine Martirossian and co-host Ryan Cavanaugh, co-founding partner of Constant Legal Group, welcome back Carolyn Kinkoph, co-founder of the Alliance Against Human Trafficking. In her first podcast episode, Carolyn shared the story of her daughter, Courtney, who was traffic...
Episode 5: Survivors' Rights, Revival Windows, and Protecting Children with Constant Legal Group Partner Ed Kelley On this episode of The Constant Advocate, host Jasmine Martirossian welcomes Partner Ed Kelley of Constant Legal Group, whose practice focuses on representing survivors of childhood sexual abuse and human trafficking. Ed shares why his entire career has been devoted to people harmed by others, and why he never l...
Here's the summary for the episode with Carolyn:
Episode 4: A Mother's Story Dealing with Human Trafficking, Siloed Systems, and the Fight for Accountability with Carolyn Kinkoph On this episode of The Constant Advocate, host Jasmine Martirossian speaks with Carolyn Kinkoph, a human trafficking survivor parent and co-founder of the Alliance Against Human Trafficking. Carolyn shares the story of her daughter, Courtney, who ...
Episode 3: Meet the Co-Founding Partner Ryan Cavanaugh: Why Institutional Accountability Is His Calling On this episode of The Constant Advocate, host Jasmine Martirossian sits down with Ryan Cavanaugh, co-founding partner of Constant Legal Group, who will also be joining the show as a co-host in future episodes. It's a chance to meet the trial attorney behind much of the firm's work and hear why holding institutions accountable h...
Here's the full updated summary:
Episode 2: Trauma, Moral Injury, and Institutional Accountability with Dr. Catherine Koverola (Part 1) On this episode of The Constant Advocate, co-hosts Jasmine Martirossian and Partner Dean Venizelos welcome Dr. Catherine Koverola, former President of the University of Pittsburgh (Bradford and Titusville) and a renowned clinical psychologist whose work with trauma survivors spans several decades...
What Institutional Accountability Really Means
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Constant Advocate, a podcast by Constant Legal Group. Co-hosts Jasmine Martirossian and Partner Dean Venizelos open the series by explaining institutional accountability and why it matters to anyone harmed by an organization that had the power to prevent it. Dean describes the two broad fronts where Constant Legal Group...
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