Combating Racial Injustice Workshop
Third Annual Workshop
SPRING 2015 / APRIL 25, 2015
RACIAL INJUSTICE:
ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Featured Guest, Ronnie Dunn
Associate Professor of Urban Studies in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University
Ronnie Dunn is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, conducts research on racial and social justice, poverty and the urban poor, and race, crime, and the criminal justice system. He is Chair of the Board of Commissioners at the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, a member of the NAACP Legal Redress Committee, and a member of Citizens for a Safe & Fair Cleveland. He is also co-author with Wornie Reed of the book, Racial Profiling: Causes and Consequences.
Featured Guest, Andy Morikawa
Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance Fellow and Race and Social Policy Research Center Associate
Andy Morikawa serves as a trustee on the boards of local, regional and international change nonprofits. He hosts a podcast, Trustees Without Borders; and serves on the organizing bodies of Community Voices, the Dialogue on Race, and Conversations NRV.
Featured Speaker, Wornie Reed
Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies and
Director of the Race and Social Policy Research Center at Virginia Tech
Professor Reed has taught courses, conducted research, and published numerous articles and several books on medical care, health and illness, urban communities, and criminal and juvenile justice. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Montgomery County Dialogue on Race.
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