Lessons Learned: Michigan’s Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities

Online Ann Arbor, MI

The final event in the COVID-19 reflections series will feature Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the vice president and chief health equity officer at CVS Health and former chief medical executive for the State of Michigan, in conversation with Celeste Watkins-Hayes, faculty director of the Center for Racial Justice. Together, they will reflect on the two-year anniversary

In Deep Water: The Role of Municipal Debt in Environmental Crises and Racial Disparities

School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Dr. Louise Seamster is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa, and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She studies race and economic inequality, particularly in cities, and writes about racial politics and urban development, emergency financial management, debt, and the myth

Pursuing Justice in the Prosecutor’s Office: Racial and Economic Equity in a Stratified Community

School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Eli Savit serves as the elected Prosecuting Attorney for Washtenaw County. His 4-year term began on January 1st, 2021. He formerly served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was a civil-rights and public-interest attorney, and started his career as a public-school teacher. Most recently, Eli served as the City of Detroit’s senior

Fines and Fees: Punishing the Poor & Increasing Disparity

Online Ann Arbor, MI

This discussion is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy's Poverty Solutions. From the cash bail system, to fines and fees while incarcerated, to the cost of reentering society, our society functions on a punitive system of fines and fees that often catapults those already experiencing hardship into a spiraling cycle

Politics, Policy, and Poverty: Medical Debt and Other Financial Reforms

School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Representative Rashida Tlaib is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district since 2019. The district includes the western half of Detroit, along with several of its western suburbs and much of the Downriver area. A member of the Democratic Party, Tlaib represented the 6th and 12th districts

Biodiversity, Coffee Production, and Dignified Livelihoods Under a Globalized Economy

School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Dr. Ivette Perfecto is the James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice at the School for Environment And Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on biodiversity and arthropod-mediated ecosystem services in rural and urban agriculture. Her lab conducts agroecological research in Latin America and North America, focusing on the impacts

Lost Boys, Invisible Men: Policy Feedback After Marijuana Legalization

School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Dr. Nyron N. Crawford is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a faculty fellow in the Public Policy Lab (PPL) at Temple University. His research, teaching, and practice engages psychological science to explore law and policy, especially as they relate to the racial dynamics of public problems, policy design, and policy feedback at sub-national

The Color of Power: The Evolving Relationship Between Race, Skin Color and American Politics

School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Dr. Mara Cecilia Ostfeld serves as the Associate Faculty Director of Poverty Solutions, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Ford School of Public Policy and a faculty lead at the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study. She is an expert in survey research and the analysis of public opinion, with a particular focus on the relationship

Ensuring that postsecondary credentials pay off for low-income students

ECC (1840) & Lower Level Atrium

Norma Rey-Alicea is the Executive Director and co-founder of NextGen Talent (NGT). NGT’s innovative web-based tools and training services empower low-income students and their counselors to identify postsecondary programs and career paths with strong labor market payoffs. Norma has dedicated her career to the development of new educational models and career advancement solutions to close the

Envisioning a World Without Prisons

School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Join students from SW798: Anti-Oppressive and Transformative Justice Approaches to Community Change, to learn about and envision a world without prisons and police.