As a part of their Conversations on Justice series, The Justice Roundtable presents an Authors Symposium and Pavilion, cohosted by the Open Society Foundations and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. This daylong event features an array of authors providing thought-provoking examination of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Opening remarks will be presented by Harvard professor Charles Ogletree, author of The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America.
Luncheon speaker will be Joy Thomas Moore, mother of Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore.
A closing keynote address will be presented by Michelle Alexander, author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnes.
Other Speakers
Jasmine Tyler, Deputy Director, Drug Policy Alliance
Amy Bach, author, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court
Angela Davis, author, Arbitrary Justice The Power of the American Prosecutor
Robert Perkinson, author, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
Paul Rosenzweig, author, One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors and Activists Judges Threaten Your Liberty
Kara Gotsch, Director of Advocacy, Sentencing Project
Stephanie Bush-Baskette, author, Misguided Justice: The War on Drugs and the Incarceration of Black Women
Piper Kerman, author, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Tina Reynolds, author, Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
Lawrence Garrison, Radio Co-Host, Mommie Activist & Sons
R. Dwayne Betts, author, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison
Patrice Gaines, author, Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color—A Journey from Prison to Power
Paul Butle, author, Let’s Get Free A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
Eric Sterling, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
Sylvia Clute, author, Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality: A Call for a Compassionate Revolution
Marc Mauer, author, Race to Incarcerate
Alfreda Robinson, author, Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States