Whistleblower of the Week

Jun 19 2024 70 ep. 49 mins 34
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Join FBI whistleblower Jane Turner every other week as she talks with a whistleblower about their life experiences, what led them to blow the whistle, and their lives after their courageous and brave actions. In each episode, Turner will discuss in depth each individual’s choice to become a whistleblower in their respective fields and the fallout that occurred. Questions? Reach Whistleblower Network News at [email protected].

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Billie Winner-Davis & Victoria Turner

Jun 19 2024 63 mins  
In this special episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host JaneTurner speaks with Billie Winner-Davis and Victoria Turner about the traumaexperienced by family members of whistleblowers who face retaliation.Billie is the mother of Reality Winner, the intelligence community whistleblowerimprisoned for leaking a NSA report on the Russian government’s attempts tointerfer

Reality Winner

Jun 13 2024 76 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks withformer intelligence contractor Reality Winner. Motivated to act on a belief that the American public was not getting the full truth.Winner leaked a top-secret NSA report on the Russian government’s attempts to hack a Florida-based voting software supplier ahead of the 2016 election to the news m

Aris Danikas

Jun 06 2024 54 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turnerspeaks with Aris Danikas, a whistleblower and the founder and CEO of Liberty ofSpeech.Turner and Danikas discuss his journey from whistleblower, he blew the whistleon human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings by police in South Africa, towhistleblower advocate.They also speak about the upcoming conferenc

Johannah Phenya

May 22 2024 41 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Johannah Phenya, the owner of a South African IT company who alongside her husband blew the whistle on alleged corruption and fraud in the awarding of government contracts.Following their whistleblowing, Johannah’s husband, Marumo Phenya, was assassinated. Johannah was honored for her bravery b

SPECIAL ALERT: Stephen Kohn on the New DOJ Whistleblower Program

May 07 2024 27 mins  
In this special episode of of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn, founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of National Whistleblower Center, about the Department of Justice’s ongoing development of a new whistleblower award program.“We are on the verge of a major whis

Mzukisi Makatse

Apr 25 2024 47 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turnerspeaks with Mzukisi Makatse, who blew the whistle on a corrupt grant awardedby the South African Lottery Commission.Makatse was honored for his bravery by Blueprint for Free Speech in their 2023Whistleblowing Awards. He and Jane discuss his whistleblowing journey,including the immense retaliation he faced, as

María de los Ángeles Estrada

Mar 27 2024 44 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, Jane speaks with María de los Ángeles Estrada, a lawyer in Mexico specializing in transparency and anti-corruption. She serves as the Executive Director of the Transparency and Anti-Corruption Initiative of the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tec de Monterrey, one of the most important and renowned un

Stephen Kohn on Landmark Supreme Court Whistleblower Case

Mar 20 2024 44 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn, founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of National Whistleblower Center, about the recent landmark ruling in the Supreme Court whistleblower case Murray v. UBS Securities. Kohn gives historical perspective on the Sa

Nikhil Dey

Feb 28 2024 50 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner talks to Nikhil Dey, the co-founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), a workers and peasant empowerment organization based in Rajasthan, India. MKSS has led transparency and anti-corruption movements across India, including for the Right to Information, minimum wage, protection for gig workers, and m

Dr. Jeremiah Johnson

Feb 21 2024 55 mins  
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner talks to Dr. Jeremiah P. Johnson, founder and director of the Lamplighter Project. Dr. Johnson recognized a need to support law enforcement whistleblowers who reported criminal misconduct in 2016 from experience in his own police department. Jeremiah has served in various sworn and civilian roles across the