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Led by Professor Jamelia Morgan, the Northwestern Pritzker Law Center for Racial and Disability Justice (CRDJ) is a first-of-its-kind center dedicated to promoting justice for people of color, people with disabilities, and individuals at the intersection of race and disability. Learn more at: https://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/racial-disability-justice/

Recording of the Understanding Disability Criminalization panel that was held both virtually via Zoom and in person at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law on October 2, 2024 from 12 pm CT to 1 pm CT. The panel was hosted by Northwestern Law's Center for Racial and Disability Justice. The goal of this panel was to examine the contours of disability criminalization within and beyond traditional carceral spaces, like prisons and jails, and identify proposals for transformative change. Panel Moderator: Jamelia Morgan (Faculty Director, Center for Racial and Disability Justice; Professor, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law) Panelists: Linda Steele (Associate Professor, Law Health Justice, University of Technology Sydney) and Liat Ben-Moshe (Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois Chicago)

Recording of the Politics of Psychiatric Reinstitutionalization panel that was held virtually on March 27, 2024 from 12 pm CT to 1:15 pm CT. The panel was hosted by Northwestern Pritzker School of Law's Center for Racial and Disability Justice. The goal of this virtual panel was to discuss reinstitutionalization under the guise of recent policy efforts to force and coerce people with psychiatric disabilities and unhoused folks into “treatment” and hospitalization. Panel Moderator: Jordyn Jensen (Executive Director, Center for Racial and Disability Justice) Panelists: Luke Sikinyi (Director of Public Policy, Alliance for Rights and Recovery), Andrea Wagner (Managing Member, LaVoy Wagner LLC), and Stefen Short (Supervising Attorney & Director of the Prisoners' Rights Project, The Legal Aid Society)

Jamelia Morgan, Director of the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, gives two examples of over-policing and violence against people with disabilities and advocates for alternative, disabled-led solutions. View the full recording of the Disability, Policing, and Mass Incarceration webinar: https://disabilityphilanthropy.org/resource/disability-philanthropy-webinar-series-disability-policing-and-mass-incarceration/ View the Disability & Philanthropy Forum's 2023 Learning Series: https://disabilityphilanthropy.org/2023-disability-philanthropy-public-webinar-series/

Disabled people make up a disproportionately high rate of the prison population, and it is estimated that 50% of people killed by police have a disability. As we witness a continuing increase in mass incarceration of and police violence against disabled people, especially those who hold multiple marginalized identities, we must urgently take action to shift these deeply harmful trends. We must dismantle the systemic racism and ableism that criminalizes disabled people. This webinar was moderated by Judy Belk, Senior Advisor of the California Wellness Foundation and featured Jamelia Morgan, Director of the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; Candace Coleman, Community Organizer, Racial Justice at Access Living; and Subini Ancy Annamma, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Stanford University as panelists. For more about the 2023 Learning Series, visit https://disabilityphilanthropy.org/2023-disability-philanthropy-forum-learning-opportunities/ 0:00 Welcome, Poll, and Housekeeping 4:29 Judy Belk Introduction 6:15 Candace Coleman Introduction 9:22 Jamelia Morgan Introduction 11:57 Subini Annamma Introduction 14:43 Judy's Personal Connection 15:39 The Intersection of Race, Disability, and Policing 19:25 Disproportionate Policing and Incarceration of Disabled People 23:47 Mass Incarceration and Eugenics 29:01 Reentry for Formerly Incarcerated People with Disabilities 32:40 Disability, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights 37:02 What Funders Can Do 43:54 Q&A: Police in Schools 46:51 Q&A: Mass Incarceration and Mental Health 52:01 Q&A: Disability in Communities of Color 55:56 Call to Action and Close

Professor Jamelia Morgan is the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Professor Morgan is an award-winning and acclaimed scholar and teacher focusing on issues at the intersection of race, gender, disability, and criminal law and punishment. Her scholarship and teaching examine the development of disability as a legal category in American law, disability and policing, over-criminalization and the regulation of physical and social disorder, and the constitutional dimensions of the criminalization of status. Jordyn Jensen, M.Ed. is the Executive Director of the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Jordyn is someone with multiple disabilities, chronic illnesses, and psychiatric disability diagnoses. Her personal experience with disability contributes greatly to her interest, leadership, and service in this area. Jordyn's interdisciplinary research and teaching involves critical disability studies, disability policy, the history of urbanization for people with disabilities in the U.S., and the criminalization of disability. More about the Law & Mental Health Conference - www.lawconferences.org

The Institute for Racial Justice’s (IRJ) Racial Capitalism Across the Disciplines Series has two major goals. First, the series is inspired by the IRJ’s mission of accelerating transformational research and education towards racial justice and equity. The series will host discussions designed to center the racial foundations of capitalism in the lived realities of Blacks, Indigenous Peoples and People of Color. The talks and the discussions thereafter will focus on the ways the history as well as the current conditions and experiences of Blacks, Indigenous and People of Color continue to exhibit subjugation and oppression. This discussion, the final in this series, centered on racial capitalism and quality-of-life policing.

Recording of the 2023 Accessible Public Safety (APS) Conference's Keynote Address. The Accessible Public Safety Conference was held on Saturday, June 3rd at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. The conference worked to provide a space for institutions of higher education, community-based organizations, and impacted people with disabilities and their families with an opportunity to discuss issues related to experiences with law enforcement, correctional institutions, and the importance of disability-centered community-based support. The conference was hosted by Access Living, Northwestern Law's Center for Racial and Disability Justice, and Lawndale Christian Legal Center. Keynote Speaker: Chris Huff (DeAngelo's Change)

Recording of the 2023 Accessible Public Safety (APS) Conference's first panel on Reimagining Public Safety - A Pathway Forward. The Accessible Public Safety Conference was held on Saturday, June 3rd at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. The conference worked to provide a space for institutions of higher education, community-based organizations, and impacted people with disabilities and their families with an opportunity to discuss issues related to experiences with law enforcement, correctional institutions, and the importance of disability-centered community-based support. The conference was hosted by Access Living, Northwestern Law's Center for Racial and Disability Justice, and Lawndale Christian Legal Center. Panel Moderator: Jae Jin Pak (UIC Institute on Disability and Human Development) Panelists: Briana Payton (Chicago Appleseed), Alexander Brown (Access Living Advisory Council Member), and Dr. Obari Cartman (Association of Black Psychologists) Panel 1 examines the development and implementation of key components to a more efficient and effective public safety system in the United States. With a particular focus on community-based advocacy errors in Chicago, panelists consider the importance, viability, and potential impact of an alternative to public safety for impacted people of color with disabilities.