Centering the Voices of Formerly and Currently Incarcerated People & Leaders in the Movement speaker series is back for second year with From Prison Cells to PhD, Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights, and Johns Hopkins Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. This is the first event of a two-part series.
Join us April 5th at noon ET for part I: Education over Incarceration.
We are in a state of mass incarceration in the United States, the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. Roughly 70 million Americans — almost one-third of the working population — have a criminal record. Around 25% of formerly incarcerated people do not have a high-school diploma or equivalent graduation certificate. Knowing how transformational education can be, Dr. Stanley Andrisse, started From Prison Cells to PhD, a non-profit organization that currently works with 100 formerly incarcerated people each year. P2P provide resources, tools, support, mentoring and internships to help them to pursue their academic goals. They also continue to push academic institutions to ‘ban the box’. Their efforts helped to remove the criminal-history section from the Common Application, which is used by most US universities.
Join the speakers and panelists as they discuss mass incarceration and what we can do moving forward. This event will be hybrid.
REGISTER
In person: https://bit.ly/3i7p1rp
Online: https://bit.ly/3tahRsX
INTRODUCTION
Stanley Andrisse, PhD, MBA, Executive Director, From Prisons Cells to PhD (P2P)
PANELISTS
- Daniel Bullman, Volunteer Management Coordinator, P2P
- Tommy Moore, Mental Health Facilitator, P2P
- Ali Ibrahim, 2021 Scholar, P2P
- William Freeman, BSPH MPH Candidate
More about the event:
- This event is open to Hopkins affiliates and the public.
- Parking at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
- Visitors must receive a visitor badge at the Monument Street entrance guards desk.
- There will be a desk next to the guard desk and someone from the event will handout badges.
- Parking is available at the Washington Street Garage (located on Monument and Washington).
