Dinner for democracy: Race and the criminal justice system | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: School event
Host: Center for Racial Justice

Dinner for democracy: Race and the criminal justice system

Presented by Turn Up Turnout and the Center for Racial Justice

Speaker

Eli Savit, Victoria Burton-Harris, Dr. Jeremiah Wade Olsen, and Alyshia Dyer

Date & time

Oct 22, 2021, 5:00-6:20 pm EDT

Location

This is a Virtual Event.
Center for Racial Justice informal logo in maize and white placed on a blue background

Turn Up Turn Out, in collaboration with the Center for Racial Justice, would like to invite you to "Dinner for Democracy." The virtual event will be a question-and-answer style panel with Eli Savit, Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney; Victoria Burton-Harris, Washtenaw County Chief Assistant; Dr. Jeremiah Wade Olsen, professor at UM-Flint; and Alyshia Dyer (MPP/MSW’22), former Washtenaw County Deputy Sheriff.

The members of this panel will contribute to our discussion following Dr. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve’s conversation on the Racial foundations of criminal justice policy with their own unique expertise on the subject. Throughout this event, students will learn about the intersection between criminal justice and racial discrimination and will walk away with knowledge of how they can impact criminal justice policy that is relevant to our University of Michigan communities.