Race and Policy Feedback Conference

February 23, 2024
9:30 am – 4:45 pm
Louis A Simpson International Building, Room A71

Schedule

9:30 – 10:00 AM: Breakfast

10:00 – 12:15 PM: Panel 1 | Criminal Justice

• Traci Burch: The Chilling Effect of Prosecuting Voting After a Felony
  Conviction (Discussant: Kaiyla Banks)

• Hannah Walker: Fighting for Justice: Implementing Rights Restoration
  Among People with Felony Convictions (Discussant: Marayna Martinez)

• Vesla Weaver: Race, State Violence, and Policy Feedback (Discussant:
  Darius Cozart)

12:15 – 1:15 PM: Lunch

1:15 – 2:45 PM: Panel 2 | Social Policy

• Marayna Martinez: Exclusionary Discipline and Early Adult Political
  Participation Among Students of Color (Discussant: Claudia Cervantes
  Perez)

• Carolyn Barnes: It's Who You Know: The Politics of Race, Poverty, and
  Social Policy in the Rural South (Discussant: Isaiah Johnson)

2:45 – 3:15 PM: Break

3:15 – 4:45 PM: Panel 3 | State Institutions

• Mallory SoRelle: Predatory Politics: The Racialized Resource Effects of
  Consumer Credit (Discussant: Jeron Fenton)

• Jamila Michener: 'We're Not Being Heard': How Civil Legal Problems
  Erode Political Efficacy and Power (Discussant: Jasante’ Howard)

Speakers

• Carolyn Barnes (University of Chicago)

• Hannah Walker (Russel Sage Foundation)

• Jamila Michener (Cornell University)

• Mallory SoRelle (Duke University)

• Traci Burch (Northwestern University)

• Vesla Weaver (John Hopkins University)