2017

Panelist, Media Justice Salon: Abolition in the Digital Age (Webinar, 11/29/17) — details here.

Moderator and Panelist, Presidential Session: Prison Abolition, Mass Incarceration and Black Feminism: What’s the Connection?: 20th Anniversary of Critical Resistance with Dr. Angela Davis, Dr. Beth Richie, Asha Ransby Sporn at National Women’s Studies Association (Baltimore, 11/18/17)

Presenter, TRANSFORMING RAPE CULTURE: A Discussion on Community Accountability to Address Sexual Violence at Northwestern University (November 13, 2017)

Panelist, Critical Prison Studies Caucus: Abolitionist Feminisms at American Studies Association Conference (Chicago, 11/11/17)

Panelist, Police Responses to Violence, Invisible No More Conference – at Barnard College (November 4, 2017)

Panelist, Invisible No More: Resisting police violence against Black women and women at Barnard College (November 3, 2017)

Workshop Facilitator, Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors – A NYC Teach In — at NYU Law School (Survived and Punished, 10/21/17)

Moderator and Panelist, The Criminalization of Womxn in America – Black Womxn and Girls, New York University (October 12, 2017)

Panelist, “We Can Get There From Here: A National Conversation on Community Accountability,” Just Practice (Chicago IL, 10/5/17)

Panelist, “Organizing for Community Safety: Lessons Learned in Building Beyond the System,” Weaving a World without Violence: Transformative Possibilities – NY State Coalition Against Sexual Assault Conference (Albany, NY, 9/16/17)

Workshop Facilitator, “Free Them All: Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors,” Weaving a World without Violence: Transformative Possibilities – NY State Coalition Against Sexual Assault Conference (Albany, NY, 9/16/17)

Workshop Facilitator, “An (Abbreviated) Introduction to Community Accountability/Transformative Justice,” Weaving a World without Violence: Transformative Possibilities – NY State Coalition Against Sexual Assault Conference (Albany, NY, 9/15/17)

Workshop Facilitator, “Introduction to Transformative Justice and Community Accountability,” Brown University (Providence, RI, 9/13/17)

Workshop Facilitator, “Introduction to the PIC & Transformative Justice,” Make the Road NY (NYC, 7/27/17)

Keynote Speaker, “Free Them All: Ending Bail and Pre-Trial Detention as Abolitionist Praxis,” National Bail Fund Network Convening (Tarrytown, NY, 7/6/17)

Workshop Facilitator, “Community-Based Exhibitions for Movement-Building,” Allied Media Conference (Detroit, MI), 6/18/17

Workshop Facilitator, “Facilitating A Community Accountability Process,” Allied Media Conference (Detroit, MI), 6/17/17

Invited Artist/Co-Facilitator, “Transforming Justice and Our Relationships,” Writing On It All  Residency (Governor’s Island, NYC), 6/11/17 — photos are here.

Invited Speaker, “Trying to Make the Personal Political: Feminism and Consciousness-Raising,” part of the Self-Reliance School exhibition at Compound Yellow (Oak Park, IL), 5/27/17

Keynote Speaker, “No Selves to Defend: The Criminalization of Women and Trans Survivors of Sexual, Partner or State Violence” with Rachel Caidor. Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault (ICASA) 2017 Annual Statewide Sexual Assault Conference (Springfield, IL), 5/25/17

Invited Speaker, “Criminalization of Youth: School to Prison Pipeline” Surge Institute, Surge Fellowship Session 8, (Lawndale Christian Community Health Center, Chicago IL), 5/19/17

Keynote Speaker, Consciousness and Revolution II: Educating for Change in the Era of Authoritarian Populism, CUNY Graduate Center (Center for the Humanities), 5/5/17

Keynote Speaker, The Princeton Prize in Race Relations (NYC Region), 5/4/17

Invited Speaker, Prison. Abolition. Divestment. Center for Africana Studies at University of Pennsylvania, 4/19/17.

Moderator, Free Bresha: Black Girls Under Fire and How We Resist, NYU Law School, 4/17/17

Workshop Facilitator, An (Abbreviated) Introduction to Community Accountability/Transformative Justice at Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) 4th Annual Conference “Toward Abolition: Dismantling the Carceral State” at Princeton University, 4/15/17

Invited Speaker, “Courage is Contagious:” Police Torture, Reparations & Making #BlackLivesMatter in Chicago – at Hannah Arendt Center of Bard College.

Invited Speaker, Black Life and Carceral Cities , Program in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tufts University, 4/6/17

Panelist, Black Lives Still Matter: Race, Gendered Violence and the New Reality, CUNY Law School, 4/4/17

Keynote Speaker, Interfaith Banquet: Imagining Freedom with Mariame Kaba, University of Rochester, 4/1/17

Workshop Facilitator, Free Them All: Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors of Violence, Beyond the Bars Conference, Columbia University, 3/5/17

Panelist, How do we Respond to Violence? Strategies to Transcend the Punishment Paradigm, Beyond the Bars Conference, Columbia University, 3/4/17

Keynote Speaker, Free Them All: Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors of Violence, The Women’s Center at Depaul University, 3/2/17

Invited Speaker, Criminalizing Gender: An Examination of the Intersection of Youth Justice and Gender, Prisoner Reentry Institute (John Jay College), 2/23/17

Workshop Facilitator, Community Organzing 101, Beyond the Bars Fellowship, (Center for Justice at Columbia University), 1/17/17