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Solutions to Post-Incarceration Employment and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Businesses and Universities

April 22, 2016 @ 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Agenda

Friday, April 22, 2016
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

This event is by invitation only. If you are interested in being added to the invitation list, please contact[email protected].

What can businesses and universities do to promote the successful reentry of people returning home from prisons and jails? There is an increasing awareness that successful reentry improves the social, economic, and moral well-being of our society. Central to this awareness is an acknowledgment that effective education, employment, and entrepreneurial opportunities allow formerly incarcerated people both to advance themselves and our nation. However, a focus on the critical roles played by businesses and universities is often absent from discussions about solutions.

This forum—a joint effort by the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School and the Columbia University Center for Justice—is an unprecedented undertaking to address these critical issues. We will convene scholars, policy-makers, nonprofits, business leaders and people directly affected by incarceration to better understand key ways that businesses and universities can bolster successful reentry.

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8:00–8:30 a.m.	Breakfast and Registration
8:30–8:45 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction Lee C. Bollinger President, Seth Low Professor Columbia University Damon Phillips Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise Co-director, Tamer Center for Social Enterprise Columbia Business School
8:45–9:45 a.m.	Keynote Speaker Jeremy Travis President John Jay College of Criminal Justice
9:45–10:45 a.m.	Academic Insights Ifeoma Ajunwa (Moderator) Assistant Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University Greg Fairchild PhD ’02 E. Thayer Bigelow Associate Professor of Business Administration; Institute for Business in Society Academic Director Darden School of Business, University of Virginia Devah Pager Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Michael Stoll Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs José Zubizarreta Assistant Professor, Decision, Risk and Operations Columbia Business School; Affiliated Faculty with Department of Statistics Columbia University
10:45–11:15 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:15 a.m.– 12:15 p.m.	Keynote Speaker Glenn E. Martin Founder and President JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA)
12:15–1:45 p.m.	Working Lunch
1:45–2:45 p.m.	Business Insights Bill Keller (Moderator) Founding Editor-in-Chief The Marshall Project Lynn Allen Technical Evangelist Autodesk John Dillow Senior Product Manager SkillSmart Frederick Hutson Chief Executive Officer Pigeonly Kathryn Wylde President and CEO The Partnership for New York City
2:45–3:45 p.m.	Social Sector Insights Geraldine Downey (Moderator) Director, the Center for Justice Columbia University Ronald Day Associate Vice President Fortune Society Daryl Atkinson Staff Attorney Southern Coalition for Social Justice Victoria Sharpe, MD Director Spencer Cox Center for Health
3:45–4:15 p.m.	Putting the Pieces Together Pamela Valera Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University Medical Center
4:15–4:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks Geraldine Downey Director, the Center for Justice Columbia University

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Date:: April 22, 2016
Time:: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm