Date:
Thursday, October 8, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
online
Join the Ash Center for its first event of the “What Justice Looks Like” discussion series: a conversation with mothers from across the Americas who, after losing children to police and state violence, have become powerful activists fighting for justice and institutional changes to end state violence affecting Black, indigenous, and low-income youth.
Speakers:
- Dorothy Holmes, Ron Nieman Foundation and Justice for Families, Chicago, US
- Débora Maria da Silva, Mothers of May, Brazil
- Rute Fiuza, Mothers of May of the Northeast, Brazil
- Jacqueline Castillo, Mothers of False Positives of Soacha and Bogotá, Colombia
- Cristina Bautista Salvador, Mothers and Fathers of the 43 Disappeared Students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico
- Yanilda Gonzalez (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
For more information, visit https://ash.harvard.edu/event/resisting-police-violence-americas-mothers-front-lines?utm_source=Ash+Center+for+Democratic+Govern.
Register for this event: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/4616008867328/WN_DIRHhpf8TTSgZ55k5XJuvQ.
See also: Harvard