This session explores creative ideas and bold initiatives to improve the lives of those who've been incarcerated and their families, and to move this nation away from the failed policies that have made it the world's leading jailer.
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
Joe Robinson, author of Think Outside the Cell, leader of Second Look Policy Think Tank at Sullivan Correctional Facility, New York State
Tom Burrell, author of Brainwashed, expert on the image of African-Americans
Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Eddie Ellis, executive director, Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions
THINK OUTSIDE THE CELL: A NEW DAY, A NEW WAY : A National Symposium And CALL TO ACTION On Issues Affecting The Incarcerated, The Formerly Incarcerated And Their Families
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS: Honorable Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, NJ; Honorable Scott M. Stringer, Manhattan Borough President; Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder, National Action Network; Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow; CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien; "Chef Jeff" Henderson; Randall Robinson; CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts; Terrie Williams, youth advocate and author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting; Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; El Diario La Prensa publisher Rossana Rosado; Marc Lamont Hill, Black Enterprise TV; Alan Rosenthal, Center for Community Alternatives; Julio Medina, Exodus Transitional Community, Inc.
The symposium is funded by the Ford Foundation and presented in full partnership with the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, the Fortune Society's David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, the College and Community Fellowship and the Riverside Church Prison Ministry.
The event is FREE & open to the public, but you do need to RSVP formally/separately here:
https://chartingmaps.wufoo.com/forms/symposium-registration/
You can find out more about the event here:
http://www.thinkoutsidethecell.org/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=266306573390685
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