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Advocacy is Visual: A Visual Exploration of Hope, Resilience and Change in Community with Incarcerated Women
Monday October 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm CDT
Main Space (Digital Humanities Center)
In collaboration with Poetic Justice, an organization committed to offering restorative writing and creative arts programs to incarcerated women, this presentation amplifies the power of the visual, specifically photography via a multimodal community project, Voices on the Inside. This experience creates space for necessary conversations about systemic issues such as mass incarceration and gender-based violence, poverty and drug abuse, etc. This campfire session will offer attendees a chance to engage with the photography from the exhibit and engage in critical conversations and open dialogue around some of the systemic and social justice issues that arise and our collective advocacy efforts moving forward and the power of the visual to enact new possibilities of lasting change.
Speakers
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Reka Barton

Assistant Professor of Literacy, University of Maryland
Reka Barton, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Literacy at the University of Maryland. Her research explores liberatory practices and spaces in education, more specifically multilingualism, multiliteracies, and multimodality for the advancement of Black girls and women. Her research... Read More →
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Samantha Bhatia

Poetic Justice
Samantha (Sam) Bhatia has been with Poetic Justice since 2022 as a class facilitator, while attending SDSU full time, and working as an investigations intern with the San Diego Public Defender.  Sam graduated with degrees in Criminal Justice and Psychology, and soon after took on... Read More →
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Katie Turner

Poetic Justice
Kate Turner holds BA degrees in English and Political Science, a Master’s Degree Arts-Education, and a California teaching certification in 6-12 English. While pursuing her degree at NYU and after, Kate worked in the juvenile justice system, and after 15 years teaching creative... Read More →
Monday October 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm CDT
Main Space (Digital Humanities Center)
  Campfire

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