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RE-IMAGINE JUSTICE: MASS INCARCERATION, REENTRY AND TRAUMAIntersections and Implications
for Social Work Practice
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DECEMBER 6-7, 2016NYU Kimmel Center for University Life | New York, NY
CONTINUING EDUCATION CONTACT HOURS
This event is both NYSED and ACE Approved for 12 Continuing Education (CE) Contact Hours.
New York University Silver School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State
Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers {#SW-0012}.
This organization (NYU Silver School of Social Work, 1415) is approved as a provider for social work continuing
education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing
Education (ACE) program. NYU Silver School of Social Work maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval
Period: 11/11/16 - 11/11/19. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for
continuing education credits.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
How competent are you to practice or advocate for the
millions of people impacted by mass incarceration?
There are currently 2.2 million people – disproportionately people of color – in prison or in jail in the
United States. The enmeshed consequences of incarceration and prisons are omnipresent throughout the
social work profession (James & Smyth 2014). Yet critical discourse in schools of social work pertaining to
mass incarceration and criminal justice is marginal or in some cases completely absent (Epperson et al, 2011;
James & Smyth, 2014).
Welcome to Re-Imagine Justice: Mass
Incarceration, Reentry and Trauma
– Intersections and Implications
for Social Work Practice. This two-
day conference will enhance your
competency in practice skills necessary
for working with people impacted by
the criminal justice system, increase
your understanding of evidenced-based
interventions, and fuel your advocacy
for criminal justice reform.
It is our intent to stand with as allies,
and when needed, lift the voices of the
oppressed to demand that WE, Re-
Imagine Justice in America for ALL.
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MESSAGE FROM DR. JAMES JACCARD Interim Dean and Professor of Social Work; Co-Director, Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
On behalf of the New York University Silver School of Social Work, it is my great
pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 Re-Imagine Justice: Mass Incarceration,
Reentry, and Trauma-Intersections and Implications for Practice conference. This two-
day event will present social workers with a historical and contemporary understanding
of mass incarceration, reentry, and their intersection with trauma. It will further provide
tools to facilitate holistic social work practice and advocacy with individuals, families,
and communities impacted by this destructive phenomenon. Special attention will also
be given to invisible populations, such as LGBTQ people, immigrants and women of
color.
The United States, often considered “the land of the free,” currently holds the dubious
distinction of having the world’s highest per capita prison population. While comprising
a mere five percent of the world’s population, the United States nonetheless accounts
for 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. No other country has managed to incarcerate so
many of its inhabitants. To put this in perspective, the incarceration rate for the rest of
world currently stands at 155 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants; for the United States it
is nearly quadruple that at 716 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants.
The conference is important as both an educational opportunity and a call to action
for social workers. With fewer than five percent of all schools of social work offering
required coursework on criminal justice and mass incarceration, this conference fills a
void. We will hear from advocates, community organizers, formerly incarcerated people
and those in reentry, as well as leading academics in the field about best practices and
evidenced-based interventions for serving people caught in the criminal justice system.
They will also speak to our core mission and values of helping communities in need.
We hope you will find this conference personally rewarding, and leave with greater
motivation to address the important intersections of mass incarceration, trauma and
social justice.
Sincerely,
JAMES JACCARD, PHD
Interim Dean and Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
socialwork.nyu.edu
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MESSAGE FROM DR.KIRK A. JAMES Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Dear Conference Participants:
Prison abolitionist and human rights advocate Angela Davis has long urged America
to radically examine its mass incarceration problem. By radical, she asserts we must
simply get to the root — It is there we will find the understanding, which precipitates an
informed intervention.
Today, it feels like we are finally getting to the root. We are in a moment where the
mirage of justice in America is slowly fading. People from all walks of life are awakening
to the injustices perpetuated under the guise of democracy.
From Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, to the Ava DuVernay’s documentary
“13th,” it’s clear that America has intentionally facilitated a perverse form of neo-slavery
under the facade of “criminal justice.”
It is imperative that the social work profession, with its organizing value of “social
justice,” become a preeminent voice of opposition to mass incarceration. However, for
that to occur, it’s further imperative that as a profession we heed Angela Davis’s advice
and thus seek to understand the root causes which have instigated such a destructive
phenomenon.
One of my mentors and our keynote speaker Glenn Martin famously says: “people
closest to the problem are closest to the solution.” Re-Imagine Justice is thus our
attempt to bring the people closest to the problem of mass incarceration to the social
work profession.
Over two days, formerly incarcerated people (many now social workers), and
professionals working at various intersections of mass incarceration, will engage the
social work profession in critical dialogue. It is through this dialogue that we can reach
the roots; and it’s by reaching the roots that we can utilize that knowledge to inform our
education, our practice and our advocacy as WE challenge America to
Re-imagine Justice.
Peace.
KIRK A. JAMES, DSW
Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work, NYU Silver School of Social Work
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Day 1: Tuesday, December 6
9:00 - 9:15AM WELCOME/OPENING REMARKS
James Jaccard, PhD, Interim Dean and Professor of Social Work; Co-director, Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health
Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work
9:15 - 10:00AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Glenn E. Martin, Founder and President, JustLeadership USA
10:00 - 10:15AM BREAK
10:15AM - 12:00PM PLENARY PANEL #1: THOSE IMPACTED ARE CLOSEST TO THE SOLUTION
Formerly incarcerated people discuss mass incarceration (pre-arrest—prison—reentry), and the ways in which social work practice can advocate around the issues presented.
Moderator: Marlon Peterson, BA, Founder, The Precedential Group
Derrick Cain, MA, Intake Specialist, The Brooklyn Bail Fund, Judicial Delegate, District 55
Terrance Coffie, BSW, Graduate Student, NYU Silver School of Social Work; College Pathways Adviser, The Doe Fund
Shagasyia Diamond, Community Organizer, Red Umbrella Project
Colby Thompson, Artist, Author and Political Activist, RAPP
Cheryl Wilkins, MSW; Senior Director of Education and Programs, Columbia University Center for Justice
12:00 - 1:00PM LUNCH
Provided by Drive Change’s Snowday Food Truck
1:00 - 2:00PM CONVERSATION WITH BAZ DREISINGER, PHD
Professor and Founding Academic Director, the Prison-to–College-Pipeline Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Author of Incarcerated Nations
2:00 - 3:30PM PLENARY PANEL #2: REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES
Social Workers discuss the various ways in which they work at the intersections of mass incarceration.
Moderators: Patricia Kim, MFA and Joshua Ware, BA Social Work Interns, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Jerry Davis-EL, BSW, Child and Adolescent Counselor
Nick Malinowski, MSW, Advocacy Specialist, Brooklyn Defender Services
Kingsley Rowe, LMSW, Reentry Program Administrator, NYU Prison Education Program
Dwight Stephenson, MSW, Family Services Specialist/Offender Workforce Development Specialist (OWDS), Osborne Association Fatherhood Initiative
3:30 - 4:00PM CLOSING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION
Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work, NYU Silver School of Social Work
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9:00 - 9:30AM WELCOMING REMARKS
Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work
CONVERSATION WITH KATHY BOUDIN, EdD
Co-Director and Co-Founder, Columbia University Center for Justice; Director, Criminal Justice Initiative and Adjunct Lecturer, Columbia University School of Social Work
9:30 - 11:00AM PLENARY PANEL #3: HOLISTIC AND HUMANE PRACTICES IN AN ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION
Moderator: Cameron Rasmussen, LMSW, Columbia University Center for Justice
Stacey Barrenger, BA, AM, PhD, Assistant Professor and McSilver Faculty Fellow, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Nancy Franke, MSW, Director, Goldring Reentry Initiative, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice
Vivianne Guevara, MSW, Director of Client and Mitigation Services, Federal Defenders NY
Joe Madonia, LCSW-R, CASAC, Project Director, Brooklyn Treatment Court
11:00AM - 12:30PM PLENARY PANEL #4: RE-IMAGINE JUSTICE
Social Workers discuss ways in which our profession can empower itself to challenge mass incarceration, while re-imagining justice for all.
Moderator: Kirk A. James, DSW, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Tina Maschi, PhD, Associate Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Carl Mazza, DSW, LMSW, Associate Professor, Department Chair, Lehman College Department of Social Work
Onaje Muid, MSW, LMHC, CASAC, FDLC, Adjunct Lecturer, NYU Silver School of Social Work; Advisor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Clinical Associate Director, Reality House, Inc.
Desmond Patton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Faculty Affiliate, Columbia University Social Intervention Group and Data Science Institute
12:30 - 1:00PM BOX LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30PM PLENARY PANEL #5: ADVOCACY & ORGANIZING
What is going on and how to get involved.
Moderator: Five Mualimm-ak, Founder and Director, Incarcerated Nation Corporation
Terry Banies, MSW, Co-Founder, Generating Hope
Darryl K. Cooke, BSW, Author, After the Bridge Was Crossed (A Journey of Thought)
Khalil Cumberbatch, MSW, Manager of Trainings, JustleadershipUSA
Xena Grandichelli, Advocate, Sylvia Rivera Law Project/Jails Action Coalition
Colby Thompson, Artist, Author and Political Activist, RAPP
2:30 - 3:00PM BREAK
3:00 - 5:00PM CLOSING EVENT: “6X9” & TRANSFORMATIONS SUITE
Cali Green
The Mill & Guardian (“6 X 9”)
Samora Pinderhughes
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Day 2: Wednesday, December 7
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Day 2: Wednesday, December 7
SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
TERRY BANIES, MSW
Co-Founder, Generating Hope
Terry is the co-founder of Generating Hope, a social justice and support group at Governors State University
(GSU) that advocates and mentor’s individuals who are returning to society from prison. Generating Hope was
founded on the idea that obtaining an education produces hope for those who feel disenfranchised by the
weight of mass incarceration. Terry has spent a better part of his life inside Illinois prisons. Since his release in
2009, Terry has been working in the domestic violence field as a Partner Abuse Intervention Program (PAIP)
group facilitator. He has obtained his Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Social Work and is a violence prevention
advocate helping adolescents, teens and young adults who are at risk live up to their full potential. Terry also
gives presentations on Teen Dating Violence, Family Violence and facilitate Boys Respecting Others (BRO)
groups on anti-violence and respecting oneself in the Chicagoland area. He was also a contributing writer for the
GSU Phoenix newspaper.
STACEY L. BARRENGER, BA, AM, PHD
Assistant Professor of Social Work; McSilver Faculty Fellow, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Silver School Assistant Professor Dr. Stacey L. Barrenger received her PhD in Social Welfare from the School
of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned an AM (MSW equivalent) from the
School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. As a mental health services researcher,
Dr. Barrenger’s work examines the intersection between the mental health system and other systems of care:
criminal justice, homelessness, substance use, and poverty. Her current research examines how peer specialists
with criminal justice histories incorporate their lived experience into their work, and how they benefit from the
work in terms of their recovery and abstaining from recidivism. Previously, Dr. Barrenger worked in a community
mental health center in Chicago where she supervised two Assertive Community Treatment Teams, developed a
program to transition individuals from the state psychiatric hospital to the community, and worked on initiatives
to increase communication between Cook County Jail and local mental health providers. These experiences in
public mental health inform her current research agenda.
KATHY BOUDIN, EdD
Co-Director and Co-Founder, Columbia University Center for Justice; Director, Criminal Justice Initiative and Adjunct Lecturer, Columbia University School of Social Work
Dr. Kathy Boudin’s work focuses on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration and the development of
strategies to transform the current criminal justice system in the United States and to deal with the day-to-day
damage that the system has caused. Dr. Boudin, working with other women with whom she was incarcerated
during her 22 years in prison, focused on strengthening mother-child relationships across the separation of
incarceration including building the Teen Time program; bringing back college to Bedford Hills after the ending
of the Pell grants; and on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Since her release from prison in 2003, her projects include:
founding the Coming Home Program at the Spencer Cox Center for Health in NYC, which provides health care
for people returning from incarceration; developing a restorative practice program inside prisons for long-
termers, many of whom were sentenced as juveniles, and working on a policy initiative to release aging people
from prison and to reform parole policies syst Her publications have appeared in such journals as The Harvard
Education Review, Journal of Corrections Education, and Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and she is editor
and co-author of the book Breaking the Walls of Silence: AIDS and Women in a New York State Maximum
Security Prison. She received her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College, her master’s degree from
Norwich University, and her doctoral degree from Columbia University Teachers College.
Continued »
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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS (continued)
DERRICK CAIN
Activist, Service Provider and Lecturer; Judicial Delegate, District 55
In 1995, Derrick Cain decided to take control of his destiny while serving a 15 to life sentence in New York
State correctional facilities. Derrick has been engaged in activism for the past 13 years and specializes in
social advocacy, criminal and social justice, and servicing the underserved. Derrick is a spoken word poet and
champions the cause for post-secondary education for those who are incarcerated. Derrick graduated from Bard
College and earned a Masters from the New York Theological seminary. Currently, he is the Intake Specialist
for the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund. He previously worked on Rikers Island, with The Center for Alternative
Sentencing, Madison Strategies and Grant Associates. He was featured in The New Yorker discussing punishment
versus education. In 2013, he entered politics was elected judicial delegate for District 55 in Brooklyn.
TERRANCE COFFIE, BSW
College Pathways Adviser, The Doe Fund
Terrance Coffie is a 2016 graduate of NYU, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Social Work and was
honored with both NYU’s President’s Service Award and NYU Silver School of Social Work’s Excellence in
Leadership Award. Currently a graduate student at the Silver School and intern at the McSilver Institute for
Poverty Policy and Research, Terrance developed NYU’s College Pathways Program, which assists young men of
color and the formerly incarcerated in obtaining higher educational opportunities, and has hosted and co-hosted
various events on and off campus. Terrance has committed his life to advocating for social justice, specifically
in regards to the criminal justice system. After years of selling drugs, homelessness and incarceration, Terrance
enrolled into Bronx Community College, from which he graduated with many honors in 2014. As a formerly
incarcerated person, Terrance relies heavily on his personal experiences of poverty and incarceration to address
the social inequalities that leads to Mass Incarceration.
DARRYL K. COOKE, BSW
Author, After the Bridge Was Crossed (A Journey of Thought)
Darryl K. Cooke is a nationally recognized speaker and author of the self-help family relations book After the
Bridge Was Crossed (A Journey of Thought). Darryl obtained his BSW from Governor’s State University in 2014
and is currently enrolled in the school’s MSW program. He is certified in Civic Reflection, Peace Circle Training,
and Restorative Justice. Mr. Cooke is a board member for Chrysalis Community Center in the South Suburbs
of Chicago and he focuses on conflict resolution through the use of Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT), which
allows him to assist in preventing relapses, recidivism, as well as help our youth live meaningful and productive
lives. Mr. Cooke is also a veteran of the USMC and he is the host of Darryl Cooke Live which airs on 106.3,
Chicago’s R&B, Sundays from 9-10pm. Mr. Cooke gives presentations and workshops on CBT all over the nation
with substance and alcohol abuse service providers. Mr. Cooke was a part of the Behind the Bars forum at
Columbia University in New York 2015 and was a presenter on Inclusion versus Exclusion at the Council of Social
Work Education Annual Program Meeting in 2014.
KHALIL CUMBERBATCH, MSW Manager of Trainings, JustLeadershipUSA
Khalil Cumberbatch is a formerly incarcerated advocate for social justice movements within the New York City
area. He has worked within the reentry community in New York City since 2010 when he was released after
serving almost seven years in the New York State prison system. Since his release, Khalil has worked with various
non-profits as a service provider, policy analyst, advisor, board member, collaborator, and consultant. Khalil
graduated from CUNY Herbert Lehman College’s MSW program in May 2014, where he was awarded the Urban
Justice Award for his work with underserved and marginalized communities that are negatively impacted by
mass incarceration as well as high poverty and unemployment rates, lack of access to quality education, and
other ineffective social “safety nets.” Khalil currently serves as Manager of Trainings at JustLeadershipUSA, a
national non-profit dedicated to cutting the US correctional population in half by year 2030.
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JERRY DAVIS-EL, BSW
Child and Adolescent Counselor
Jerry Davis-EL is a Child and Adolescent Counselor for probation juvenile detention and at risk children at an
alternative high school. He holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Governors State University (GSU) and
is currently pursuing a Masters of Social Work at GSU with a concentration in families and children. He won The
Illinois Student Laureate Award in 2015 for his civic engagement and excellence in curricular and extracurricular
activities. He has presented at various events and colleges across the country including the Council of Social
Work Education (CSWE) 59th Annual Program Meeting, the 20th Annual GSU Student Research Conference,
Kennedy-King College, and Columbia University (NYC) to name a few. Jerry is active in numerous organizations
at GSU and is particularly proud of the work he has done as a founding member of Generating Hope, which
supports, advocates for, and empowers GSU students who have been impacted my mass incarceration. For
almost 16 years, Jerry himself was trapped in a cycle of destruction. Jail, prison and the streets were his life, until,
on his birthday in 2010, while in prison, Jerry learned that his daughter was murdered. Jerry left prison a month
later determined that his daughter’s death would not be in vain, and vowing to make social injustice the cause he
would now dedicate his life towards.
SHAGASYIA DIAMOND
Community Organizer, Red Umbrella Project
Shagasyia Diamond is a Community Organizer at Red Umbrella Project, where her primary focus is programming
dealing with trans-related issues in the sex industry, and the individual empowerment of people of color. She
has a long history of advocacy for women in the sex trades, with a focus on victims of criminalization and
deportation. In October of 2015, she founded Project Connection, a trans-women’s support and advocacy group.
KEYNOTE: BAZ DREISINGER, PHD
Professor & Founding Academic Director, the Prison-to-College Pipeline Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Author of Incarcerated Nations
Dr. Baz Dreisinger works at the intersection of race, crime, culture and justice. She earned her PhD in English
from Columbia University, where she specialized in American and African-American studies. Her book Near
Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008) was featured in
the New York Times Book Review and on National Public Radio. She is the Founding Academic Director of John
Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which offers college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated
men at Otisville Correctional Facility, and broadly works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated
and formerly incarcerated individuals. Professor Dreisinger moonlights as a journalist and critic, writing about
Caribbean culture, race-related issues, travel, music and pop culture. Together with Oscar-nominated filmmaker
Peter Spirer, Professor Dreisinger produced and wrote the documentaries Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop
Cop, which investigates the New York Police Department’s monitoring of the hip-hop industry, and Rhyme &
Punishment, about hip-hop and the prison industrial complex. Professor Dreisinger’s book Incarceration Nations:
A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World was published in 2016 and was heralded by the New York
Times, Washington Post, NPR and many more.
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NANCY FRANKE, MSW
Director, Goldring Reentry Initiative, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice
Nancy Franke, MSW, is the Director of the Goldring Reentry Initiative (GRI), a program at Penn’s School of Social
Policy & Practice that works with people as they transition out of the Philadelphia Prison System and into the
community by having MSW interns provide therapeutic case management services pre- and post- release. Nancy
has worked with the GRI since 2012 where she has developed policies and procedures, supervised students, built
partnerships with various community agencies, and spoken on a variety of panels. Most recently Nancy has been
an advisor for Eastern State Penitentiary’s Returning Citizens Pilot Program and involved in the Philadelphia
Reentry Coalition. Nancy has her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania (2013) and a BA in religion and
philosophy from Gettysburg College (2006).
XENA GRANDICHELLI
Advocate, Sylvia Rivera Law Project/Jails Action Coalition
Xena Grandichelli is a longtime elder advocate in the transgender community. She has a paralegal Associate’s
degree in psychology, and is the oldest daughter of Sylvia Rivera, who was instrumental in the Stonewall Uprising
for LGBT rights. Xena is also a formerly incarcerated individual, and a co-leader in the Close Riker’s Island
Campaign. Xena is a Community Organizer in JustLeadershipUSA, Incarceration Nation, Jails Action Coalition,
The Sylvia River Law Project, Safe Outside The System Community Security Team, and Trans Justice at the Audre
Lorde Project.
VIVIANNE GUEVARA, MSW
Director of Client and Mitigation Services, Federal Defenders NY
Vivianne Guevara is the Director of Client and Mitigation Services at the Federal Defenders of New York in the
Eastern District. Prior to joining the Federal Defenders in 2012, Vivianne was an Investigator and Social Worker
at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. She also worked with clients individually to reduce
the impact of the collateral consequences that resulted from civil and criminal court involvement. Vivianne
began working in public defense in 2007 as a Social Worker at the Bronx Defenders, where she worked with
clients charged in domestic violence and mental health courts. While working toward her MSW, Vivianne was
an Outreach Specialist at The Bowery Residents’ Committee where she worked one-on-one with persistently
homeless individuals on the streets and in the subways of New York City. Vivianne is a graduate of NYU and
Columbia University School of Social Work. She holds a certificate in Restorative Justice and Restorative Circles
and received training from Kay Pranis, Planning Change, and the International Institute in Restorative Practices.
KIRK A. JAMES, DSW
Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Silver School Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Kirk A. James received his DSW from the University of Pennsylvania
and his MSW from Hunter College of The City University of New York. Dr. James focuses on deconstructing
issues of mass incarceration – specifically as it pertains to trauma, cognitive development, culpability, and the
examination of systems that foster and perpetuate racial injustice. He also launched the Silver School’s monthly
Mass Incarceration Conversation Series, which brings people impacted by mass incarceration together with
academics, activists, policy makers, and practitioners to create a more informed understanding and subsequent
response to mass incarceration. Dr. James’ dissertation, “The Invisible Epidemic in Social Work Academia,”
examined the complex phenomena of mass incarceration through a historical and contemporary lens. He
concluded by developing curricula for Master level students to increase awareness, activism and holistic practice
in the milieu. Courses developed from his dissertation have been implemented at Columbia University, Temple
University, City College, and the University of Pennsylvania amongst others.
SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS (continued)
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PATRICIA KIM, MFA; MSW
Social Work Intern, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Patricia Kim received her MFA from Columbia University and is teaching English Composition and Literature at
Baruch College while completing a novel. Her experience working with disadvantaged youth at the college level
inspired her to pursue an MSW at Columbia. Her paper on mass incarceration, titled What Must Be Undone, was
recently published in The Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. She lives in Brooklyn.
JOE MADONIA LCSW-R, CASAC
Director, Brooklyn Treatment Court
Joe Madonia is a graduate of NYU, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a Credentialed Alcohol and
Substance Abuse Counselor. He is currently the Director of the Brooklyn Treatment Court where he is
responsible for the implementation of policy and planning, oversight of clinical operations, management of
federal grants and supervision of staff. In this role, he also developed and implemented the Brooklyn Diversion,
Veterans and DWI courts. Mr. Madonia is currently the chairperson for Brooklyn Treatment Court’s Clinical
Advisory Board and the Brooklyn Veterans Stakeholder Board. He is also a member of the New York City Drug
Treatment Court Regional Work Group, committees for Best Practices on Young Adults and Veterans, and, in
2009, was appointed by Governor David Patterson to sit on the New York State Board for Medical Misconduct.
Mr. Madonia has conducted numerous trainings and workshops at the state and national levels, has served
on the curriculum development team for implementing veteran’s treatment courts in New York State, and is a
lecturer on trauma informed care for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Mr.
Madonia currently serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at NYU Silver School of Social Work and as a field instructor
for both NYU and Columbia University’s graduate social work programs. He also maintains a part-time private
psychotherapy practice in New York City, where he treats adolescents and young adults with substance abuse
and mental health disorders.
FIVE MUALIMM-AK
Founder and Director, Incarcerated Nation Corporation (INC)
Since his return to society, Five Mualimm-ak has worked to end state-funded torture and to dismantle the
prison industrial complex. Five has created numerous state-wide collective projects and helped to found the
Incarcerated Nation Corporation, a collective of people that all operate projects that serve those incarcerated,
previously incarcerated and their families. He is a justice scholar studying at Columbia University in New York,
is a founding leader of the Student Alliance for Prison Reform (SAPR), the nation’s largest student group, and
Princeton SPEAR (Student Prison Education and Reform). He sits on numerous boards and works with the United
Nations Anti-Torture Initiative, the US Human Rights Network, T’ruah - National Religious Campaign Against
Torture, and the ACLU as a human rights defender.
NICK MALINOWSKI, MSW
Advocacy Specialist, Brooklyn Defender Services
Born in Fishers Island, New York, Nick Malinowski is a social worker, writer and activist. He joined Brooklyn
Defender Services in October 2013 to support the organization’s policy, public education and community
outreach goals. Nick studied writing at Wesleyan University and received his MSW from Hunter College where he
dual-tracked in clinical practice and community organizing and specialized in criminal justice.
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KEYNOTE: GLENN E. MARTIN
Founder and President, JustLeadershipUSA
Glenn E. Martin is the Founder of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA), an organization dedicated to cutting the US
correctional population in half by 2030. JLUSA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy
reform. Glenn is a national leader and criminal justice reform advocate who spent six years in New York State
prisons. Prior to founding JLUSA, Glenn served for seven years as VP of Public Affairs at The Fortune Society,
and six years as Co-Director of the National HIRE Network at the Legal Action Center. Glenn is Co-Founder of
the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2012 America’s Leaders of Change
National Urban Fellow, and a member of the governing boards of the College and Community Fellowship, Million
Hoodies and the California Partnership for Safe Communities. Glenn also serves on Governor Cuomo’s Reentry
and Reintegration Council, the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration
Reform, the advisory board of the Vera Institute’s Public Health and Mass Incarceration Initiative, the National
Network for Safe Communities, the Executive Session on Community Corrections at Harvard University, and the
Global Advisory Council (GAC) of Cornerstone Capital Group.
Glenn has been an invited panelist at the White House, met with President Obama at an event focused on
criminal justice reform and received many prestigious honors and awards. He regularly contributes his expertise
to local and national news outlets such as MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NY1, Al Jazeera and CSPAN on topics such as
policing, de-carceration, alternatives to incarceration, and reentry issues.
TINA MASCHI, PHD
Associate Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Dr. Tina Maschi is an associate professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service in New
York City. She is a 2010 recipient of the competitive Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program
Award, which is funded by the Hartford Foundation and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). She is the
principal investigator for the research project, “Trauma, coping resources, and well-being among older adults
in prison.” Dr. Maschi has over 15 years of clinical social work and research experience in juvenile and criminal
justice settings and community mental health settings. She also is a professional musician and integrates the
use of creative arts interventions for improving well-being and feelings of community and empowerment among
diverse populations, including youth, older adults, women, and professionals in high stress positions. She is
currently coordinator of the Human Rights and Social Justice Course Sequence. She teaches research, practice,
and the foundation human rights and social justice courses at the Lincoln Center and Westchester Campuses at
the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.
CARL MAZZA, DSW, LMS
Associate Professor, Department Chair, Lehman College
Carl Mazza, DSW, LMSW is Associate Professor of Social Work at Lehman College of the City University of New
York as well as the Chair of the Social Work Department. Dr. Mazza is Past President of the New York State Social
Work Education Association and Former Chairperson of the Criminal & Juvenile Justice Track for the National
Council on Social Work Education. He has been recognized by the Urban Male Leadership Program of CUNY and
the African and African-American Studies Department of Lehman College for his years of service and dedication
to mentoring students; awarded Outstanding Service to Lehman College; and “Outstanding Peer Reviewer” from
the Journal of Social Work Education. Dr. Mazza has been named “Person of the Year” by the College Initiative
Program, a support program for people transitioning from prison into college and has received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from Hudson Link, a nonprofit agency providing college education to people incarcerated in
prison. He has published on incarcerated fathers, children of incarcerated parents, persons re-entering the larger
society from prison, practicing social work in prisons, and adolescent fathers. He serves on the board of directors
of several nonprofit social service agencies concerned with social and economic justice.
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ONAJE MUID, MSW, LMHC, CASAC, FDLC
Adjunct Lecturer, NYU Silver School of Social Work; Advisor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Clinical Associate Director, Reality House Inc.
Onaje Muid, MSW, LMHC, CASAC, FDLC specializes in creating culturally appropriate, trauma centered, social
justice human service systems to reverse historical trauma for oppressed populations. His 30-year counseling/
administration career in the addictions warranted his appointment to the New York State Association of
Substance Providers Board; the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault Board; and Columbia University
School of Social Work’s Community Participatory Research Board. He holds a graduate degree in social work
from SUNY: Stony Brook University; a license in mental health, a two credentials, one in substance counseling
and the other in family development, from New York State. He currently serves as the Clinical Associate Director
of Reality House Inc., an adjunct lecturer at NYU Silver School of Social Work, faculty member of the New
York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services Bureau of Talent Management and Performance
Improvement, and advisor for Columbia University School of Social Work. His avocation is that of human
rights, whereas, he served as the Non-Governmental Organization representative to the United Nations for the
International Human Rights Association for American Minorities, and was a delegate to the United Nations World
Conference Against Racism in South Africa in 2015.
DESMOND PATTON, PHD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Faculty Affiliate, Columbia University Social Intervention Group and Data Science Institute
Dr. Desmond Upton Patton is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and a
Faculty Affiliate of the Social Intervention Group and the Data Science Institute. His research utilizes qualitative
and computational data collection methods to examine how and why youth and gang violence, trauma, grief and
identity are expressed on social media and the real world impact they have on well-being for low-income youth
of color. His current research projects examine: how gang involved youth conceptualize threats on social media,
the extent to which social media shapes and facilitates youth and gang violence, developing an online tool for
detecting aggression in social media posts in partnership with the Data Science Institute at Columbia. Before
coming to Columbia in July of 2015, Dr. Patton was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School
of Social Work and School of Information. He received a BA in Anthropology and Political Science, with honors,
from the University of North Carolina- Greensboro, MSW from the University of Michigan School of Social Work
and PhD in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago.
MARLON PETERSON, BA
Founder, The Precedential Group
Marlon Peterson is a national social and criminal justice advocate, writer, organizational trainer, and educator
who spent 10 years in New York State prisons. He is the founder of The Precedential Group, a social justice
consulting firm, and a 2015 recipient of the prestigious Soros Justice Fellowship. During his incarceration he
collaborated with friend, author, and founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, Dr. Nadia Lopez, to create
a letter correspondence mentorship program with middle school students. This program laid the foundation
for HOLLA (How Our Lives Link Altogether), of which he was a co-founder. Since his release from prison in
December 2009, Marlon has held several nonprofit positions, including Director of Community Relations at
The Fortune Society, Associate Director of the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, and founding
coordinator of Youth Organizing to Save. Marlon currently serves as board chair of Families for Freedom and
is a board member of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. Marlon holds a Bachelor of Science from NYU with a
concentration in Organizational Behavior, and lives by the hashtag, #BePrecedential.
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CAMERON RASMUSSEN, LMSW
Program Director, Columbia University Center for Justice
Cameron Rasmussen is the Program Director at the Center for Justice at Columbia University and has worked
in program development, program management and direct service with individuals, families and communities
impacted by incarceration and the child welfare system for more than five years. He is committed to reimagining
our responses to human behavior and pathways to social justice and to contributing towards the larger
movement of an anti-oppressive social work practice. At the Center for Justice he has helped to develop
and manage a wide array of programming including the Rikers Education Program and the Beyond the Bars
Fellowship, he is one of the lead organizers of the annual Beyond the Bars Conference and is leading the
development of the Center’s newest project, Just Futures, a restorative justice program for incarcerated young
adults at Rikers Island. Before joining the Center he co-developed and coordinated the Televisiting Program for
Fathers at the Osborne Association, a program that allows children to video visit with their incarcerated father.
He is an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work where he received his MSW.
KINGSLEY ROWE, LMSW
Reentry Program Administrator, NYU Prison Education Program
Kingsley A. Rowe was born in Brooklyn and spent his adolescence in Philadelphia. At the age of 18, he was
sentenced to a minimum term of 8 to 20 years in prison resulting from his use of a handgun, which caused the
accidental death of a close friend. While incarcerated, Kingsley earned his Associates Degree from St. Francis
College (PA) Prison Program and made a commitment to become a productive citizen and give back to society,
particularly in inner-city communities. After being incarcerated for 10 years in Pennsylvania, he enrolled at NYU,
where he earned his BS in Information Systems Management. He went on to receive his MSW from NYU Silver
School of Social Work with the support of a Constance McCatherin Silver Fellowship. Kingsley has worked as a
social worker with many disenfranchised populations including LGBTQ youth and adults, impoverished families,
and adults living with serious mental illness; however, is helping individuals coming home from prison make the
successful transition to productive and contributing members of society through education. Kingsley draws
upon his experiences of incarceration and education as a cautionary tale about guns and as inspiration for those
looking to build a life after prison.
DWIGHT STEPHENSON, MSW
Family Services Specialist/Offender Workforce Development Specialist, Osborne Association Fatherhood Initiative
Over the past eight years, Dwight Stephenson has worked in the field of social work assisting various populations
in assessing and finding their strengths as well as a sense of balance within their lives. He has worked with
formerly incarcerated men and women; young men in the Alternatives to Incarceration population; homeless,
Black and Latino males seeking to make a successful transition from high school to college; as well as first
generation college students. Mr. Stephenson earned both his BS in Social Work and his MSW from Lehman
College. Mr. Stephenson works with the Osborne Association in the Fatherhood Initiative as a Family Services
Specialist/ Offender Workforce Development Specialist (OWDS). He conducts workshops and training for
Fatherhood Initiative participants, helps fathers increase their engagement with their children, and helps them
develop and understand the skills needed to enter/ or reenter the workforce.
COLBY THOMPSON
Artist, Author, Speaker and Activist, RAPP
Colby Thompson is an artist, author, speaker and activist who after spending 10 years in Bedford Hills
Correctional Facility for Women came to New York City to inspire and empower others who have been
imprisoned by anything in their lives. She is writing her first book, “Do As I Say, Not As I Did (Learning To Take
Our Own Advice)” and is launching a website and non-profit organization, Colby’SoulAcademy to empower
others. Her motto is “Changing lives from the inside out.”
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JOSHUA WARE
Social Work Intern, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Joshua Ware is an Arverne, Queens native who is currently enrolled in Hunter College’s Silberman School of
Social Work. He graduated from Hunter College with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. He has
spent time giving back to his community by working with youth who were matriculating into college. He has
also spent time working with youth organizations on projects like Participatory Budgeting and the building of a
community garden. He strongly believes in using the strengths of the community in order to bring change. This
belief presents itself in the way he approaches social work practice. Joshua’s ultimate goal is to give back to his
community in the most powerful way he knows how: building an agency that provides affordable therapeutic
services to adolescents and their families.
CHERYL WILKINS, MSW
Senior Director of Education and Programs, Columbia University Center for Justice
At Columbia University Cheryl Wilkins is the Senior Director of Education and Programs at the Center for Justice
where her work is committed to reducing the nation’s reliance on incarceration, developing new approaches
to safety and justice, and participating in the national and global conversation around developing effective
criminal justice policy. Cheryl is also an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and is
instrumental in developing the Justice in Education Prison Program, a project that is partnering with Hudson Link
and Marymount Manhattan programs where Columbia University professors are teaching inside Bedford Hills,
Taconic, and Sing Sing Correctional Facilities. In the community, Cheryl is a consultant for Healing Community
Network, a program which offers support groups inside prison as well as in the community. Cheryl’s area of
research has been Changing Minds: the Impact that College Has on Women in a Maximum Security Prison and
Women on the Road to Health, a study that looks at the best way to provide an intervention to women who are
at high risk to contract HIV/AIDS.
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