Hamline University Center for Justice and Law & Mitchell Hamline School of Law present – Barriers to Reentry

This full-day conference will discuss the barriers of reentry formerly incarcerated individuals experienced & explore possible solutions. 5.0 hours of continuing education credits are available.

Our keynote speaker, Reginald Dwayne Betts, transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate of Yale Law School. He has written three acclaimed collections of poetry.

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Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration
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9:00 – 10:00 am: Introduction & Overview of the problem
Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General
Dr. Jillian Peterson, Professor at Hamline University
Jon Geffen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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10:00 – 11:00 am: Impacted Individual Panel with
Moderator Kevin Reese, Voices for Racial Justice
Naomi Gaines-Young, Author
Chris O’Donnell
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11:15 – 12:15 pm: Government Panel
John Choi, Ramsey County Attorney
Rep. Raymond Dehn, Minnesota House of Representatives
Paul Schnell, Minnesota Commissioner of Corrections
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12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch Keynote with Reginald Dwayne Betts
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1:45 – 3:15 pm: Solutions panel
Moderator Emily Baxter, Executive Director of We Are All Criminals
Emily Turner, Founder of All Square
Otis Zanders, Ujamaa Place
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3:30 – 5:00 pm: Reception – SEEN Exhibit

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Continuing Education:
5.0 hours of continuing education is available from the following boards:
MN Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
MN Board of Social Work
MN Board of Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
MN Educator Licensing and Board of Teaching

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If you have any questions, please email us at cjl@hamline.edu