Cooley Law School will host Dr. Michelle Alexander, Associate Professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 5:30-8 p.m. at the Cooley Temple Conference Center, 217 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing, Mich. The free event will be held in the center’s sixth floor auditorium, with a reception following. Alexander, who will speak at Cooley as part of the school’s 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, is the author of the book, The New Jim Crow. She will speak on employment and other consequences of a conviction, and how barriers to employment for individuals with convictions hurt communities, families, and taxpayers.
Sponsors of the event are: Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Northwest Initiative, Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People, I CARE, I VOICE, I ADVOCATE, ACLU of Michigan, American Friends Service Committee, A.R.R.O., Masters in Social Justice, Marygrove College, Detroit, Mich., Citizens for Prison Reform, Lansing Latino Health Alliance, Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency, Michigan League for Human Services, The New Citizen’s Press, Everybody Reads.
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