Please notice all panels will be held on Zoom. Click here for the link.
Wednesday December 2nd, 2020 |
Prison Education
9:00am to 10:30am EST, 3:00pm t0 4:30pm CET Johana Bahamón, founder and executive president of the Internal Action Foundation (Fundación Acción Interna), Colombia Edwin “Zakee” Hutchison, political and community activist, graduate of Mount Tamalpais College (formerly the Prison University Project) Rebecca Ginsburg, Associate Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership and director of the Education Justice Project, a comprehensive college-in-prison program in the Chicago area Ntombizanele Gloria Vandala, Policy developer at National Department of Correctional Services, South Africa Advocacy for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Families 10:40am to 12:10pm EST, 4:40pm to 6:10 CET Danica Bravo, coordinator of Stanislaus State’s Project Rebound, providing services and support to the formerly and currently incarcerated Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College, author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration Heather Erwin, Director of University of Iowa Liberal Arts Beyond Bars and Senior Advisor to Institute for Higher Education Policy |
Thursday December 3rd, 2020 |
Justice for Asylum Seekers & Immigrants
11:00am to 12:15pm EST, 5:00pm to 6:15pm CET) Anna Marie Smith, social worker, The Florence Project, providing free legal and social services to detained men, women, and children in Arizona Robin Ragan, professor of Modern Languages (Spanish) at Knox College and translator for detained asylum seekers Lizzeth Vazquez, social worker, Service Réfugiés at Centre d'Action Social Protestant, provides refugee families access to housing and rights Solidarité des migrants wilson, provides food, information and human links to exiles on the avenue Wilson refugee camp in Saint-Denis Coalition-Building, Community Organizing, Around Violence, & Poverty 12:15pm to 1:30pm EST, 6:15pm to 7:30pm CET Yusef Shakur, community organizer, formerly at Michigan Roundtable for Diversity & Inclusion, works on rebuilding communities, gang violence and prisons. Malik Washington, an editor at the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper and representative of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. Shaily Gupta Barnes, policy director of the Kairos Center for Religion, Rights, and Social Justice and coordinator for the Poor People's Campaign and its project "Souls of Poor Folk: Auditing America for the Poor People's Campaign" Samuel Nunez, founder of Fathers & Families of San Joaquin, which provides support for support for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, trauma recovery and victims of violent crime, youth and racial justice, and health advocacy |