Presentation: Race and Motherhood
October 22, 2015-State of Black Education-Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce
November 5, 2015-Vision Summit-Omni SouthPark
The Black and White of Race and Reentry
Laura Sovine and I have been examining issues of race and the criminal justice system both professionally and personally for more than a decade. Re-entry starts at entry. Therefore to understand how to intervene to improve outcomes for re-entry, one must understand the complex factors contributing to mass incarceration in our nation. Through formal presentation, group activities, and a light hearted and informal conversation, the session will explore the nature of race, how we understand race, historical factors of race and the criminal justice system. The presentation will also seek to assist participants in becoming more comfortable talking about these issues, and provide them with tools with which to intervene at all levels of the system.
October 1, 2015-Austin Independent School District
AISD Staff Professional Development-Book Study
Revealing the Invisible: Confronting Passive Racism in Teacher Education (Marx, 2006)
February 10-The School to Prison Pipeline: A Community in Action/Blackademics TV
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November 3rd-December 15th, The Educator’s Institute
This institute is a a six week professional development that provides educators with the opportunity to explore culture in a meaningful way by grappling with topics such as educational histories, funds of knowledge, anti-racism, culturally relevant pedagogy and school discipline.
December 4, 2014-Washington, DC
On December 4th I will present at the American Anthropological Association. The presentation is titled:
The Impact of Educational Policy: Brown V. Board, Zero Tolerance and the School to Prison Pipeline
Keynote: Social Injustice Among African American Boys
November 16, 2014
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Founders Day Banquet
Renaissance Hotel, Austin, TX
November 5th, 2014 – Doubletree Hotel (Austin, TX)
On Wednesday November 5, 2014 my biological father (Pastor Donald Bright, LPC) and I will be presenting at the 2nd Annual Vision Summit: Looking Toward the Future of Reentry. Our presentation will focus on our personal journey from incarceration to forgiveness to research and practice.
Session Title: A Family Affair: Finding Solutions to Family and Community Reentry
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October 9-11, 2014 – DoubleTree Hotel (Pittsburgh, PA)
From October 9-11, 2014 I will be presenting a paper at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS) conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
The paper is entitled “Catching In: Reintegration Narratives of Formerly Incarcerated African American Males”. It will discuss the varying factors of reintegration such as arrested development, prison education vs. community education and daily life transitions.