Taking on Transformation is a project of the Columbia Justice Lab’s Youth Justice Initiatives. Here you will find information and resources for system leaders, and anyone making decisions about youth justice, who are looking to push for real transformation from punitive justice systems to community-based support networks for youth.
Kicking off the event series, “Setting the Stage” explores the role of system leaders in shifting away from punitive policies and incarceration and toward a more community-oriented vision of justice.
PANELISTS
JARRELL E. DANIELS
2021 Truman Scholar, Columbia University
MODERATOR
GLADYS CARRIÓN
Co-Chair, Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice
CLINTON LACEY
President & CEO, Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement (CM3)
MISHI FARUQEE
National Field Director, Youth Initiative
HIGHLIGHTS
Clinton Laceytalks about the need to move beyond making a better, kinder, more humane system, and instead bringing community to the table to imagine something totally different.
Mishi Faruqee speaks about why we need to start with system leaders who are willing to be disrupters, and even see themselves as organizers who lift up youth voice and youth vision.
Gladys Carrión on the different way youth are treated based on race and zip code, envisioning a system that does not include incarceration or confinement