Economic Architecture The Podcast

In this week’s episode, Noella Sudbury discusses her structural innovation which clears criminal records and opens up real potential for job seekers in specific states to change their future. Her app, Rasa Legal, consolidates state law data and provides access to lawyers—helping criminal record holders understand their rights and their potential to clear a history that too often gets in the way of their ability to secure employment.

Host Stuart Yasgur and Noella Sudbury discuss how criminal records can be removed from public view, the legal structures that create financial barriers to record clearing, and how record expungement can help prevent the cyclical loop that often bars criminal record holders from secure employment—unfortunately leading many to recidivism.

By helping to carry forward the work of Sharon Dietrich’s Clean Slate laws, as we discussed in Episode 17, Noella Sudbury’s app, Rasa Legal, is leveraging a different kind of technology to automate this expungement process. This helps criminal record holders gain access to their own record, understand their own eligibility to expunge it, and get connected to lawyers to help them through the clearing process.

Learn more about Rasa Legal: https://rasa-legal.com/
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