Past Events

On Saturday May 3rd, 2014 from 10:30am to 3:00pm – the Youth Advisory Board (our semester-long program for youth ages 14 to 18 who have an incarcerated parent) will host their second annual RIDE FOR RIGHTS bike-a-thon to raise awareness about the rights and experiences of children with incarcerated parents. Details are attached. Please come on out with your bike and ride around Prospect Park for a good cause and lots of fun! Please also share this event and encourage people…

Foundry Dialogues continue in May with four events (May 12, 14, 19 & 21)  looking at our criminal legal system towards building new and authentic safety for us all.  Dynamic visiting practitioners and analysts will join local organizers to discuss the “new Jim Crow” of mass incarceration, the policing of gender, transformative justice practice and how social justice movements get built. This is a rare gathering of people who walk the talk of radical imagining. Don’t miss this! More information on…

Please join the Mailman School’s Incarceration and Public Health Initiative for Injustice and Mass Incarceration: A Threat to Public Health onJune 3. This talk will be given by Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer who is known nationally for challenging bias against the poor and people of color. At the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson leads a team of litigators who advocate on behalf of people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. Injustice and Mass…

Throughout history, legal and de facto forms of segregation have restricted the ability of black communities to fully access housing, education, and banking. A long-fought battle before the civil rights movement, the complexity of today’s patterns of segregation takes many forms within public policy, income, and racial discrimination. This provocative conversation will explore new ideas, history, and the contemporary construction of segregation. Join panelists Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic), Patrick Sharkey (New York University), and Richard Rothstein (Economic Policy Institute) and moderator Farai…

Presented by the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School 2014 Nathan Levin Lecture on Public Policy The War on Drugs has created a powerful surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. High-tech techniques criminalize entire blocks and transform informal community networks into liabilities for local residents as police use family relationships to demand information, pursue suspects and threaten incarceration. The presumption of criminality takes a relentless toll. Our 2014 Nathan Levin Lecturer, sociologist Alice Goffman, spent six…

The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions & NeON Arts* present… WHAT IT IZ! The Spoken Wordical ~ A Dramatic Remix Reading ~ INSPIRED BY THE 1975 CLASSIC THE WIZ! Followed by a Talkback with the Cast! Produced by Bryonn Bain and the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions Featuring Cast: Orie Cepeda, Alex Davis, Tuwana Sashakay, Tanisha Madera, Tyreese Malloy, Divine Pryor, K. Bain, Jason Dorsey Musicians: Christopher Celiz and Zachary Levine-Caleb, Carmen Noelia Video DJ: Emre Emirgil Stage…

P2PH Academy Seminar on Drug Policy The Global Drug Control System: Has The US Government Moved From Being Architect of the Problem, to Being Part of the Solution? Speaker: Mike Trace, Chairman of the International Drug Policy Consortium, former United Kingdom Drug Czar. In this presentation, he will describe how the US government has been the main archi- tect and cheerleader for the international system of prohibition, and in particular two of its main articles of faith – aggressive repression of…