Re-Entry/Entry Symposium

BMCC will host the Re-Entry/Entry Symposium: Pedagogy, Programs and Policies that Support and Sustain Justice-Involved [formerly incarcerated] CUNY Students on May 3 in the Fiterman Conference Center, 14th floor, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch-time Keynote speakers:

• Reginald Dwayne Betts, Scholar, Poet, Yale Law School graduate and author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, and PEN New England Award Winner for poetry for Bastards of the Reagan Era
• Christopher Beasley, PhD, Professor of Community Psychology, University of Washington and founder of the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network.
• Jim St. Germain, BMCC and John Jay College graduate, author of a critically acclaimed memoir, A Stone of Hope and founder of Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow (PLOT), a mentoring organization.

CUNY scholars, CUNY program staff and administrators, reentry experts from Community Based Organizations (CBOs), as well as justice-involved students and alums, will share research, best practices, knowledge and experiences. In so doing, we can reduce barriers, transform programs, coordinate efforts, and deepen productive relationships—all in an effort to diminish stigma, and promote equity and inclusion for justice-involved students (this includes those students who are formerly incarcerated and/or who have had contact with the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems) in higher education and beyond.

See the complete schedule for the day.

This event is open to all CUNY schools.

Please RSVP if you are interested in attending this event.

For more information, contact Professor Lisa Rose at lrose@bmcc.cuny.edu.

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