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Mariame Kaba is one of the most extraordinary social justice organizers of our time. He work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and youth leadership development. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander , among others. She is an advisory board member of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, a group (along with Project NIA and WCG) that worked to get the Chicago City Council to pass a reparations law providing restitution to the victims of Jon Burge, a police commander who tortured more than 200 criminal suspects, most of them black men, from the 1970s through the early 1990s. Recently, she helped launch campaigns to end bail and provide bail out funds: How organizers raised over $233,000 in one day to bail hundreds out of jail and on Mother’s Day, she helped bail out Black mamas out of jail.

For more on who Mariame Kaba is and what she does, here is her website: http://mariamekaba.com/

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity (CSCRE), the Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Office, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Education Department, the Anthropology Department, the Communications Studies Department, the Honors Program, the Sociology Department, and the Politics Department at Ithaca College.

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