08/31/2016
Our September Monthly Call (on Sept 13th at 6pm pacific, 9pm eastern) will feature special guest Baz Dreisinger!
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Dr. Baz Dreisinger is: professor, journalist, justice worker, film and radio producer, cultural critic and prison-rights activist.
Based in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, she is the founder and Academic Director of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which offers college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated men throughout New York State, and broadly works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. Her book "Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World" (February, 2016) is a first-person odyssey through prisons in nine countries, beginning in Africa and concluding in Europe. It offers a poignant window into a world most can never see, and offers a radical rethinking of one of America's most devastating exports and national experiments: the modern prison system.
As a journalist and critic, Dr. Dreisinger writes about Caribbean culture, race-related issues, travel, music and pop culture for such outlets as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and ForbesLife, and produces on-air segments about music and global culture for National Public Radio (NPR). Together with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Peter Spirer, Professor Dreisinger produced and wrote the documentaries "Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop," which investigates the New York Police Department's monitoring of the hip-hop industry, and "Rhyme & Punishment," about hip-hop and the prison industrial complex.
Dr. Dreisinger earned her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, where she specialized in African-American studies and critical race theory. Her first book "Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture" (2008), a cultural history of whites who pass as black, was featured in the New York Times Book Review and on National Public Radio and CNN.
We will also hear an update from the DOP committee, news about upcoming lobby days in DC, and voices from around the nation - hopefully including yours!!
This is the nationwide monthly call of The Peace Alliance. We will share legislative updates, action opportunities, and timely announcements, and we want to hear from YOU about your peacebuilding efforts, challenges, and victories!
