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SUMMARY:Pinkerton Youth Justice Symposium
DESCRIPTION:April 20th Pinkerton Youth Justice Symposium\n\nThrough the Eyes of a Child\nRethinking Criminal Justice Policies to Safeguard Children and Families\nWednesday\, April 20th\, 8:30am – 1:00pm\nJohn Jay College\, 2nd floor dining hall\n524 West 59th St. New York\, NY 10019 \nAgenda  •  Speakers  •  Registration \nPlease join us at John Jay College on Wednesday\, April 20\, for a youth justice symposium focusing on policies and practices that impact the lives of children and families of incarcerated individuals. This will be the second installment in our two-part series entitled See Us\, Support Us. The first session (held at John Jay on December 7\, 2015) focused on the invisibility and stigma that the children of incarcerated individuals face. (Note: The two symposia were designed to compliment each other\, but the April 20th one is open to everyone\, whether or not you attended the December 7th one.) \nBoth symposia were generously sponsored by the Pinkerton Foundation and organized by the Pinkerton Fellowship Initiative at John Jay College and The Osborne Association. \nAGENDA \nBreakfast\n \nOpening\n \nFeatured Speaker:\nDenise O’Donnell\, Bureau of Justice Assistance\n \nPanel Discussion: “Front-End Needs and Effective Responses”\nEbony Underwood (moderator)\, Creative Consultant\, Filmmaker & Advocate\nChief Brendan Cox\, Albany Police Department\nJoan Hunt\, Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood Partnership\nMiquana\, Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens \nFilming Screening: “The Visit: A Day with My Father at Sing Sing”\nDiscussion with filmmaker Kharon Benson & Raymond Rodriguez \nPanel Discussion: “Innovations and Interventions During Parental Incarceration”\nMichelle Gantt (moderator)\, MDC Brooklyn\nSylvia Harvey\, Journalist\nLewis Webb\, American Friends Service Committee\nSheryl Zenzen\, Albion Correctional Facility \nFeatured Speaker:\nAnn Adalist-Estrin\, National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated \nClosing \n** Advanced registration is required. Click here to register for this event. ** \n  \nSPEAKERS\n \n\n\n\n\nAnn Adalist-Estrin is Director of the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University\, Camden New Jersey where she also teaches in the department of Sociology\, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. Under Ann’s leadership\, NRCCFI has provided training and consultation to government and non-government agencies and community programs in 48 states including Sesame Street’s “Little Children\, Big Challenges Campaign; Connecticut’s Children of Incarcerated Parents Initiative; OJJDP Youth Violence Prevention Forum Multi Discipline Trainings on Children of Incarcerated Parents and programs in Taiwan\, The Dominican Republic\, Uruguay and Argentina. In 2013 Ms. Adalist-Estrin was honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change” for her work as an advocate for children and families of the incarcerated. Ann is also a Child and Family Therapist in Jenkintown\, PA and a trainer for the Healthy Steps for Young Children Pediatric Training Program at Zero to Three (formerly at Boston University School of Medicine.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKharon Benson is an alum of the Osborne Association’s Youth Advisory Board\, where he successfully lobbied legislators in Albany to change New York State laws affecting children with incarcerated parents. Kharon is also a member of Echoes of Incarceration\, a nonprofit organization that trains and empowers young people to tell their stories and advocate for change. Through Echoes of Incarceration\, Kharon has screened a film at the White House and has facilitated workshops in the Dominican Republic and Spain. Kharon is currently working on a short documentary about his relationship with his father\, who is serving a twenty-five-year sentence at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. In the future Kharon hopes to start his own production\, to continue raising awareness on how incarceration impacts families\, and to help other youth overcome the stigma of incarceration.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrendan J. Cox is the Chief of the Albany Police Department and has been with the department for twenty two years. He has served in numerous positions with the department including the Commanding Officer of the Children and Family Services Unit\, the Commander of Investigations and Deputy Chief in Charge of Operations. On July 22\, 2015 the Honorable Mayor Kathy M. Sheehan appointed Brendan to Chief of Police. Chief Cox oversaw the implementation of the department’s shift to community policing and has recently overseen the implementation of the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion initiative in the City of Albany. Chief Cox holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Dayton and a Master of Public Administration degree from Marist College. He sits on several agencies boards of directors and represents the department on various task forces and committees.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Michelle Gantt is the Education Supervisor at the Metropolitan Detention\, federal prison. She is also the CEO and founder of Good Morning Parents\, a parenting education company. She is dedicated to the field of education\, parenting and reentry. She utilizes her international experience as an educator\, correctional worker and parenting professional to provide parents and providers with strategies to make positive intergenerational changes. As a co-author (Raising Scholars from Infancy to Adulthood: Preparing Our Children for College and Demolishing Prison Walls.) and researcher she is committed to empowering\, educating and exciting the world about parenting. Dr. Gantt continues to establish ground breaking events to enhance the lives of families’ experiencing parental incarceration (Examples: Mother-child sleep over\, Family Reunification Committee and the Ribbon of Success Campaign).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSylvia A. Harvey (SAH) is an independent journalist and a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. She reports on the intersection of race\, gender\, class and criminal justice. Her work has appeared in The Nation\, The Feminist Wire\, Huffington Post\, Narratively\, The New York Post\, AOL’s Bedford-Stuyvesant Patch\, where she served as the gentrification columnist\, and more. Her commentary on race and the criminal justice system has been featured on WNYC\, NPR\, WBAI\, HuffPost Live and beyond. The Oakland native holds a Bachelors of Arts in sociology from Columbia University and a Master of Science in journalism from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoan E. Hunt\, MSW\, is the Project Director of the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood (GHPN) in Hudson\, NY. The GHPN\, a placed-based\, cradle to career initiative modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone\, aims to break the intergenerational cycles of poverty and to build strong\, vibrant communities. In 2011\, Joan received her MSW from Hunter College in Community Organizing\, Planning and Development and received her undergraduate degree from New York University\, double majoring in Social Work and Africana Studies. As Project Director of the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood\, Joan has successfully built partnerships with community-based organizations\, schools\, elected officials\, County agencies\, municipalities\, businesses\, youth\,families and faith-based organizations to address unmet needs in the Hudson community. Most recently\, Joan and her team launched the Greater Hudson Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents (GHICIP)\, a partner in Osborne’s NY Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents. Joan is also an Adjunct Professor at Siena College and teaches at Greene Correctional Facility through Hudson Link.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiquana is a young professional and an aspiring criminal justice student. She has an associate’s degree from Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC)\, and she plans to continue her education to better serve justice-involved youth. Her inspiration is her younger brother and the children she works closely with at the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens. This fall she plans to enroll at John Jay College\, where she will pursue a major in Law and Justice and a minor in Corrections. After completing her degree at John Jay\, Miquana hopes to work as a counselor and advocate for adolescents in the criminal justice system.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDenise E. O’Donnell was sworn in as the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) on June 6\, 2011\, after being nominated for the post by President Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate. BJA is a national leader in the development and implementation of data-driven\, research-based criminal justice policy and sound grant administration. BJA currently oversees a portfolio of over 4\,000 open grants in excess of $2 billion dollars. Prior to joining BJA\, Director O’Donnell served as the Deputy Secretary for Public Safety in New York State\, overseeing 11 homeland security and criminal justice agencies\, and as Commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services\, the state administrative agency for BJA funds. Director O’Donnell obtained a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the State University of New York at Buffalo\, and graduated summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo Law School.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Underwood is a creative consultant\, filmmaker and advocate working at the forefront of reform initiatives against mass incarceration and supporting children of incarcerated parents. Ebony‘s interest in this advocacy work is personal and pivotal. As a daughter of an incarcerated parent\, Ebony was traumatized and emotionally devastated by her father’s incarceration\, silently suffering for years. In 2013\, Ebony began to speak out and share her story through film\, television and social media advocacy. She is currently working on a documentary #HopeForFathersDay. In 2015\, she was nominated as a White House Champion of Change for Young Women Empowering Communities. She has been featured on BET News and has published Op-Ed articles for Huffington Post and VIBE magazine. Ebony is a herald voice championing for the many children and families whose voices have long been left out of the conversation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The City College of New York and is a Skadden Arps honors scholar.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLewis Webb\, Jr. serves as Healing Justice Program Coordinator the New York Office of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Since graduating from Brooklyn Law School\, Lewis has dedicated his entire professional career to criminal justice issues. Before joining AFSC\, he worked with the District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn\, NY\, and the New York City Department of Corrections. He also taught criminal justice\, jurisprudence and criminal law at various colleges and universities. At AFSC\, Lewis focuses his work on decreasing New York’s prison population by mitigating paths to incarceration and increasing opportunities for release through sentencing and parole reform. He is widely recognized as an expert on the school-to-prison pipeline\, barriers to successful reentry\, engaging communities of faith and cultivating young activists. Lewis has testified at legislative hearings in both New York and New Jersey and has spoken at various gatherings across the country.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSheryl Zenzen has 29 years with the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and has held titles including counselor\, senior counselor\, assistant deputy\, deputy superintendent of program services\, first deputy superintendent\, and superintendent. Sheryl has worked in facilities of all custody levels and was a superintendent for work release and substance abuse treatment facilities. As the superintendent of New York’s largest female facility\, Albion Correctional Facility\, she has focused on gender informed practices. Sheryl is an American Correctional Association auditor\, and she has a master’s degree in criminal justice and a bachelor’s degree in music therapy with a minor in psychology. She has achieved several awards\, including the Corrections and Youth Services Association President’s Award and the 2015 Phenomenal Woman Award from the inmate population at the facility. Sheryl has one daughter in the US Air Force and lives between Albion and the Finger Lakes.\n\n\n\n  \n** Advanced registration is required. Click here to register for this event. **
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LOCATION:John Jay College\, 2nd floor dining hall\, 524 West 59th St.\, New York\, 10019\, United States
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