Name: Fighting Carceral Infrastructure to End Mass Incarceration
Start: 2025-07-04T12:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-04T13:30:00-0500

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

TBA

Participants will learn tactics and strategies from campaigns against carceral infrastructure, including jails, prisons, and police training facilities. Panelists will also discuss how their work ties into the broader movement to end mass incarceration and other struggles for justice.

Speakers

Micah Herskind

Micah Herskind is an organizer, writer, and law student at Harvard Law School. He is a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement (Haymarket Books, 2025), and has written for outlets including New York Magazine, Scalawag, MSNBC, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and Race... Read More →

James "Jimmy" Soto

James "Jimmy" Soto is a community organizer, artist, prisoner advocate, writer, and future JD candidate. He was wrongfully convicted and was released after serving 42 years. He is a paralegal at Northwestern University Pritzker's School of Law in the Community Justice and Civil... Read More →

Avalon Betts-Gaston

Avalon Betts-Gaston is a Chicago native, non-licensed attorney, ordained minister, and passionate advocate to dismantle and change current systems while building a system of care and accountability focused on humane justice and harm reduction, not just punishment. She is the first... Read More →

Alicia Brown

Alicia Brown is a community leader and currently co director of Final 5 Campaign. She is a restorative justice practitioner, circle keeper, and abolitionist. She enjoys writing and was recently published in the “Envisioning Justice Curricular Concepts Resource Guide, Incarcerated... Read More →

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