National Reentry Resource Center
A project of the CSG Justice Center
Symposium: "Think Outside the Cell: A New Day, A New Way"
http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/announcements?date%5Bmonth%5D=9&date%5Byear%5D=2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011, 7:30 a.m. -- 5:30 p.m.
The Riverside Church
West 120th Street & Riverside Drive
New York, New York
Open to the Public and Free of Charge.
To register for this event, click here.
This national symposium, sponsored by the Fortune Society's David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, the College and Community Fellowship, and the Riverside Church Prison Ministry, will focus on issues affecting the incarcerated, the formerly incarcerated, and their families.
(The full agenda for this symposium is attached as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.)
Confirmed participants include:
- Rev. Al Sharpton
- Mayor Cory Booker (Newark, NJ)
- Michelle Alexander, Ohio State University, Author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness
- Soledad O'Brien, Anchor and Special Correspondent for CNN U.S.
- Chef Jeff Henderson, Author of Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocain to Foie Gras
- Byron Pitts, Chief National Correspondent for The CBS Evening News, Contributor for 60 Minutescontributor
- Randall Robinson, Lawyer, Author, and Activist
- Rossana Rosado, Publisher of El Diario La Prensa
- Jeremy Travis, President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Terrie Williams, Author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
- Khalil Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Location: The Riverside Church, W. 120th Street & Riverside Dr., New York, New York
Date/Time: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 7:30 a.m.--5:30 p.m.
To register for this event, click here.
September 24, 2011
Submitted by Ernst Perodin
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