On Wednesday August 5th, 2015, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and Families for Justice as Healing will be sponsoring the FREE HER Justice Advocacy Conference at Harvard Law School. The conference will join together formerly incarcerated women and allies from across the country to share strategies for criminal justice restructuring, from the voices of those most impacted.
Panelists to-date include:
Vivian Nixon – College and Community Fellowship, New York
Grace Bauer – Justice for Families, Louisiana
Beatrice Codianni – ReEntry Central, Connecticut
Susan Rosenberg – Teacher, Writer, Former Political Prisoner -New York
Diana Williamson – Families for Justice as Healing – Atlanta
Diana Zuniga – Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) – California
Susan Sered – Suffolk University – Massachusetts
Deon Haywood – Women With a Vision – Louisiana
Vikki Law – Freelance Journalist & Author of Resistance Behind Bars (winner of 2009 PASS Award) – New York
Barbara Fair –My Brother’s Keeper – Connecticut
Gale Muhammad – Women Who Never Give Up – New Jersey
Lois Ahrens – The Real Cost of Prisons – Massachusetts
Starlene Patterson – Author, Families for Justice as Healing – New York
Phyllis Hardy – Families for Justice as Healing – North Carolina
Delores Alleyne – Save Our Sons – California
Barbara Dougan – Families Against Mandatory Minimums – Massachusetts
Jean Trounstine – Author/Editor, activist and professor – Massachusetts
Jesselyn McCurdy – A.C.L.U. – Washington, D.C.
Nkechi Taifa – Open Society Foundations – Washington, D.C.
Gina Clayton – The Essie Justice Group – California
Pat Allard – Justice Strategies- Canada and New York
Karen Garrison – Mommie Activist- Washington, D.C.
Dorothy Johnson-Speight – Mothers in Charge – Pennsylvania
Lilli Branch Kennedy – Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged- Virginia
Christina Voight – Open Society Institute – New York
Deon Haywood – Women With a Vision – Louisiana
Echoes of Incarceration
Diane Wilkerson – Massachusetts
Dorothy Gaines – Alabama