Members of the Race, Equity, and Procedural Justice Committee are excited to announce its next Book Club Event on August 18, 2022, at 5:30 pm, at America's Black Holocaust Musem - 401 W North Avenue.

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Milwaukee County Courts:
Judge Carl Ashley (Chair)
Judge Brittany Grayson
Judge Cynthia Davis
Judge Danielle Shelton
Judge Mary Triggiano
Judge Jeffrey Kremers (ret.)
Stephanie Garbo
Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office
John Chisholm
Jeffrey Altenburg
Kelly Hedge
Milwaukee Community Justice Council:
Mandy Potapenko
Erin Perkins
Jarvell Williams (MU Trinity Fellow)
Public Defenders Office:
Tom Reed
Katie Holtz
Dawn Rablin
Paige Styler
Milwaukee Police Department:
Captain Timothy Leitzke
Nick DeSiato
Milwaukee County House of Correction:
Superintendent Chantel Jewell
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office:
Douglas Holton, Jr.
Wisconsin Department of Corrections:
Tejuana King
Niel Thoreson
Dionna Clemmons
Milwaukee County Office on African American Affairs:
Jeff Roman
US Attorney's Office:
Ken Gales
Community Partners:
Sharlen Moore (Urban Underground)
Geraud Blanks (Milwaukee Film)
The War on Neighborhoods – Ryan Lugalia-Holton
America’s Original Sin – Jim Wallis
Tears We Cannot Stop – Michael Eric Dyson
White Rage – Carol Anderson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
The Law of Color, by Richard Rothstein
Between the Wold and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Biased, by Jennifer Eberhardt
How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
These Truths, by Jill Lepore
The Serving Leader, by Ken Jennings
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Solitary, by Albert Woodfox
Message to the Black Man in America, by Elijah Muhammad
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, by Nell Burnstein
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicaho, by Alex Kotlowitz
2022
April 8, 2022 - Conference - “Making our Community Safer & Reducing Mass Incarceration through a Restorative Justice Lens” - Event Flyer | Day of Event Agenda with Bios
February 3, 2022 - Book Club - "Until We Reckon," by Danielle Sered - Virtual Event
2021
2020
February 28, 2020 - Conference - "Advancing Racial Equity in Milwaukee's Justice System"
2019
August 13, 2019 - Book Club - "Locking Up Our Own Crime and Punishment in Black America," by James Forman Jr.
March 1, 2019 - Conference - "White Privilege," play + Discussions
2018
October 4, 2018 - Special Event - Racial Inequality, Poverty, and the Criminal Justice System at Marquette University Law School
Featured Speaker: Bruce Western. Flyer
2017
October 27, 2017 - Conference - The Impact of Race in the Criminal Justice System
Featured Speakers: Cecilia Klingle, Michael O'Hear, Lawrence Berger, Reggie Jackson, Lois Quinn
2016
October 14, 2016 - Conference - The Impact of Race in the Criminal Justice System
Featured Speakers: John Chisholm, Adam Foss, Glenn Martin, and Jeff Robinson
2015
October 2015 - Conference
"The Science of Implicit Bias"- Law School Dean L. Song Richardson and Attorney Jeffrey Robinson, Director ACLU Center for Justice
"The Science of Trauma" - Tim Grove, Chief Clinical Officer at Saint A’s and Judge Mary Triggiano
“The Culture of policing in the 21st Century” - Sue Rahr, Executive Director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission
“Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) a pre-booking, community-based practice” - Lisa Daugaard, Director of the Public Defender Association
2014
October 2014 - Conference - The Shared History of Racial Division in America by Attorney Jeffrey Robinson, Director ACLU Center for Justice