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VIDEO: The Flows Between Education and Incarceration

The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the pattern of pushing students out of educational institutions into criminal legal systems. This panel examined the school-to-prison pipeline’s disproportionate effect on BIPOC students and explored efforts to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. Hosted at the 17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

December 03, 2020

Ray Warren Symposium: Movement

The Flows Between Education and Incarceration

A roundtable discussion held at the 17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies

The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the pattern of pushing students out of educational institutions (largely through zero tolerance policies) into the juvenile and adult criminal legal systems. This panel examined the school-to-prison pipeline’s disproportionate effect on BIPOC students, exposing how public education policies bolster carceral systems as well as exploring efforts to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. In addition, this panel considers the pipelines that lead from prison to school, addressing how BIPOC (and people of other marginalized identities) turn to education to generate movement inside carceral systems and also for redirection, post-release.

Voices from two Mellon Foundation community partners–Inside Out and Roosevelt High School–are essential part of this conversation.

Moderator: Reiko Hillyer, L&C associate professor of history

Panelists:

Ben Hall, prison abolitionist and activist recently released from prison after 22 years
Queaz Otti, recently incarcerated member of Liberation Literacy and host of “Tin Can Phone” podcast
Keri Hughes, Roosevelt High School teacher
Emijah Smith, community engagement manager for Children’s Alliance, racial justice advocate in Seattle Public Schools
Tyee Griffith, manager for Justice Education at The Claremont Colleges, career counselor with the Prison Education Project, and program coordinator of the Reintegration Academy

This event was held on Thursday Nov. 12, 2020. The roundtable discussion was free and open to the public.

Immersive Learning

How Migrant Stories Are Told

A new course, Playing at the Border: Migration and Art, examines how migrant and refugee stories are told in film, theatre, and visual art, providing students with opportunities to engage directly with Portland’s immigrant communities.

Come to Narrative Medicine Skills Training!

With support from the Mellon Foundation, Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) is developing Narrative Medicine Skills Training.

Narrative Medicine Skills Training introduces the narrative medicine principles of attention, representation, and affiliation and develops participant skills of listening and witnessing. We will reflect on how listening and witnessing can be applied to stories of health, illness and healing in diverse healthcare settings to improve care and support healing.

Training is open to students, health professionals, faculty, staff and community members– anyone curious about the practice of narrative medicine.

Narrative Medicine Skills Training

Saturday, February, 22
8:45-3:30

in-person and on-campus
Smith Hall
Lewis & Clark College

Register Here

Health Coverage: How Potential Providence Strike Impacts Patients

Carolyn Zook, Associate Director at the L&C Center for Community and Global Health is featured in this KGW8 story on the possibility of healthcare strikes in Oregon. She shares her expertise alongside L&C Law School Prof. Keith Cunningham-Parmeter

WATCH HERE

Experiential Learning

Health + Humanities Internships = Impact

The Center for Community and Global Health offers funding for health and humanities internships with Portland-area partners. Whether over the summer or during the school year, L&C students benefit from paid internships that turn career exploration into action.