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Explore panel discussions on the topics and issues most relevant to transforming youth justice systems will give real-time access to experts, allow engagement with the community we are building, and elevate diverse voices.

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SETTING THE STAGE
FOR TRANSFORMATION

Kicking off the event series, “Setting the Stage” explores the role of system leaders in shifting away from punitive policies and incarceration and toward a more community-oriented vision of justice.

WEBINAR HIGHLIGHTS

Clinton Lacey talks about the need to move beyond making a better, kinder, more humane system, and instead bringing community to the table to imagine something totally different.

Mishi Faruqee speaks about why we need to start with system leaders who are willing to be disrupters, and even see themselves as organizers who lift up youth voice and youth vision.

Gladys Carrión on the different way youth are treated based on race and zip code, envisioning a system that does not include incarceration or confinement

PANELISTS

JARRELL E. DANIELS

2021 Truman Scholar, Columbia University

MODERATOR

GLADYS CARRIÓN

Co-Chair, Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice

CLINTON LACEY

President & CEO, Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement (CM3)

MISHI FARUQEE

National Field Director, Youth Initiative

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Setting the Stage for Transformation

Kicking off the event series, “Setting the Stage” explores the role of system leaders in shifting away from punitive policies and incarceration and toward a more community-oriented vision of justice.

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CENTERING YOUTH & FAMILIES

AIRED MARCH 23, 2022 @ 3PM EDT

This discussion covered both the why and the how of having the most impacted youth and families leading transformation.

PANELISTS

HERNAN CARVENTE MARTINEZ

National Youth Partnership Strategist,
Youth First Initiative

MODERATOR

XIUHTECUTLI SOTO

New Mexico Youth Justice Coalition

KATHY WRIGHT

Executive Director,
New Jersey Parents Caucus

TJ  BOHL

Administrator,
Pierce County Juvenile Court

HIGHLIGHTS

Kathy Wright, Executive Director of New Jersey Parents Caucus, talks about the need to learn about the impact of the system directly from young people who experienced it and to trust them to lead if we are to create change.

Xiuhtecutli (Xiuy) Soto of the New Mexico Youth Justice Coalition speaks about how transforming youth justice begins with having patience with, providing support for, and relating to young people like him.

TJ Bohl, Administrator at Pierce County Juvenile Court, on some of the cultural obstacles inside the system to collaborating with communities, and the need for system leaders to overcome defensiveness to building a path forward together.

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Taking on Transformation is a project of CATALYZE JUSTICE & the Columbia Justice Lab’s Youth Justice Initiatives. It is a hub for system leaders, and anyone making decisions about youth justice, who are pushing for real transformation of the youth justice system.


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