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May 2015
NHSJ Symposium on Arts, Health and Narrative: Spoken Word as Artistry and Activism
Event: 7 – 9 pm FREE and open to all, must RSVP to attend Dinner: 6-7 pm (Optional, $25, payable only by check) The Narrative, Health and Social Justice Seminar is excited to announce its 2nd annual Symposium on Arts, Health and Narrative. This year we will bring artistic voices together with members of the healthcare and health humanities communities to engage in dialogue about how art and activism can work collaboratively with narrative, health and social justice. During our session we…
Find out more »Dr. Becky Pettit on “Civil Rights Legislation and Legalized Exclusion: Mass Incarceration and the Masking of Inequality”
Civil rights legislation in the 1960s promised greater racial equality in a variety of domains including education, economic opportunity, and voting. Yet those same laws were coupled with exclusions from surveys used to gauge their effects, thereby affecting both statistical portraits of inequality and our understanding of the impact of civil rights legislation. This project considers how growth in the American criminal justice system affects assessments of equal opportunity more than half a century after the enactment of historic legislation…
Find out more »Education on Both Sides of the Wall
May 21st – Education on Both Sides of the Wall The 2014-15 PRI Occasional Series on Reentry Research will highlight issues raised by the National Academy of Sciences’ groundbreaking report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Causes and Consequences. Please join us on Thursday, May 21st, 2015, for the seventh and final installment in this series, Education on Both Sides of the Wall. This special half-day event, co-sponsored by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, will include two panels of…
Find out more »New York Reentry Roundtable: Struggles of Reentry
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2015 1:00 – 3:00PM Guest Speakers: Barry Campbell Special Assistant to President and CEO Fortune Society Topic: Struggles of Reentry Hosted by The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) 105 East 22nd Street at the corner of Park Avenue South Conference Room 4A Take the 6 or N/R trains to 23rd Street Kindly RSVP to Gabriel Torres-Rivera at [email protected] or call 212.614.5306t
Find out more »June 2015
Free City Pop Up Schools
Saturday June 20th, 2015 Harlem Location: Marcus Garvey Park 18 Mt Morris Park W, New York, NY Brooklyn Location: Herbert Von King Park 670 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, New York Check out the facebook event page for detailed information about the workshop schedules in each location https://www.facebook.com/events/610625445735416/ The cost of college education continues to steadily rise. Low income, undocumented and justice involved community members are shut out of privilege academic spaces of higher learning due to systemic barriers to education. The…
Find out more »October 2015
Film Screening: Natural Life, a film by Tirtza Even
Film Screening of Natural Life, a film by Tirtza Even Tuesday, October 13th, 2015, 6:30PM Barnard College, Columbia University Julius Held Lecture Hall, Third Floor, Barnard Hall Natural Life (naturallifefilm.org) is a documentary highlighting the stories of five individuals who are sentenced to life without parole for crimes they committed as a youth. The film portrays the ripple effect that the life without parole sentence has on the incarcerated youth and their families, the victim and the community at large. This…
Find out more »Talk: “National Policy and the Roots of Mass Incarceration”, Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Elizabeth Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton completed her doctoral work at Columbia University in 2012, dring which time she served as the Managing Editor of the late Manning Marable’s Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. A Ford Foundation Fellow and a former postdoctoral scholar in the University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Hinton’s book, From the War on Poverty to…
Find out more »November 2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
FILM | SCREENING AND CONVERSATION A screening of the acclaimed documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution will be followed by a conversation with director Stanley Nelson, producer Laurens Grant, Journalism professor June Cross, and Film professor and Panther Baby author Jamal Joseph, who is also featured in the film. RSVP.
Find out more »The Changing Climate of Criminal Justice Reform
Marc Mauer at Baruch College School of Public Affairs: “The Changing Climate of Criminal Justice Reform” Please join Marc Mauer, the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project, at Baruch College for the Fall 2015 Ackerman Lecture, a lecture series on equality and justice hosted by the School of Public Affairs. The lecture will examine how and why the criminal justice reform movement has evolved in recent years, and what changes in policy and practice are still necessary if we…
Find out more »The Justice Forum: From Juvenile Justice to Young Adult Justice: An Emerging Framework for Policy and Practice
Monday, November 30, 2015 6:30pm Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027 Please join us for a discussion about a new framework, practice and programs, and related research about young adults in the justice system. Vincent Schiraldi, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard University Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, Chief Assistant District Attorney, New York County Dsitrict Attorney’s Office Richard Roderick, Programs Coordinator, Justice-in-Education Initiative, Columbia University, subject of…
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