Hamline University Center for Justice and Law & Mitchell Hamline School of Law Reentry Clinic present the Barriers to Reentry Conference.
This full-day conference will discuss the barriers of reentry formerly incarcerated individuals experienced & explore possible solutions. 5.0 hours of continuing education credits are available (see below for more details).
Our keynote speaker, Reginald Dwayne Betts, transformed himself from a sixteen-year-old kid sentenced to nine years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate of Yale Law School. He has written three acclaimed collections of poetry, the recently published Felon, Bastards of the Reagan Era and Shahid Reads His Own Palm.
AGENDA:
8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration
9:00 – 10:00 am: Introduction & Overview of the problem
Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General
Dr. Jillian Peterson, Professor at Hamline University
Jon Geffen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
10:00 – 11:00 am: Impacted Individual Panel with
Moderator Kevin Reese, Voices for Racial Justice
Naomi Gaines-Young, Author
Chris O’Donnell
11:15 – 12:15 pm: Government Panel
John Choi, Ramsey County Attorney
Rep. Raymond Dehn, Minnesota House of Representatives
Paul Schnell, Minnesota Commissioner of Corrections
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch Keynote with Reginald Dwayne Betts
1:45 – 3:15 pm: Solutions panel
Moderator Emily Baxter, Executive Director of We Are All Criminals
Emily Turner, Founder of All Square
Otis Zanders, Ujamaa Place