"El Color de la Justicia": Raising Latinx Voices for Criminal Justice Reform
September 21, 2017
- 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Public Welfare Foundation - True Reformer Building
1200 U Street, N.W.,
Washington D.C.

The Public Welfare Foundation hosts panelists who will make the case for the need for the Latinx community to engage in criminal justice reform, highlighting El Color de la Justicia – the Spanish translation of the transformative book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow; outlining data gaps in the system that undermine attention to the Latinx population; and examining the increasing intersection between immigration and the criminal justice system.

 

Panelists:

Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel, LatinoJustice

Ryan King, Senior Fellow, Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute

Sara Totonchi, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights

 

A light lunch will be served at 12:00pm. The panel discussion will begin at 12:30pm.

Space is limited. Please RSVP by no later than Friday, September 15, 2017.