Laura Norton-Cruz: social worker & filmmaker on the Epstein scandal & Alaska’s age of consent

Send us Fan MailLaura Norton-Cruz is a licensed master social worker, former teacher & victim advocate, artist, and mother of two elementary-aged children. Over the past two years, she has co-produced three documentaries with filmmaker Joshua Albeza Branstetter. The first, “At Home/In Home: Rural Alaska Childcare crisis,” was based in Kotzebue and highlighted the dire lack of childcare in that community. The second, released in April 2025, was called, “ILP,” and focused on the infant learning program in the Mat-Su Valley. Her most recent, “Growing the Kenai: childcare licensing,” illuminates the obstacles to licensed childcare in Alaska. Last week she published an op-ed in the Mississippi Free Press entitled, “Raising teens in the era of the Epstein Files,” and that will frame our discussion for the second half of today’s interview. Laura supports my House Bill 101 which would raise the age of consent in Alaska from 16 to 18 helping prevent the sexual victimization of young people by predators who take advantage of our low age of consent. For a timeline of all sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump, click here.This is the Politico article I referenced about Katie Johnson, "Woman suing Trump over alleged teen rape drops suit, again."To watch Megyn Kelly’s full comments about Jeffrey Epstein, click here.