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SUMMARY:Education in Prison: A Discussion on the Community & Intergenerational Benefits
DESCRIPTION:Research shows that individuals who participate in any type of educational program while in prison are 43 percent less likely to return to prison. In addition to reducing recidivism\, education can improve outcomes from one generation to the next. \nJoin the Southern Center for Human Rights on March 5\, 2021\, at 3 pm EST as we welcome a panel of individuals who will discuss their successes and challenges with obtaining education while incarcerated as well as once released\, the benefits prison education has on the community\, Pell Grant updates\, and upcoming free educational opportunities for those who are justice-involved and formerly incarcerated. \nIf you have any questions about the event or questions about prison in education (or post-release) that you would like answered by the panel\, please email Waleisah Wilson at wwilson@archive.schr.org BEFORE the start of the event. \n  \nModerated By \nWaleisah Wilson\nClient Services Advocate\, Southern Center for Human Rights \n \nWaleisah Wilson is the Southern Center for Human Rights’ (SCHR) Client Services Advocate\, where she focuses on working with individuals whom SCHR has helped get released from prison or otherwise represented in SCHR’s impact or capital litigation. She ensures that SCHR’s clients have access to a robust support system that will help them flourish in their homecoming by connecting them with community resources and providing skill-building opportunities that will allow them to have a better quality of life and be successful and self-sufficient during their reentry. Her shared experience with the criminal justice system and the challenges to reentry\, allow her to have a unique and valuable perspective that allows her to better assist SCHR clients with contributing to their families and their communities\, reduce future interactions with the criminal legal system\, and increase opportunities for them to live full and joyous lives. \nBefore becoming SCHR’s Client Services Advocate\, Waleisah was a criminal justice reform activist and organizer in the Columbus\, GA area and the Founder and Executive Director of NewLife-Second Chance Outreach\, Inc.\, a nonprofit organization that has assisted hundreds of directly impacted individuals with securing employment\, locating housing\, receiving job readiness training and gaining other necessary resources needed in their reentry. \nWaleisah received a Master’s degree in Human Services from Capella University and a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Walden University. She has received several awards and accolades for her work in reentry and has participated in several state and national leadership fellowships\, including the 2020 Soros Justice Fellowship. \n  \nPanelists \nPage Dukes\nCommunications Associate\, Southern Center for Human Rights \n \nPage Dukes joined the Southern Center for Human Rights as a communications intern in 2019 while finishing her dual BA in mass communications and philosophy and religion at Piedmont College. In May 2020\, Page joined the SCHR staff as the Communications Associate. Page is a native ATLien. \nDuring her time at Piedmont College\, Page served as a Social Justice Fellow and received the James M. Cox\, Jr. award for community journalism. She was released from prison in May 2017 after serving a mandatory ten-year sentence. She is a founding member of the Athens Reentry Collaborative\, a support group for released people\, Mourning Our Losses\, and Georgia Freedom Letters. Page interned at The Marshall Project in 2018\, where she wrote and edited stories for the “Life Inside” series. She is active in raising awareness about the effects of incarceration\, the need for restoration of rights and accurate media representation for incarcerated people\, and amplifying the voices of incarcerated women. \n  \nPatrick Rodriguez\nExecutive Director\, Georgia Coalition for Higher Education \n \nPatrick Rodriguez is the current Executive Director of The Georgia Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (GCHEP) and serves as the Director of Special Projects for Common Good Atlanta. As a formerly incarcerated leader\, Patrick has been working in the prison education space since his release from prison in 2019. He came out of prison with one focus and that was to serve. He wants to serve those who have been through the same experience as him. Whether that is through advocating for them on a legislative level or giving someone a ride to work\, Patrick does it all. When we asked Patrick if he had something he would like to share for this bio\, this is what he had to say\, “I am so grateful for all of the opportunities that have come my way. I could not have done it without a strong community of people around me.  I have one focus and that is to help those who have been through the prison system. If I can make it a little easier for my brothers and sisters to transition into society or get accepted into college\, all of this has been worth it. They say that if you judge a nation by its prison systems that will tell you where the work needs to be done\, as a nation\, we have a lot of work to do. Every day I roll my sleeves up and put my boots on and I hope you too can join me in this fight!” Patrick is currently studying at Kennesaw State University and is majoring in Organizational and Professional Communication and plans on attending law school in 2022. \n  \nKareemah Hanifa\nCommunity Organizer\, Inner-City Muslim Action Network \n \nKareemah Hanifa is a Muslim native of Charleston\, South Carolina though she has spent the majority of her life in the State of Georgia. Kareemah comes from a large blended family of 16 siblings. She recently received her Associates in Positive Human Development and Social Change and is currently working on her Bachelors in Psychology at Life University in Marietta\, Georgia. She is a licensed Master Cosmetologist and a youth advocate. \nKareemah is also a Criminal Justice Reform advocate\, Reentry Consultant\, and a Toast Masters Gavel Club member. In 2010\, she was invited to speak at the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice forums. She has since been invited to speak at her Candler School of Theology Certificate Graduation\, Faith and Character Graduations\, and the Ending Mass Incarceration 3-day workshop at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. She spoke in Augusta Georgia at the Georgia Department of Corrections Education Forum. Her most prestigious speaking engagement was at TedxDecatur at Emory University in 2019 where she spoke on the issues impacting at-risk female youth and girls and women in prison. \nKareemah is a Conflict Resolution leader and a Peace Studies Negotiator. She has completed and taught C.I.T. training (Compassion and Integrity Training) at Arrendale State Prison. She is a Life Skills Coach and taught her framework JOAT at Purpose Built Schools Atlanta during Spring Semester 2020. On September 7\, 2020\, she began co-hosting ‘Returning Citizens for Returning Citizens’\, a nation-wide podcast addressing issues involving re-entry in America. Kareemah is currently employed as Community Organizer for IMAN Atlanta\, The Inner-City Muslim Action Network\, where she is leading the campaign\, “No Taxation Without Representation”\, a campaign where directly impacted people are actively resolved to change the Georgia law that prohibits citizens who are on parole or probation from exercising their right to vote. \n  \nEthan Ybabes\nRe-Entry and Advocacy Leader\, Chillon Project \n \nEthan Ybabes is a student at Life University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in psychology. He began this endeavor as part of the first cohort of the Chillon Project while incarcerated at Lee Arrendale State Prison. After he was released\, he continued working with the Chillon Project as a Re-entry and Advocacy Leader. He is passionate about issues surrounding mass incarceration\, restoration of rights for the formerly incarcerated\, access to higher education for the formerly incarcerated\, and re-entry support. Once he receives his Bachelor’s\, he plans to pursue a Master’s Degree in Psychology. \n  \nGloria Parks\nStudent\, Georgia State University \n \nGloria Parks is a student at Georgia State University majoring in Computer Science. While incarcerated\, Gloria became attended college and became certified in Theological Studies. Since her release\, she has faced several challenges in achieving her academic goals as the norms of living everyday life are drastically different for a formerly incarcerated woman of color as opposed to others. Even while incarcerated\, Gloria has had a striking thirst for higher learning and education which she considers to be her supreme antidote for a sense of understanding her society\, her family & friends\, and the vicious cycle of recidivism\, lack of stable housing\, and educational opportunities for others with her shared experiences.
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SUMMARY:The South Got Something to Say: Black Women Building Power in Georgia
DESCRIPTION:Join the Southern Center for Human Rights as we celebrate the work and victories of Black women shifting culture and building power in Georgia and throughout the South. \nInspired by André 3000’s bold proclamation at the 1995 Source Awards\, this event will highlight the unique\, strategic\, and liberatory ways the South mobilizes to challenge regressive policy\, mass incarceration\, voter disenfranchisement\, and so much more. \n  \nMODERATED BY \n \nTiffany Williams Roberts\nCommunity Engagement & Movement Building Counsel\nSouthern Center for Human Rights \nTiffany Williams Roberts joined SCHR in April 2018 as the Community Engagement & Movement Building Counsel. Tiffany Roberts is a civil rights and criminal defense attorney in Atlanta. She has practiced criminal defense since 2008\, first as a public defender with the Atlanta Judicial Circuit Public Defender and later as a solo practitioner beginning in 2011. As a public defender\, Tiffany represented hundreds of indigent clients facing felony prosecution and graduated from the Gideon’s Promise trial advocacy training program. She expanded her private practice to include civil rights litigation for victims of police abuse. \nRead full bio. \n  \nPANELISTS \n \nDr. Yolande Tomlinson\nCo-Director / Director of Education and Applied Intersectionality\nOrganization for Human Rights and Democracy \nDr. Yolande M. S. Tomlinson is a radical Black queer feminist\, who brings a lifetime of experience\, passion and learning to her role as the Director of Education and Applied Intersectionality for the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy (OHRD). She is a native Jamaican\, an avid gardener\, and a lover of people and all species of flowering plants\, including dandelions. \nIn partnership with its executive board and leadership team\, Yolande leads OHRD in visioning\, developing\, and executing educational programs that integrate lived experiences\, intersectional knowledge\, and sound learning and organizing principles to empower members\, supporters\, and partners in the realization of a better\, more just world. In this role she helps to develop and implement ORHD’s national and international strategy. As a co-founder of OHRD\, Yolande’s other responsibilities include collaborating with OHRD’s leadership team to manage and support the harmonious and smooth functioning of the organization. \nRead full bio. \n  \n \nNsé Ufot\nChief Executive Officer\nNew Georgia Project and New Georgia Project Action Fund \nNsé Ufot is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Georgia Project (NGP) and its affiliate\, New Georgia Project Action Fund (NGP AF).  Nsé leads both organizations with a data-informed approach and a commitment to developing tools that leverage technology with the goal of making it easier for every voter to engage in every election.  Nsé and her team are also developing Georgia’s home-grown talent by training and organizing local activists across the state.  She has dedicated her life and career to working on civil\, human and workers’ rights issues and leads two organizations whose complementary aim is to strengthen Georgia’s democracy.  Under Nsé’s leadership\, NGP has registered over 500K eligible Georgians to vote and has no plans of slowing down. \n  \n \nMarilynn B. Winn\nCo-Founder / Executive Director\nWomen on the Rise \nMarilynn Winn is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Women on the Rise. She has been organizing for abolitionist reforms to the criminal legal system in Georgia for the past decade\, soon after her own release from prison. Ms. Winn has gained national attention for her work to ban the box on employment applications in Georgia and her vision to close the Atlanta City Detention Center\, replacing it with a Center for Wellness and Freedom. \nShe received the first Lilly Ledbetter Award from 9to5 Georgia in 2013\, was recognized by President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Roselynn Carter for her work to end employment discrimination in 2014\, received the Inspire Award from First Step Staffing\, and received the Champion for Change Award in 2019. She was a JustLeadership USA 2016 Fellow and is a current fellow with the Center for Civic Innovation. \nRead full bio.
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