Conference Agenda

9:00am – 9:40am Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:45am – 10:45am Opening Keynote Dialogue: Disrupting the “primary school to prison” pipeline:  How might CUNY strengthen its response to this problem?

Ms. Saundra Thomas, WABC-TV

Ms. Janet Garcia, PhD. Candidate, Rutgers University, Macaulay/Hunter Class of 2011

Mr. Hernan Carvente, John Jay College Class of 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

Breakout Session #1: Increasing Engagement, Enrollment & Retention of Current and Formerly Incarcerated Young Adults  — Bianca Van Heydoorn, Director of Educational Initiatives, John Jay College Prisoner Re-entry Institute

Breakout Session #2: Utilizing a Holistic Defense Model to Address the Problems Faced by Teens who are Prosecuted as Adults and The Criminalization of Student Activism on 21st Century College Campuses — Jenay Nurse, Bronx Defenders, The Adolescent Defense Project, and Alyssia Osorio, City College Class of 2014

Breakout Session #3: Breakout Session #3: At Risk Youth Empowerment Through Arts Programming — Gwendolen Hardwick, Artistic and Education Director, CUNY Creative Arts Team

12:15pm – 1:15pm

Lunch Keynote: The Bard Prison Initiative: An Overview ( http://bpi.bard.edu/)

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Optional Working Discussion Groups for Networking and Development of Action Items