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Friday, February 5th
4:30 to 5:45 p.m. (CET) on Creative Solutions to Gender-Based Violence
Tennen B. Dalieh Tehoungue, Liberia, women’s rights advocate and former Program Specialist in the Office of the Vice President in Liberia. PhD student, Dublin City University (DCU), researching transitional justice, reconciliation and Peacebuilding. Valli Kalei Kanuha, professor at University of Washington School of Social Work and advocate of culturally based interventions for family and domestic violence with a focus on indigenous communities. Taylor Donahue, Safe Passage, a domestic violence and sexual assault crisis center. Ms. Donahue works at the Partner Abuse Intervention Services. Mimi Kim, Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach, anti-domestic violence advocate in Asian immigrant and refugee communities and advocate to transformative justice approaches to violence prevention Erika Sasson, Director of Restorative Practices at the Center for Court Innovation 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. (CET) on Immigrant Detention and Refugee Justice Sofia Kalogirou, Children's Program, The Florence Project, the only organization in Arizona that provides free legal and social services to detained men, women, and children under threat of deportation. She works with detained immigrant children. Mike Ishii, Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent direct action group founded by the survivors and descendants of Japanese internment. This group focuses on building intergenerational solidarity between immigrant communities fighting injustice, mass incarceration, and deportation. Shuting Chen, a staff attorney in the immigration unit of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to joining the court in 2020, Ms. Chen represented immigrants in private practice, advocating for them before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the federal courts. Her work varied from removal defense to family-based immigration, appeals, and affirmative applications. Indigo Golub, Resettlement Legal Officer, Refugee Legal Aid Program, St. Andrew’s Refugee Services in Cairo, Egypt. |
Saturday, February 6th
3:45 p.m. (CET) Keynote speech from Rayhan Asat on authoritarianism in China and justice for the Uighur people 4:45 to 5:55 p.m. (CET) on Anti-Authoritarian Dreams Nita May, served as an Information Officer at the British Embassy of Yangon before becoming a Producer at the BBC in London. She has recently written about her political prisoner experience and her memoir will soon be published in Myanmar (Burma). Rayhan Asat, attorney and advocate. Rayhan’s practice involves Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations, dispute resolution, human rights, and business. Zumretay Arkin, Program and Advocacy Manager at the World Uyghur Congress, an umbrella organization based in Munich, Germany Mansoureh Zakikhani, survivor with personal testimony from Iran 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. (CET) on Abolitionist Organizing and Integration of Formerly Incarcerated People Adnan Khan, Executive Director and co-founder of re:Store Justice, which he founded while incarcerated. The organization's mission is to work to end life and extreme sentences by changing the way society and the carceral system respond to violence and harm. They do this through policy changed and advocacy. Adnan also founded FirstWatch, a filmmaking project where incarcerated men tell stories about life inside prison. Ashlee George, Impact Justice, which works to prevent people from entering the prison system, improve living conditions, and supports the incarcerated people’s re-entry back into society. Daniel McCoy, Project Growth, Albany NY, the first and only organization which working with teenage offenders through classroom learning (financial literacy, self care, career and education planning), as well as working in a trade (painting, paving, bricklaying, and carpentry) in which they are paid to be able to pay back their court-ordered restitution. Elle Dowd, a community organizer at Faith and Justice Collective and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) in Chicago, which works with education and training workshops related to prison abolition. |