Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, And 2 Spirit (MMIWG2S): A Crisis Rooted In The Continuation of Colonial Injustice

Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1345
@ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
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This talk focuses on the intersections of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women/Relatives (MMIW/R) that impact health and wellbeing of Indigenous people and their communities including historical and contemporary roots of the MMIW/R crisis; practice implications for helper/ healer professions when working with survivors and their families; what the Wisconsin MMIW/R Taskforce is doing to address it.

‘Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change’

Gordon Commons 770 W Dayton St Overture Room Madison, WI 53706
@ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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University of Wisconsin Law School welcomes journalist Ben Austen for a discussion of his new book, "Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change." The book examines the parole process through the stories of two Illinois men convicted of homicide as teenagers in the 1970s. Austen will be in conversation with John Tate ll, former chairperson of the Wisconsin Parole Commission; Dant’e Cottingham, interim associate director of Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing; Emma Shakeshaft, staff attorney at ACLU of Wisconsin; and Kate Finley, clinical associate professor at UW Law School, about parole and the possibility of second chances.