Join Community Justice and Equity (CJaE) for a presentation, The Community Impacts of Drug Criminalization in Maryland, by Natalie Flath, Lawrence Grandpre, Judith Park & Brook Kearley.
Thursday, April 27 | 12:15 - 1:45 PM EST (in-person in room 2W11 and via Zoom)
Join CJaE for a discussion on a new research report that outlines the impacts of drug criminalization on community well-being in Baltimore. The research takes a participatory emancipatory stance as it is led by grassroots racial justice scholars who elevate community voices traditionally marginalized in drug policy spaces. As the country progresses with criminal legal reforms related to drugs, we hope the research shapes drug decriminalization dialogue and future decriminalization campaigns that undergirds critical race consciousness for community reinvestments that address the harms of the War on Drugs.
Natalie Flath is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Lawrence Grandpre is Director of Research for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Judith Park is a Research Project Coordinator at UMB, and Brook Kearly is Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Implementation.
An open discussion will follow the presentation. Anyone from the UMB SSW community is welcome! This will be CJaE’s final meeting of the semester.
CJaE is designed to be an incubator for research initiatives and collaborations among students, staff, researchers, community groups, and government agencies that critically examines legal systems and their stakeholders in a dynamic context using an anti-oppressive, anti-racist lens. We seek to highlight and grow some of the important legal systems work that we are doing at the UMB SSW.
>> Feel free to contact Nancy Franke (Nancy.franke@ssw.umaryland.edu) or Corey Shdaimah (cshdaimah@ssw.umaryland.edu) for the Zoom link or any questions.