Please join the New York City HIV Planning Group and the Open Society Public Health Program for a conversation about sex work, policing, and health in New York.
Although the police are charged with protecting safety and upholding human rights for everyone, repressive policing has often resulted in the very opposite for sex workers. Policing practices, such as the use of condoms as evidence of prostitution and systematic entrapment, significantly impact sex workers’ health.
At this event, we will talk about the history of police reform in this area, and the challenges that sex workers in New York face as they interact with the criminal justice system.
Speakers
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John W. Meade Jr
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John W. Meade Jr. is special assistant to the assistant commissioner of the NYC Health Department’s Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control.
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Ceyenne Doroshow
Speaker
Ceyenne Doroshow is founder and director of G.L.I.T.S.
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Jenna Torres
Speaker
Jenna Torres is a community organizer for the Red Umbrella Project.
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KB White
Speaker
KB White is a paralegal with the Legal Aid Society.
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Leigh Latimer
Speaker
Leigh Latimer is head of Exploitation Intervention at the Legal Aid Society.
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Sebastian Kohn
Moderator
Sebastian Kohn is director of Sexual Health & Rights at the Open Society Public Health Program.
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Paul Kobrak
Speaker
Paul Kobrak, PhD, is director of Risk Reduction in Vulnerable Populations at the NYC Health Department’s Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control.
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