April 13, 2006
2:00 - 7:30 pm with reception to follow
Milton Marks Conference Center
(Please follow the link for directions)
455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102
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REGISTRATION AND OPENING PRESENTATION
2:00 pm
Hon. Jeff Adachi, Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco
Maya Harris, ACLU of Northern California
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
3:00 - 4:15 pm
Forced Out: Racially Discriminatory Discipline and the School-to Prison Pipeline
Jim Freeman, Advancement Project, Washington D.C.
George Galvis, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Dr. Victor M. Rios, University of San Francisco Professor of Sociology
Hanithia Pierce and Omar Sandoval, Youth Against Youth Incarceration
The Racial Implications of the Katrina Disaster
Dean Bonner, Public Policy Institute of California
Patty Ferguson, Attorney, Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe, LA
Eva Paterson, Founding President of Equal Justice Society
4:30 - 5:45 pm
Amazing Disgrace: Keeping Women of Color in Prison
Sherrie Green California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Michael Harris, W. Haywood Burns Institute
Ida McCray, Families with a Future
Erin Williams, Center for Young Women's Development
Race, Religion, and the Law Post-9/11
George Bisharat, UC Hastings Professor of Law
Tram Nguyen, ColorLines Magazine
Shirin Sinnar, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
6:00 pm
Honorable Cruz Reynoso
UC Davis Law Professor and former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Patricia Williams
Columbia University Law Professor, Acclaimed Author, and Columnist for The Nation Magazine
MCLE Credit available
Pease Register at symposium@raceandpoverty.org.
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