From the Ground Up: Self-Determination & Local Autonomy in the Fight Against Poverty

 

Tentative Schedule of Events 

*Additional panelists will be added on an ongoing basis 

 

9:30am – Doors open

Breakfast and coffee 

 

10:00am – Opening remarks 

 

10:15am – Panel: Trump 2.0, Public Benefits, and the Politics of Blame

Eric Angel, Executive Director, DC Greens

Teresa Miller, National Director of Health Initiatives, Legal Action Center 

Dr. Christopher King, Dean, Georgetown University School of Health 

Moderated by: Yael Cannon, Professor of Law and Director of the Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center

 

11:15am – Panel: Intersection Between Immigration Enforcement, Food Production, & Labor Protections 

Diego Iñiguez-López, Director of Government Affairs, UFW Foundation

Alison Deich, Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll

Mark Rosenbaum, Senior Special Counsel for Strategic Litigation, Public Counsel

Elizabeth Falcon, Executive Director, DC Jobs with Justice

Moderated by: Jamillah Bowman Williams, Professor of Law and Founding Faculty Director of the Georgetown Workers’ Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law Center

 

12:00pm –  Community-based engagement and Advocacy Opportunities 

 

Lunch 

 

1:15pm – Keynote Address 

Corey Shaw Jr., Historian & Reparations Advocate, Empower DC 

 

2:00pm – Panel: Punishment vs. Care: Law, Resource Allocation, and Carceral Infrastructure

Craig Muhammad, Co-founder, Project Emancipation Now 

Brittany Mobley, Deputy Chief, Juvenile Services Program, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia

Leigh Goodmark, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Christy Lopez, Professor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center

Moderated by: Craig Watson, Peer Support Specialist, Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop 

 

3:00pm – Panel: Organizing to Resist Authoritarianism and Reclaim Community Control

Bradley Girard, Senior Counsel, Democracy Forward

Daniel Del Pielago, Housing Director, Empower DC

Keya Chatterjee, Executive Director, Free DC

Moderated by: Steven Vladeck, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts, Georgetown University Law Center 

 

3:45pm – Closing Remarks