SSDP Meeting
SSDP will be talking over some current events that relate to drug policy, as well as forming an events committee so that SSDP can have more small-scale events on campus and spread the word about safety/harm reduction!
Food Truck Thursdays: Triple Threat Truck
Cash, credit, or debit only!
Ruth Cusick: Collaborative Lawyering for Youth Justice
Ruth is a senior staff attorney of statewide education rights for Public Counsel, the nation's largest pro bono law firm.
Joan Rater on "Transforming My Family"
The event is free; tickets are available through Eventbrite.
Rater’s goal in sharing her family’s experience – which inspired a key character in “Doubt,” the 2017 CBS legal series she and husband Tony Phelan created – is to help educate people on transgender identity as well as discuss her struggles for more transgender visibility on TV.
RebLaw Speaker Series: Colleen Flynn
Colleen Flynn is a civil rights lawyer and Executive Board member of the L.A. Chapter of the Lawyers Guild. The Executive Board of NLG-LA, elected each December by NLG-LA's membership, is responsible for fundraising and governing the finances, operations, and programmatic work of the organization.
Wendy Cheng: “Troubling Relationships to Property”
Wendy Cheng is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Scripps College. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, comparative racialization, critical geography, urban and suburban studies, and diaspora. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough; University of California Press, 2012).
MVP Study Break
Hosting is a fun, low-commitment experience, and this year MVP takes place from April 5-7 and 12-14. If you're available and interested in either session, come to the low-key info session we'll be holding in Pauley Hall on Tuesday, March 6th in the MLK Lounge at 6:30pm. Snacks will be provided!
Dr. Fania Davis: "Is the United States Ready for a Truth-Telling Process"
Fania Davis is a leading national voice on restorative justice, a quickly emerging field which invites a fundamental shift in the way we think about and do justice. She is a long-time social justice activist, Civil Rights trial attorney, restorative justice practitioner, writer, and scholar with a Ph.D. in Indigenous Knowledge. A founder and currently Director of Restorative Justice of Oakland Youth (RJOY), Fania served as counsel to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.