Keynote Speaker

  • Rev. Willie Bodrick II, J.D., M. Div., Senior Pastor of the Historic Twelfth Baptist Church (Roxbury); Law Clerk at Brown Rudnick

MODERATOR:

  • Diana Saintil, Ed.M., Founder of BeProximate

Panelists

  • Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, U.S. House of Representative for the Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District

  • Steven W. Tompkins, Sheriff of Suffolk County

  • Rachael Rollins, District Attorney of Suffolk County

  • Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Miranda, Massachusetts State Representative for the 5th Suffolk District

  • Rahsaan D. Hall, Esq., Director of the Racial Justice Program at the ACLU of MA

  • Chidi Umez, Esq., Deputy Program Director at the Council of State Governments Justice Center

  • Nan M. Gibson, Executive Director of Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Carson Whitelemons, Criminal Justice Manager at Arnold Ventures

MODERATOR:

  • Diana Saintil, Ed.M., Founder of BeProximate

Panelists

  • Yolanda Smith, Superintendent and Special Sheriff of Suffolk County

  • Alvin C. Jacobs Jr., Photojournalist and Image Activist

  • Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director at Mass Cultural Council

Artists

  • Students at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department

  • Students at Boston University

MODERATOR:

  • Diana Saintil, Ed.M., Founder of BeProximate

Panelists

  • Ruth Delany, Program Manager at the Vera Institute of Justice

  • Dr. Erin Corbett, Co-Founder/CEO of Second Chance Educational Alliance, Inc.

  • Emmanuel Allen, Director of the Re-Engagement Center at Boston Public Schools

  • Dr. Kaia Stern, Director of the Prison Studies Project, Harvard University; Practitioner in Residence, Radcliffe Institute; Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Dr. Hilary Binda, Founding Director of Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch; Director of the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Senior Lecturer in Civic Studies

MODERATOR:

  • Diana Saintil, Ed.M., Founder of BeProximate

Panelists

  • Dr. Renee Boynton-Jarret, Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Director of the Vital Village Network at Boston Medical Center/Boston University

  • Judge Nancy Gertner, Senior Lecturer of Law at the Harvard Law School; Managing Director at the Harvard/MGH Center for Law, Brain & Behavior; Former Federal Judge at the U.S. District of Massachusetts

  • Dr. Robert Kinscherff, Professor, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the William James College; Associate Managing Director (Juvenile and Young Adult Justice Project) at the Harvard/MGH Center for Law, Brain & Behavior

  • Dr. Craig Haney, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California (Santa Cruz); Researcher on the Stanford Prison Project

  • G.W., Student at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department

MODERATOR:

  • Diana Saintil, Ed.M., Founder of BeProximate