Women Incarceration Panel Discussion

Please join us for a panel discussion on Women’s Incarceration and Prison Reform Priorities on Thursday, February 17th at 5:30 PM at Slocum Auditorium. This program is the product of a College of Law collaboration with the Bond Schoeneck & King Series on Race & Justice in Central New York, the Onondaga County Bar Association, the Central New York Women’s Bar Association, and the Syracuse University Art Museum, which is currently hosting the Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana exhibition. A reception at the Art Museum and tours of the exhibition will follow the one-hour panel discussion.  For more information about the exhibition (including information about an upcoming conversation with its co-producers), you can visit the SU Museum website.

Panel participants include Professor Paula Johnson (discussing her research on the impacts of incarceration on Black women), as well as presentations from Colleen Gibbons, L’17, Center for Court Innovation; Nilieka Brown, Prison Rape Elimination Act Project Coordinator at Vera House; and current College of Law Students Molly Graham, L’22, Matthew Mayers, L’23, and Jameela Suleiman, L’23.  Professor Lauryn Gouldin will moderate the discussion.

To request An accommodation for this event, please contact Chris Ramsdell at least three days in advance by email ceramsde@syr.edu.

Attorneys interested in diversity CLE credit may register with OCBA https://www.onbar.org/events/cle-womens-incarceration-prison-reform-priorities-panel-discussion/.