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Black Mayors & Leadership in the United States – Lori Lightfoot

Name: Black Mayors & Leadership in the United States – Lori Lightfoot
Start: 2021-03-04T14:00:00-06:00
End: 2021-03-04T16:00:00-06:00
Location: Zoom

March 4, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm CST

Free with Registration

The Honorable Lori E. Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago

Criminal Justice Reform

Thursday, March 4, 2021 | 12-1:30 Pacific Time (2-3:30 Central Time)

“We can and will make [every U.S. city] a place where your ZIP code doesn’t determine your destiny.”

Zoom Webinar | Register here (free) for March 4 event.

Introduction by: Teresa Córdova, Director, Great Cities Institute, and Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago

Panel discussion moderated by Cheryl Corley, NPR national correspondent

Panelists

Nikki Jones, Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Cid Martinez, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of San Diego

For speaker bios for this event, click here.

These events are free and open to the public. If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) in order to fully participate in this virtual event, please contact issi@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible.

The series is sponsored 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 is co-sponsored by: African American Mayors Association, National Urban League, California Association of Black Lawyers, Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, Equal Justice Society, City Club of Chicago, Metropolitan Family Services, The Chicago Community Trust, Metropolitan Family Services of Chicago, Communities Partnering for Peace, Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, and Strides for Peace.