Protect Your People: Challenging Mass Incarceration Together
About the Program
Protect Your People: Challenging Mass Incarceration Together celebrates the release of the book Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration (The New Press, August 2024). The event will bring together author and MacArthur “genius” fellow Raj Jayadev with local participatory defense organizers Heather Lewis, Executive Director of the Reuniting Family Bail Fund, and Justine “Taz” Moore, Director of Training at the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. These speakers will be in conversation with Brooklyn Law School Professor Jocelyn Simonson, author of the 2023 book Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration (The New Press). The event will focus on the innovative storytelling techniques of groups of people who have changed the outcomes of criminal cases by intervening collectively through “participatory defense.”
Sponsored by the Center for Criminal Justice.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2024 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.
About the Author
Raj Jayadev is the co-founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a community organizing, advocacy, and multimedia storytelling organization. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, and HuffPost, and on PBS, the BBC, and other media outlets across the country. The author of Protect Your People (The New Press), he is a 2018 MacArthur “genius” fellow and lives in San Jose, California, with his wife and son.
More Information
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