RE-IMAGINE JUSTICEsocialwork.nyu.edu/.../pdf/ReimagineJustice_Program.pdf1:00 - 2:00PM CONVERSATION WITH BAZ DREISINGER, PHD Professor and Founding Academic Director, the Prison-to–College-Pipeline

RE-IMAGINE JUSTICE: MASS INCARCERATION, REENTRY AND TRAUMAIntersections and Implications

for Social Work Practice

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

DECEMBER 6-7, 2016NYU Kimmel Center for University Life | New York, NY

CONTINUING EDUCATION CONTACT HOURS

This event is both NYSED and ACE Approved for 12 Continuing Education (CE) Contact Hours.

New York University Silver School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State

Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers {#SW-0012}.

This organization (NYU Silver School of Social Work, 1415) is approved as a provider for social work continuing

education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing

Education (ACE) program. NYU Silver School of Social Work maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval

Period: 11/11/16 - 11/11/19. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for

continuing education credits.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

How competent are you to practice or advocate for the

millions of people impacted by mass incarceration?

There are currently 2.2 million people – disproportionately people of color – in prison or in jail in the

United States. The enmeshed consequences of incarceration and prisons are omnipresent throughout the

social work profession (James & Smyth 2014). Yet critical discourse in schools of social work pertaining to

mass incarceration and criminal justice is marginal or in some cases completely absent (Epperson et al, 2011;

James & Smyth, 2014).

Welcome to Re-Imagine Justice: Mass

Incarceration, Reentry and Trauma

– Intersections and Implications

for Social Work Practice. This two-

day conference will enhance your

competency in practice skills necessary

for working with people impacted by

the criminal justice system, increase

your understanding of evidenced-based

interventions, and fuel your advocacy

for criminal justice reform.

It is our intent to stand with as allies,

and when needed, lift the voices of the

oppressed to demand that WE, Re-

Imagine Justice in America for ALL.

RE-IMAGINE JUSTICE: MASS INCARCERATION, REENTRY AND TRAUMAIntersections and Implications for Social Work Practice

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MESSAGE FROM DR. JAMES JACCARD Interim Dean and Professor of Social Work; Co-Director, Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

On behalf of the New York University Silver School of Social Work, it is my great

pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 Re-Imagine Justice: Mass Incarceration,

Reentry, and Trauma-Intersections and Implications for Practice conference. This two-

day event will present social workers with a historical and contemporary understanding

of mass incarceration, reentry, and their intersection with trauma. It will further provide

tools to facilitate holistic social work practice and advocacy with individuals, families,

and communities impacted by this destructive phenomenon. Special attention will also

be given to invisible populations, such as LGBTQ people, immigrants and women of

color.

The United States, often considered “the land of the free,” currently holds the dubious

distinction of having the world’s highest per capita prison population. While comprising

a mere five percent of the world’s population, the United States nonetheless accounts

for 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. No other country has managed to incarcerate so

many of its inhabitants. To put this in perspective, the incarceration rate for the rest of

world currently stands at 155 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants; for the United States it

is nearly quadruple that at 716 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants.

The conference is important as both an educational opportunity and a call to action

for social workers. With fewer than five percent of all schools of social work offering

required coursework on criminal justice and mass incarceration, this conference fills a

void. We will hear from advocates, community organizers, formerly incarcerated people

and those in reentry, as well as leading academics in the field about best practices and

evidenced-based interventions for serving people caught in the criminal justice system.

They will also speak to our core mission and values of helping communities in need.

We hope you will find this conference personally rewarding, and leave with greater

motivation to address the important intersections of mass incarceration, trauma and

social justice.

Sincerely,

JAMES JACCARD, PHD

Interim Dean and Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work

socialwork.nyu.edu


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MESSAGE FROM DR.KIRK A. JAMES Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Dear Conference Participants:

Prison abolitionist and human rights advocate Angela Davis has long urged America

to radically examine its mass incarceration problem. By radical, she asserts we must

simply get to the root — It is there we will find the understanding, which precipitates an

informed intervention.

Today, it feels like we are finally getting to the root. We are in a moment where the

mirage of justice in America is slowly fading. People from all walks of life are awakening

to the injustices perpetuated under the guise of democracy.

From Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, to the Ava DuVernay’s documentary

“13th,” it’s clear that America has intentionally facilitated a perverse form of neo-slavery

under the facade of “criminal justice.”

It is imperative that the social work profession, with its organizing value of “social

justice,” become a preeminent voice of opposition to mass incarceration. However, for

that to occur, it’s further imperative that as a profession we heed Angela Davis’s advice

and thus seek to understand the root causes which have instigated such a destructive

phenomenon.

One of my mentors and our keynote speaker Glenn Martin famously says: “people

closest to the problem are closest to the solution.” Re-Imagine Justice is thus our

attempt to bring the people closest to the problem of mass incarceration to the social

work profession.

Over two days, formerly incarcerated people (many now social workers), and

professionals working at various intersections of mass incarceration, will engage the

social work profession in critical dialogue. It is through this dialogue that we can reach

the roots; and it’s by reaching the roots that we can utilize that knowledge to inform our

education, our practice and our advocacy as WE challenge America to

Re-imagine Justice.

Peace.

KIRK A. JAMES, DSW

Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work, NYU Silver School of Social Work


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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Day 1: Tuesday, December 6

9:00 - 9:15AM WELCOME/OPENING REMARKS

James Jaccard, PhD, Interim Dean and Professor of Social Work; Co-director, Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health

Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work

9:15 - 10:00AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Glenn E. Martin, Founder and President, JustLeadership USA

10:00 - 10:15AM BREAK

10:15AM - 12:00PM PLENARY PANEL #1: THOSE IMPACTED ARE CLOSEST TO THE SOLUTION

Formerly incarcerated people discuss mass incarceration (pre-arrest—prison—reentry), and the ways in which social work practice can advocate around the issues presented.

Moderator: Marlon Peterson, BA, Founder, The Precedential Group

Derrick Cain, MA, Intake Specialist, The Brooklyn Bail Fund, Judicial Delegate, District 55

Terrance Coffie, BSW, Graduate Student, NYU Silver School of Social Work; College Pathways Adviser, The Doe Fund

Shagasyia Diamond, Community Organizer, Red Umbrella Project

Colby Thompson, Artist, Author and Political Activist, RAPP

Cheryl Wilkins, MSW; Senior Director of Education and Programs, Columbia University Center for Justice

12:00 - 1:00PM LUNCH

Provided by Drive Change’s Snowday Food Truck

1:00 - 2:00PM CONVERSATION WITH BAZ DREISINGER, PHD

Professor and Founding Academic Director, the Prison-to–College-Pipeline Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Author of Incarcerated Nations

2:00 - 3:30PM PLENARY PANEL #2: REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES

Social Workers discuss the various ways in which they work at the intersections of mass incarceration.

Moderators: Patricia Kim, MFA and Joshua Ware, BA Social Work Interns, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Jerry Davis-EL, BSW, Child and Adolescent Counselor

Nick Malinowski, MSW, Advocacy Specialist, Brooklyn Defender Services

Kingsley Rowe, LMSW, Reentry Program Administrator, NYU Prison Education Program

Dwight Stephenson, MSW, Family Services Specialist/Offender Workforce Development Specialist (OWDS), Osborne Association Fatherhood Initiative

3:30 - 4:00PM CLOSING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION

Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work, NYU Silver School of Social Work


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9:00 - 9:30AM WELCOMING REMARKS

Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work

CONVERSATION WITH KATHY BOUDIN, EdD

Co-Director and Co-Founder, Columbia University Center for Justice; Director, Criminal Justice Initiative and Adjunct Lecturer, Columbia University School of Social Work

9:30 - 11:00AM PLENARY PANEL #3: HOLISTIC AND HUMANE PRACTICES IN AN ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION

Moderator: Cameron Rasmussen, LMSW, Columbia University Center for Justice

Stacey Barrenger, BA, AM, PhD, Assistant Professor and McSilver Faculty Fellow, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Nancy Franke, MSW, Director, Goldring Reentry Initiative, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

Vivianne Guevara, MSW, Director of Client and Mitigation Services, Federal Defenders NY

Joe Madonia, LCSW-R, CASAC, Project Director, Brooklyn Treatment Court

11:00AM - 12:30PM PLENARY PANEL #4: RE-IMAGINE JUSTICE

Social Workers discuss ways in which our profession can empower itself to challenge mass incarceration, while re-imagining justice for all.

Moderator: Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Tina Maschi, PhD, Associate Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service

Carl Mazza, DSW, LMSW, Associate Professor, Department Chair, Lehman College Department of Social Work

Onaje Muid, MSW, LMHC, CASAC, FDLC, Adjunct Lecturer, NYU Silver School of Social Work; Advisor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Clinical Associate Director, Reality House, Inc.

Desmond Patton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Faculty Affiliate, Columbia University Social Intervention Group and Data Science Institute

12:30 - 1:00PM BOX LUNCH

1:00 - 2:30PM PLENARY PANEL #5: ADVOCACY & ORGANIZING

What is going on and how to get involved.

Moderator: Five Mualimm-ak, Founder and Director, Incarcerated Nation Corporation

Terry Banies, MSW, Co-Founder, Generating Hope

Darryl K. Cooke, BSW, Author, After the Bridge Was Crossed (A Journey of Thought)

Khalil Cumberbatch, MSW, Manager of Trainings, JustleadershipUSA

Xena Grandichelli, Advocate, Sylvia Rivera Law Project/Jails Action Coalition

Colby Thompson, Artist, Author and Political Activist, RAPP

2:30 - 3:00PM BREAK

3:00 - 5:00PM CLOSING EVENT: “6X9” & TRANSFORMATIONS SUITE

Cali Green

The Mill & Guardian (“6 X 9”)

Samora Pinderhughes

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Day 2: Wednesday, December 7

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Day 2: Wednesday, December 7

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

TERRY BANIES, MSW

Co-Founder, Generating Hope

Terry is the co-founder of Generating Hope, a social justice and support group at Governors State University

(GSU) that advocates and mentor’s individuals who are returning to society from prison. Generating Hope was

founded on the idea that obtaining an education produces hope for those who feel disenfranchised by the

weight of mass incarceration. Terry has spent a better part of his life inside Illinois prisons. Since his release in

2009, Terry has been working in the domestic violence field as a Partner Abuse Intervention Program (PAIP)

group facilitator. He has obtained his Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Social Work and is a violence prevention

advocate helping adolescents, teens and young adults who are at risk live up to their full potential. Terry also

gives presentations on Teen Dating Violence, Family Violence and facilitate Boys Respecting Others (BRO)

groups on anti-violence and respecting oneself in the Chicagoland area. He was also a contributing writer for the

GSU Phoenix newspaper.

STACEY L. BARRENGER, BA, AM, PHD

Assistant Professor of Social Work; McSilver Faculty Fellow, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Silver School Assistant Professor Dr. Stacey L. Barrenger received her PhD in Social Welfare from the School

of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned an AM (MSW equivalent) from the

School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. As a mental health services researcher,

Dr. Barrenger’s work examines the intersection between the mental health system and other systems of care:

criminal justice, homelessness, substance use, and poverty. Her current research examines how peer specialists

with criminal justice histories incorporate their lived experience into their work, and how they benefit from the

work in terms of their recovery and abstaining from recidivism. Previously, Dr. Barrenger worked in a community

mental health center in Chicago where she supervised two Assertive Community Treatment Teams, developed a

program to transition individuals from the state psychiatric hospital to the community, and worked on initiatives

to increase communication between Cook County Jail and local mental health providers. These experiences in

public mental health inform her current research agenda.

KATHY BOUDIN, EdD

Co-Director and Co-Founder, Columbia University Center for Justice; Director, Criminal Justice Initiative and Adjunct Lecturer, Columbia University School of Social Work

Dr. Kathy Boudin’s work focuses on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration and the development of

strategies to transform the current criminal justice system in the United States and to deal with the day-to-day

damage that the system has caused. Dr. Boudin, working with other women with whom she was incarcerated

during her 22 years in prison, focused on strengthening mother-child relationships across the separation of

incarceration including building the Teen Time program; bringing back college to Bedford Hills after the ending

of the Pell grants; and on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Since her release from prison in 2003, her projects include:

founding the Coming Home Program at the Spencer Cox Center for Health in NYC, which provides health care

for people returning from incarceration; developing a restorative practice program inside prisons for long-

termers, many of whom were sentenced as juveniles, and working on a policy initiative to release aging people

from prison and to reform parole policies syst Her publications have appeared in such journals as The Harvard

Education Review, Journal of Corrections Education, and Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and she is editor

and co-author of the book Breaking the Walls of Silence: AIDS and Women in a New York State Maximum

Security Prison. She received her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College, her master’s degree from

Norwich University, and her doctoral degree from Columbia University Teachers College.

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS (continued)

DERRICK CAIN

Activist, Service Provider and Lecturer; Judicial Delegate, District 55

In 1995, Derrick Cain decided to take control of his destiny while serving a 15 to life sentence in New York

State correctional facilities. Derrick has been engaged in activism for the past 13 years and specializes in

social advocacy, criminal and social justice, and servicing the underserved. Derrick is a spoken word poet and

champions the cause for post-secondary education for those who are incarcerated. Derrick graduated from Bard

College and earned a Masters from the New York Theological seminary. Currently, he is the Intake Specialist

for the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund. He previously worked on Rikers Island, with The Center for Alternative

Sentencing, Madison Strategies and Grant Associates. He was featured in The New Yorker discussing punishment

versus education. In 2013, he entered politics was elected judicial delegate for District 55 in Brooklyn.

TERRANCE COFFIE, BSW

College Pathways Adviser, The Doe Fund

Terrance Coffie is a 2016 graduate of NYU, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Social Work and was

honored with both NYU’s President’s Service Award and NYU Silver School of Social Work’s Excellence in

Leadership Award. Currently a graduate student at the Silver School and intern at the McSilver Institute for

Poverty Policy and Research, Terrance developed NYU’s College Pathways Program, which assists young men of

color and the formerly incarcerated in obtaining higher educational opportunities, and has hosted and co-hosted

various events on and off campus. Terrance has committed his life to advocating for social justice, specifically

in regards to the criminal justice system. After years of selling drugs, homelessness and incarceration, Terrance

enrolled into Bronx Community College, from which he graduated with many honors in 2014. As a formerly

incarcerated person, Terrance relies heavily on his personal experiences of poverty and incarceration to address

the social inequalities that leads to Mass Incarceration.

DARRYL K. COOKE, BSW

Author, After the Bridge Was Crossed (A Journey of Thought)

Darryl K. Cooke is a nationally recognized speaker and author of the self-help family relations book After the

Bridge Was Crossed (A Journey of Thought). Darryl obtained his BSW from Governor’s State University in 2014

and is currently enrolled in the school’s MSW program. He is certified in Civic Reflection, Peace Circle Training,

and Restorative Justice. Mr. Cooke is a board member for Chrysalis Community Center in the South Suburbs

of Chicago and he focuses on conflict resolution through the use of Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT), which

allows him to assist in preventing relapses, recidivism, as well as help our youth live meaningful and productive

lives. Mr. Cooke is also a veteran of the USMC and he is the host of Darryl Cooke Live which airs on 106.3,

Chicago’s R&B, Sundays from 9-10pm. Mr. Cooke gives presentations and workshops on CBT all over the nation

with substance and alcohol abuse service providers. Mr. Cooke was a part of the Behind the Bars forum at

Columbia University in New York 2015 and was a presenter on Inclusion versus Exclusion at the Council of Social

Work Education Annual Program Meeting in 2014.

KHALIL CUMBERBATCH, MSW Manager of Trainings, JustLeadershipUSA

Khalil Cumberbatch is a formerly incarcerated advocate for social justice movements within the New York City

area. He has worked within the reentry community in New York City since 2010 when he was released after

serving almost seven years in the New York State prison system. Since his release, Khalil has worked with various

non-profits as a service provider, policy analyst, advisor, board member, collaborator, and consultant. Khalil

graduated from CUNY Herbert Lehman College’s MSW program in May 2014, where he was awarded the Urban

Justice Award for his work with underserved and marginalized communities that are negatively impacted by

mass incarceration as well as high poverty and unemployment rates, lack of access to quality education, and

other ineffective social “safety nets.” Khalil currently serves as Manager of Trainings at JustLeadershipUSA, a

national non-profit dedicated to cutting the US correctional population in half by year 2030.


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JERRY DAVIS-EL, BSW

Child and Adolescent Counselor

Jerry Davis-EL is a Child and Adolescent Counselor for probation juvenile detention and at risk children at an

alternative high school. He holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Governors State University (GSU) and

is currently pursuing a Masters of Social Work at GSU with a concentration in families and children. He won The

Illinois Student Laureate Award in 2015 for his civic engagement and excellence in curricular and extracurricular

activities. He has presented at various events and colleges across the country including the Council of Social

Work Education (CSWE) 59th Annual Program Meeting, the 20th Annual GSU Student Research Conference,

Kennedy-King College, and Columbia University (NYC) to name a few. Jerry is active in numerous organizations

at GSU and is particularly proud of the work he has done as a founding member of Generating Hope, which

supports, advocates for, and empowers GSU students who have been impacted my mass incarceration. For

almost 16 years, Jerry himself was trapped in a cycle of destruction. Jail, prison and the streets were his life, until,

on his birthday in 2010, while in prison, Jerry learned that his daughter was murdered. Jerry left prison a month

later determined that his daughter’s death would not be in vain, and vowing to make social injustice the cause he

would now dedicate his life towards.

SHAGASYIA DIAMOND

Community Organizer, Red Umbrella Project

Shagasyia Diamond is a Community Organizer at Red Umbrella Project, where her primary focus is programming

dealing with trans-related issues in the sex industry, and the individual empowerment of people of color. She

has a long history of advocacy for women in the sex trades, with a focus on victims of criminalization and

deportation. In October of 2015, she founded Project Connection, a trans-women’s support and advocacy group.

KEYNOTE: BAZ DREISINGER, PHD

Professor & Founding Academic Director, the Prison-to-College Pipeline Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Author of Incarcerated Nations

Dr. Baz Dreisinger works at the intersection of race, crime, culture and justice. She earned her PhD in English

from Columbia University, where she specialized in American and African-American studies. Her book Near

Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008) was featured in

the New York Times Book Review and on National Public Radio. She is the Founding Academic Director of John

Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which offers college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated

men at Otisville Correctional Facility, and broadly works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated

and formerly incarcerated individuals. Professor Dreisinger moonlights as a journalist and critic, writing about

Caribbean culture, race-related issues, travel, music and pop culture. Together with Oscar-nominated filmmaker

Peter Spirer, Professor Dreisinger produced and wrote the documentaries Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop

Cop, which investigates the New York Police Department’s monitoring of the hip-hop industry, and Rhyme &

Punishment, about hip-hop and the prison industrial complex. Professor Dreisinger’s book Incarceration Nations:

A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World was published in 2016 and was heralded by the New York

Times, Washington Post, NPR and many more.


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NANCY FRANKE, MSW

Director, Goldring Reentry Initiative, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

Nancy Franke, MSW, is the Director of the Goldring Reentry Initiative (GRI), a program at Penn’s School of Social

Policy & Practice that works with people as they transition out of the Philadelphia Prison System and into the

community by having MSW interns provide therapeutic case management services pre- and post- release. Nancy

has worked with the GRI since 2012 where she has developed policies and procedures, supervised students, built

partnerships with various community agencies, and spoken on a variety of panels. Most recently Nancy has been

an advisor for Eastern State Penitentiary’s Returning Citizens Pilot Program and involved in the Philadelphia

Reentry Coalition. Nancy has her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania (2013) and a BA in religion and

philosophy from Gettysburg College (2006).

XENA GRANDICHELLI

Advocate, Sylvia Rivera Law Project/Jails Action Coalition

Xena Grandichelli is a longtime elder advocate in the transgender community. She has a paralegal Associate’s

degree in psychology, and is the oldest daughter of Sylvia Rivera, who was instrumental in the Stonewall Uprising

for LGBT rights. Xena is also a formerly incarcerated individual, and a co-leader in the Close Riker’s Island

Campaign. Xena is a Community Organizer in JustLeadershipUSA, Incarceration Nation, Jails Action Coalition,

The Sylvia River Law Project, Safe Outside The System Community Security Team, and Trans Justice at the Audre

Lorde Project.

VIVIANNE GUEVARA, MSW

Director of Client and Mitigation Services, Federal Defenders NY

Vivianne Guevara is the Director of Client and Mitigation Services at the Federal Defenders of New York in the

Eastern District. Prior to joining the Federal Defenders in 2012, Vivianne was an Investigator and Social Worker

at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. She also worked with clients individually to reduce

the impact of the collateral consequences that resulted from civil and criminal court involvement. Vivianne

began working in public defense in 2007 as a Social Worker at the Bronx Defenders, where she worked with

clients charged in domestic violence and mental health courts. While working toward her MSW, Vivianne was

an Outreach Specialist at The Bowery Residents’ Committee where she worked one-on-one with persistently

homeless individuals on the streets and in the subways of New York City. Vivianne is a graduate of NYU and

Columbia University School of Social Work. She holds a certificate in Restorative Justice and Restorative Circles

and received training from Kay Pranis, Planning Change, and the International Institute in Restorative Practices.

KIRK A. JAMES, DSW

Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Silver School Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Kirk A. James received his DSW from the University of Pennsylvania

and his MSW from Hunter College of The City University of New York. Dr. James focuses on deconstructing

issues of mass incarceration – specifically as it pertains to trauma, cognitive development, culpability, and the

examination of systems that foster and perpetuate racial injustice. He also launched the Silver School’s monthly

Mass Incarceration Conversation Series, which brings people impacted by mass incarceration together with

academics, activists, policy makers, and practitioners to create a more informed understanding and subsequent

response to mass incarceration. Dr. James’ dissertation, “The Invisible Epidemic in Social Work Academia,”

examined the complex phenomena of mass incarceration through a historical and contemporary lens. He

concluded by developing curricula for Master level students to increase awareness, activism and holistic practice

in the milieu. Courses developed from his dissertation have been implemented at Columbia University, Temple

University, City College, and the University of Pennsylvania amongst others.



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PATRICIA KIM, MFA; MSW

Social Work Intern, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Patricia Kim received her MFA from Columbia University and is teaching English Composition and Literature at

Baruch College while completing a novel. Her experience working with disadvantaged youth at the college level

inspired her to pursue an MSW at Columbia. Her paper on mass incarceration, titled What Must Be Undone, was

recently published in The Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. She lives in Brooklyn.

JOE MADONIA LCSW-R, CASAC

Director, Brooklyn Treatment Court

Joe Madonia is a graduate of NYU, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a Credentialed Alcohol and

Substance Abuse Counselor. He is currently the Director of the Brooklyn Treatment Court where he is

responsible for the implementation of policy and planning, oversight of clinical operations, management of

federal grants and supervision of staff. In this role, he also developed and implemented the Brooklyn Diversion,

Veterans and DWI courts. Mr. Madonia is currently the chairperson for Brooklyn Treatment Court’s Clinical

Advisory Board and the Brooklyn Veterans Stakeholder Board. He is also a member of the New York City Drug

Treatment Court Regional Work Group, committees for Best Practices on Young Adults and Veterans, and, in

2009, was appointed by Governor David Patterson to sit on the New York State Board for Medical Misconduct.

Mr. Madonia has conducted numerous trainings and workshops at the state and national levels, has served

on the curriculum development team for implementing veteran’s treatment courts in New York State, and is a

lecturer on trauma informed care for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Mr.

Madonia currently serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at NYU Silver School of Social Work and as a field instructor

for both NYU and Columbia University’s graduate social work programs. He also maintains a part-time private

psychotherapy practice in New York City, where he treats adolescents and young adults with substance abuse

and mental health disorders.

FIVE MUALIMM-AK

Founder and Director, Incarcerated Nation Corporation (INC)

Since his return to society, Five Mualimm-ak has worked to end state-funded torture and to dismantle the

prison industrial complex. Five has created numerous state-wide collective projects and helped to found the

Incarcerated Nation Corporation, a collective of people that all operate projects that serve those incarcerated,

previously incarcerated and their families. He is a justice scholar studying at Columbia University in New York,

is a founding leader of the Student Alliance for Prison Reform (SAPR), the nation’s largest student group, and

Princeton SPEAR (Student Prison Education and Reform). He sits on numerous boards and works with the United

Nations Anti-Torture Initiative, the US Human Rights Network, T’ruah - National Religious Campaign Against

Torture, and the ACLU as a human rights defender.

NICK MALINOWSKI, MSW

Advocacy Specialist, Brooklyn Defender Services

Born in Fishers Island, New York, Nick Malinowski is a social worker, writer and activist. He joined Brooklyn

Defender Services in October 2013 to support the organization’s policy, public education and community

outreach goals. Nick studied writing at Wesleyan University and received his MSW from Hunter College where he

dual-tracked in clinical practice and community organizing and specialized in criminal justice.


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KEYNOTE: GLENN E. MARTIN

Founder and President, JustLeadershipUSA

Glenn E. Martin is the Founder of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA), an organization dedicated to cutting the US

correctional population in half by 2030. JLUSA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy

reform. Glenn is a national leader and criminal justice reform advocate who spent six years in New York State

prisons. Prior to founding JLUSA, Glenn served for seven years as VP of Public Affairs at The Fortune Society,

and six years as Co-Director of the National HIRE Network at the Legal Action Center. Glenn is Co-Founder of

the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2012 America’s Leaders of Change

National Urban Fellow, and a member of the governing boards of the College and Community Fellowship, Million

Hoodies and the California Partnership for Safe Communities. Glenn also serves on Governor Cuomo’s Reentry

and Reintegration Council, the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration

Reform, the advisory board of the Vera Institute’s Public Health and Mass Incarceration Initiative, the National

Network for Safe Communities, the Executive Session on Community Corrections at Harvard University, and the

Global Advisory Council (GAC) of Cornerstone Capital Group.

Glenn has been an invited panelist at the White House, met with President Obama at an event focused on

criminal justice reform and received many prestigious honors and awards. He regularly contributes his expertise

to local and national news outlets such as MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NY1, Al Jazeera and CSPAN on topics such as

policing, de-carceration, alternatives to incarceration, and reentry issues.

TINA MASCHI, PHD

Associate Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service

Dr. Tina Maschi is an associate professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service in New

York City. She is a 2010 recipient of the competitive Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program

Award, which is funded by the Hartford Foundation and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). She is the

principal investigator for the research project, “Trauma, coping resources, and well-being among older adults

in prison.” Dr. Maschi has over 15 years of clinical social work and research experience in juvenile and criminal

justice settings and community mental health settings. She also is a professional musician and integrates the

use of creative arts interventions for improving well-being and feelings of community and empowerment among

diverse populations, including youth, older adults, women, and professionals in high stress positions. She is

currently coordinator of the Human Rights and Social Justice Course Sequence. She teaches research, practice,

and the foundation human rights and social justice courses at the Lincoln Center and Westchester Campuses at

the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.

CARL MAZZA, DSW, LMS

Associate Professor, Department Chair, Lehman College

Carl Mazza, DSW, LMSW is Associate Professor of Social Work at Lehman College of the City University of New

York as well as the Chair of the Social Work Department. Dr. Mazza is Past President of the New York State Social

Work Education Association and Former Chairperson of the Criminal & Juvenile Justice Track for the National

Council on Social Work Education. He has been recognized by the Urban Male Leadership Program of CUNY and

the African and African-American Studies Department of Lehman College for his years of service and dedication

to mentoring students; awarded Outstanding Service to Lehman College; and “Outstanding Peer Reviewer” from

the Journal of Social Work Education. Dr. Mazza has been named “Person of the Year” by the College Initiative

Program, a support program for people transitioning from prison into college and has received a Lifetime

Achievement Award from Hudson Link, a nonprofit agency providing college education to people incarcerated in

prison. He has published on incarcerated fathers, children of incarcerated parents, persons re-entering the larger

society from prison, practicing social work in prisons, and adolescent fathers. He serves on the board of directors

of several nonprofit social service agencies concerned with social and economic justice.



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ONAJE MUID, MSW, LMHC, CASAC, FDLC

Adjunct Lecturer, NYU Silver School of Social Work; Advisor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Clinical Associate Director, Reality House Inc.

Onaje Muid, MSW, LMHC, CASAC, FDLC specializes in creating culturally appropriate, trauma centered, social

justice human service systems to reverse historical trauma for oppressed populations. His 30-year counseling/

administration career in the addictions warranted his appointment to the New York State Association of

Substance Providers Board; the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault Board; and Columbia University

School of Social Work’s Community Participatory Research Board. He holds a graduate degree in social work

from SUNY: Stony Brook University; a license in mental health, a two credentials, one in substance counseling

and the other in family development, from New York State. He currently serves as the Clinical Associate Director

of Reality House Inc., an adjunct lecturer at NYU Silver School of Social Work, faculty member of the New

York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services Bureau of Talent Management and Performance

Improvement, and advisor for Columbia University School of Social Work. His avocation is that of human

rights, whereas, he served as the Non-Governmental Organization representative to the United Nations for the

International Human Rights Association for American Minorities, and was a delegate to the United Nations World

Conference Against Racism in South Africa in 2015.

DESMOND PATTON, PHD

Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Faculty Affiliate, Columbia University Social Intervention Group and Data Science Institute

Dr. Desmond Upton Patton is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and a

Faculty Affiliate of the Social Intervention Group and the Data Science Institute. His research utilizes qualitative

and computational data collection methods to examine how and why youth and gang violence, trauma, grief and

identity are expressed on social media and the real world impact they have on well-being for low-income youth

of color. His current research projects examine: how gang involved youth conceptualize threats on social media,

the extent to which social media shapes and facilitates youth and gang violence, developing an online tool for

detecting aggression in social media posts in partnership with the Data Science Institute at Columbia. Before

coming to Columbia in July of 2015, Dr. Patton was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School

of Social Work and School of Information. He received a BA in Anthropology and Political Science, with honors,

from the University of North Carolina- Greensboro, MSW from the University of Michigan School of Social Work

and PhD in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago.

MARLON PETERSON, BA

Founder, The Precedential Group

Marlon Peterson is a national social and criminal justice advocate, writer, organizational trainer, and educator

who spent 10 years in New York State prisons. He is the founder of The Precedential Group, a social justice

consulting firm, and a 2015 recipient of the prestigious Soros Justice Fellowship. During his incarceration he

collaborated with friend, author, and founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, Dr. Nadia Lopez, to create

a letter correspondence mentorship program with middle school students. This program laid the foundation

for HOLLA (How Our Lives Link Altogether), of which he was a co-founder. Since his release from prison in

December 2009, Marlon has held several nonprofit positions, including Director of Community Relations at

The Fortune Society, Associate Director of the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, and founding

coordinator of Youth Organizing to Save. Marlon currently serves as board chair of Families for Freedom and

is a board member of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. Marlon holds a Bachelor of Science from NYU with a

concentration in Organizational Behavior, and lives by the hashtag, #BePrecedential.


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CAMERON RASMUSSEN, LMSW

Program Director, Columbia University Center for Justice

Cameron Rasmussen is the Program Director at the Center for Justice at Columbia University and has worked

in program development, program management and direct service with individuals, families and communities

impacted by incarceration and the child welfare system for more than five years. He is committed to reimagining

our responses to human behavior and pathways to social justice and to contributing towards the larger

movement of an anti-oppressive social work practice. At the Center for Justice he has helped to develop

and manage a wide array of programming including the Rikers Education Program and the Beyond the Bars

Fellowship, he is one of the lead organizers of the annual Beyond the Bars Conference and is leading the

development of the Center’s newest project, Just Futures, a restorative justice program for incarcerated young

adults at Rikers Island. Before joining the Center he co-developed and coordinated the Televisiting Program for

Fathers at the Osborne Association, a program that allows children to video visit with their incarcerated father.

He is an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work where he received his MSW.

KINGSLEY ROWE, LMSW

Reentry Program Administrator, NYU Prison Education Program

Kingsley A. Rowe was born in Brooklyn and spent his adolescence in Philadelphia. At the age of 18, he was

sentenced to a minimum term of 8 to 20 years in prison resulting from his use of a handgun, which caused the

accidental death of a close friend. While incarcerated, Kingsley earned his Associates Degree from St. Francis

College (PA) Prison Program and made a commitment to become a productive citizen and give back to society,

particularly in inner-city communities. After being incarcerated for 10 years in Pennsylvania, he enrolled at NYU,

where he earned his BS in Information Systems Management. He went on to receive his MSW from NYU Silver

School of Social Work with the support of a Constance McCatherin Silver Fellowship. Kingsley has worked as a

social worker with many disenfranchised populations including LGBTQ youth and adults, impoverished families,

and adults living with serious mental illness; however, is helping individuals coming home from prison make the

successful transition to productive and contributing members of society through education. Kingsley draws

upon his experiences of incarceration and education as a cautionary tale about guns and as inspiration for those

looking to build a life after prison.

DWIGHT STEPHENSON, MSW

Family Services Specialist/Offender Workforce Development Specialist, Osborne Association Fatherhood Initiative

Over the past eight years, Dwight Stephenson has worked in the field of social work assisting various populations

in assessing and finding their strengths as well as a sense of balance within their lives. He has worked with

formerly incarcerated men and women; young men in the Alternatives to Incarceration population; homeless,

Black and Latino males seeking to make a successful transition from high school to college; as well as first

generation college students. Mr. Stephenson earned both his BS in Social Work and his MSW from Lehman

College. Mr. Stephenson works with the Osborne Association in the Fatherhood Initiative as a Family Services

Specialist/ Offender Workforce Development Specialist (OWDS). He conducts workshops and training for

Fatherhood Initiative participants, helps fathers increase their engagement with their children, and helps them

develop and understand the skills needed to enter/ or reenter the workforce.

COLBY THOMPSON

Artist, Author, Speaker and Activist, RAPP

Colby Thompson is an artist, author, speaker and activist who after spending 10 years in Bedford Hills

Correctional Facility for Women came to New York City to inspire and empower others who have been

imprisoned by anything in their lives. She is writing her first book, “Do As I Say, Not As I Did (Learning To Take

Our Own Advice)” and is launching a website and non-profit organization, Colby’SoulAcademy to empower

others. Her motto is “Changing lives from the inside out.”



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JOSHUA WARE

Social Work Intern, NYU Silver School of Social Work

Joshua Ware is an Arverne, Queens native who is currently enrolled in Hunter College’s Silberman School of

Social Work. He graduated from Hunter College with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. He has

spent time giving back to his community by working with youth who were matriculating into college. He has

also spent time working with youth organizations on projects like Participatory Budgeting and the building of a

community garden. He strongly believes in using the strengths of the community in order to bring change. This

belief presents itself in the way he approaches social work practice. Joshua’s ultimate goal is to give back to his

community in the most powerful way he knows how: building an agency that provides affordable therapeutic

services to adolescents and their families.

CHERYL WILKINS, MSW

Senior Director of Education and Programs, Columbia University Center for Justice

At Columbia University Cheryl Wilkins is the Senior Director of Education and Programs at the Center for Justice

where her work is committed to reducing the nation’s reliance on incarceration, developing new approaches

to safety and justice, and participating in the national and global conversation around developing effective

criminal justice policy. Cheryl is also an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and is

instrumental in developing the Justice in Education Prison Program, a project that is partnering with Hudson Link

and Marymount Manhattan programs where Columbia University professors are teaching inside Bedford Hills,

Taconic, and Sing Sing Correctional Facilities. In the community, Cheryl is a consultant for Healing Community

Network, a program which offers support groups inside prison as well as in the community. Cheryl’s area of

research has been Changing Minds: the Impact that College Has on Women in a Maximum Security Prison and

Women on the Road to Health, a study that looks at the best way to provide an intervention to women who are

at high risk to contract HIV/AIDS.

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RE-IMAGINE JUSTICEsocialwork.nyu.edu/.../pdf/ReimagineJustice_Program.pdf1:00 - 2:00PM CONVERSATION WITH BAZ DREISINGER, PHD Professor and Founding Academic Director, the Prison-to–College-Pipeline