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Ella Baker Day 2017

Ella Baker Day is in 5 states this year.
See the details on your Ella Baker Day here!


EBD in New York @ Manhattanville College
EBD in South Carolina @ Coastal Carolina University
EBD in Maryland @ Loyola University

Ella Baker Day 2017 : Manhattanville College

​West Room, Reid Castle   :   6:30 p.m.

Challenging Incarceration and Envisioning Freedom


Panelists
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Donna Hylton
Activist
speaking on Solitary Confinement
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Donna Hylton has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the country. She draws upon her experience imprisoned in a women's correctional facility for 27 years, with some of that time spent in solitary confinement. Now free on parole, she emphasizes the importance of building communities through economic, racial, and gender justice.
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​Donna is a founding member of From Life to Life, a national initiative dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex. She is especially concerned with the general tendency to devote more resources and attention to dismantling a prison system that preys upon the weak and victimized; she urges communities to think seriously about school to prison pipelines and the pathways that resulted in women, over 80% of which have been abused, being incarcerated, especially women of color. Donna is a key member of the Correctional Association’s “Violence Against Women Committee on the Inside.”  She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Social Psychology and a Masters of Arts degree in English Literature from Mercy College. Donna is also an advisory committee member for the New York Women’s Bar Association’s Parole Prep Project, a 2015 JustleadershipUSA Fellow, a key member of the Women and Justice Project that is “reimagining” the former Bayview Correctional facility into a Women’s Resource Building, and a founding member of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. Donna is also the co-author of her biography “A Little Piece of Light” to be released in the Fall of 2017. 


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Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin
Ambassador of Freedom
​speaking on Women & Incarceration 
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Mrs. Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin joined the New York City Housing Authority, in an Administrative role as the Chief of Housing and Activities. This position gives her an opportunity to work on systemic change by reunifying formerly incarcerated people with their families. This unique program has been launched by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a best practice guide and toolkit entitled: It Starts with Housing: Public Housing Agencies Are Making Second Chances Real. This publication highlights best practices and case studies that can be replicated by communities looking to build their own reentry housing programs to improve housing opportunities for returning citizens across the country.
 
Mrs. Johnson-Peterkin received her Masters degree in Social Work from Hunter College in 2004. She has received honors from the Correctional Association of New York, Citizens Against Recidivism, and the NAACP. Mrs. Johnson-Peterkin is an active alumna and Board Member of the College and Community Fellowship program where the mission is to help formerly incarcerated people achieve their goals through higher education. Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin has been described as the “Ambassador of Freedom."


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​Shirley Leyro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Borough of Manhattan Community College
speaking on Immigrant Detention Centers
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 A native New Yorker, Shirley Leyro is a critical criminologist who earned her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the Graduate Center of the City of New York and John Jay College. She holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice from John Jay College with honors in English and a minor in Deviant Behavior and Social Control. Dr. Leyro's research explores the role that the vulnerability to deportation, and the fear resulting from it, plays in disrupting the process of integration, and the possible implications of this interruption for immigrants and their communities. Dr. Leyro has received numerous awards and has been asked to present her scholarly work at various professional meetings, such as the Workshop on Critical Approaches to Race, Ethnicity, and Migration, at Columbia University, The American Society of Criminology (ASC), The Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), American Criminal Justice Association (ACJS) and the Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA). Dr. Leyro is co-editor of Outside Justice: Immigration and the Criminalizing Impact of Changing Policy and Practice as well as a contributor to the same volume. She is also a member of the Leadership Team for the Latina Researchers Network. She is the former co-managing fellow for the Center on Race, Crime and Justice at John Jay College. www.shirleyleyro.nyc  


Opening Artist
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James "SoSoon" Gantt
Hip-Hop Artist and Activist 
presenting: Nieuw New York-the history behind the history of black and brown people in the prison system
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James “SoSoon” Gantt is a New York City Hip-Hop artist, producer, scholar and educator. The moniker So Soon, an acronym for S ound O f S omething O ut O f N othing represents the heart of Hip-Hop culture which was developed by people who had no access to outlets for creative expression. James obtained his bachelors of arts in September of 2015 from Goddard College where he unveiled portions of his project SOONY (Sound Of Old New York) as part of his senior presentation. According to James, “the goal of SOONY is to bring attention to the history of New York and the positive contributions of blacks throughout its development.” SOONY is currently available on all major digital streaming sites and stores . The album will be supplemented by a book detailing the inspiration, process and meaning behind each of the eleven songs from the album, making for an innovative experience that is rarely seen in music.
James is currently the After School Program Coordinator at Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, where his primary goal is helping students obtain 21st Century skills that will directly transfer to their professional career choices after completing school.

Also featuring research posters by SOC: 2076, History of Social Action class

Manhattanville Cafeteria   :   12-2 p.m.

Private Prisons presented by
Kiana Anderson
Ashley Espinal 
Monica Keel

Juvenile Imprisonment presented by
Ian Cooper-Smith
Jasmine Colon
Gabby Contreras


Solitary Confinement presented by
Meghan Hughes
Andrew Bindela
Taylor Ridgway
Arianna Kennedy

Immigrant Detention Centers presented by
Aaron Santos
Nora Harrison
Jaylene Mejia

Political Prisoners presented by
Katherine Reilly
Daasha Jackson
Alex Aquino
Helena Rampersaud

Alternatives to Incarceration presented by
Lauren Coleman
Denise Illescas
Irene Jarama


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