The Honorable Lori E. Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, discussed criminal justice reform. The event was moderated by Cheryl Corley, NPR National Correspondent, and included a panel discussion with Nikki Jones, Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley, and Cid Martinez, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Diego.
Stephen Small, Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley provided an overview of the series. Teresa Córdova, Director of the Great Cities Institute and Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, introduced the event.
This event was part of a series presented by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, as well as the Great Cities Institute at the University of Chicago at Illinois.
The series was co-sponsored by: Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, African American Mayors Association, National Urban League, California Association of Black Lawyers, Charles Houston Bar Association, Litigation Division of the California Bar Association, Equal Justice Society, City Club of Chicago, Executives’ Club of Chicago, the Chicago Community Trust, Metropolitan Family Services of Chicago, Communities Partnering 4 Peace, Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, Strides for Peace, and WBGO-FM (Newark).
For more about the series, visit https://issi.berkeley.edu/BlackMayors
