There are a few great events coming up that may be of interest to those of you working on equity issues (all of you!)
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“The Impact of Implicit Bias: A Presentation and Discussion with State Leaders,” moderated by John Dankosky, Host, Where We Live, WNPR, Wednesday, December 9, 2015.
December 9, 2015, 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Legislative Office Building, Room 1D The Commission on Children and the Connecticut Bar Association present: Kimberly J. Norwood, Professor of Law Washington University, School of Law About the Discussion This roundtable discussion will explore how implicit biases manifest themselves and impact decisions in policymaking and implementation.
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George Chochos, celebrated former convict for armed robbery now in Yale Divinity School, will join Tamara Lanier, Criminal Justice Chair of the state NAACP, David McGuire, Policy and Legislative Director of the ACLU of Connecticut, and Rabbi Goldenberg for a discussion of racial justice, over-incarceration and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, award winning book by Professor Michelle Alexander.Free and open to the public, but you are encouraged to bring books to donate to the York Correctional Institution in Niantic. Contact the CBSRZ office for more information 860-526-8920.
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December 2, 2015
Jelani Cobb, PhD is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut Professor, an author, and a Staff Writer for the New Yorker. His book, the Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, was published in 2010 through Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Other Resources:
There was a great Where We Live last week on "Confronting Social Injustice" which featured some very talented students in the Wesleyan Prison Education Project and the Wesleyan Doula Project. Click here to listen.