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When She Rises,
We All Rise
W arner Bros. TV’s “All Rise” is an American legal drama ...IT’S GOING TO Intro Employees Communities Customers Content Suppliers Awards
series starring Simone Missick as Judge Lola Carmichael, BE A BEAUTIFUL
a former idealistic prosecutor who challenges the justice system
to help more people. Amid a flawed legal system, Carmichael THING FOR
and the rest of the show’s cast of characters devote their lives PEOPLE TO SEE
to delivering justice to Los Angeles County.
THEIR POLITICAL
Missick praises the show’s efforts to spotlight women in leading AND JUDICIAL
roles that are often not reflected in society. “I think that what REPRESENTATIVES
we’re seeing now is, even just politically, women are stepping ON SCREEN IN A
up to the forefront, in our local government, in our judges, in 55
our Congress, our Senate, we’re seeing this wave of women DIFFERENT WAY
recognizing that we are 51% of the population, but we are not THAN WE’VE
when it comes to our representation. So I think that it’s going SEEN BEFORE.”
to be a beautiful thing for people to see their political and
judicial representatives on screen in a different way than AT&T D&I Annual Report 2019
we’ve seen before.”