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Abolition & Carceral Geographies

Incarceration damages the mental health of the imprisoned and their communities. Join Keith Wattley and Olamide Abiose in conversation about the trauma inflicted by the carceral system, trauma-informed legal services, trends in criminal legal system reforms, and ways to envision a world without the stresses and disenfranchisement created by mass incarceration.

Poison Ivy: Addressing Inequality in Higher Education

In recent years, we have seen soaring student debts, new challenges to affirmative action, and a rise in for-profit colleges. The impact of these developments on students of color and first-generation, low-income students has contributed to increasing inequality in higher education. Join Prof. Jonathan Glater, David Hinojosa, and Sbeydeh Viveros Walton as they discuss the […]

Race, Justice & Technology

Technology is not race-neutral. Over the past few years, scholars and activists have begun to surface the ways in which emerging technologies—among them predictive policing, risk assessment tools, diagnostic algorithms, and facial recognition technologies—are further entrenching systems of racialized surveillance and oppression. Join us in conversation with Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky (Formally, CodeX) and Shakeer Rahman (Stop […]