Speakers include:
Abdulai Bah (Al Jazeera - Fault Lines), Ulla D. Berg (Rutgers-New Brunswick), Carolina Sánchez Boe (Aarhus University, Denmark), Pina Cirillo, Rutgers Law School, Will Coley (Aquifer Media), Deirdre Conlon (University of Leeds, UK), Jenny Garcia (Detention Watch Network), Amy Gottlieb (AFSC), Nancy Hiemstra (SUNY-Stony Brook), Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale (HPRC), Sebastián León (Rutgers-New Brunswick), Elizabeth Llorente (former Bergen Record), Lauren Major (AFSC), Selvin Martinez, Lori Nessel (Seton Hall University), Kathy O'Leary (Pax Christi NJ), Sally Pillay (First Friends of NJ and NY), Mary Rizzo (History, Rutgers Newark), Katy Sastre (First Friends of NJ and NY), Whitney Strub (History, Rutgers Newark), Amy Torres (NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice), Sarah Tosh (Rutgers-Camden), Penny Venetis (Rutgers Law School), Gabriela Viera (Detention Watch Network), and Bill Westerman (New Jersey City University).
For additional information, check out: Speaker Bios - EDC Event.docx.pdf
For the full program, check out: EDC Symposium Program
WHAT: Full-day teach-in with attendance by formerly detained community members, grassroots organizers, academics, and other policy experts to outline the Elizabeth Detention Center’s social history within New Jersey and the national immigration detention system
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For more information, please contact Prof. Ulla Berg at