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KATIE BOFSHEVER

Design Partner, GV

As VP of Digital Media at GV, Katie Bofshever crafts innovative and creative solutions for the digital space, specializing in minority consumers.

2:00pm

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Lightning Talks on Business Goals

Learn to understand and tackle problems from many different points of view. Discussions should highlight business goals, success metrics, technical capabilities and potential challenges, and relevant user research.

Free Grace

Date

12
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August 
2020
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3:00pm

About

Join us, The National Black Women's Justice Institute and The Mentoring Center on Facebook Live for a virtual conversation on XYZ.

 

WHEN: August 12, 2020 | 12:00 PT/ 3:00 ET

WHERE: NBWJI Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/nationalblackwomensjusticeinstitute


Venue

Cost

Free

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The Minimal NYC

Introducing The Minimal NYC. An app that connects you to people who are willing to trade lives. For real. Ever wonder what it’d be like to be a music teacher in Nashville? A children’s book illustrator in Brooklyn? A human rights activist in DC?


It’s a social network that facilitates real life swaps: you go to someone’s city, live in their home, hang with their friends and family, do their jobs, attend their events and activities. Yes, it’s totally intense… and it’s totally thrilling. Call us crazy, but we don’t think the best memories are made in the comfort zone.

 
Come check us out at the party (and sign up for The Minimal NYC account at one of our stations while you’re at it). Bottom line: it’s a startup launch. Good times will be had by all.

#ASpaceforGrace

In the midst of a global pandemic, "Grace", a 15-year-old Black girl was remanded to a youth detention center for failing to complete her online homework, a violation of the conditions of her probation. At an early release hearing, the judge told Grace that, "she was right where she needed to be" and was "blossoming" in detention. Thanks to advocacy and organizing, Grace is finally at home with her mother. But Grace's experience is not unique. Her case brings to light the numerous ways in which our juvenile legal system fails our girls, often opting to subject them to excessive punishment rather than provide support and resources that nurture their growth and development.


Please join the National Black Women's Justice Institute (NBWJI) and The Mentoring Center™ as we discuss the significant harm that the juvenile legal system poses to Black girls and their families and what needs to change.

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PANEL

Dr. Sydney McKinney | MODERATOR 

Executive Director, National Black Women's Justice Institute

As Executive Director of The National Black Women's Justice Institute, Dr. McKinney offers a strong commitment to public service, justice reform, and using research to advocate for our most vulnerable youth, families, and communities. A seasoned leader and expert in child welfare and justice system reform, Dr. McKinney leads the Institute in rigorous research and capacity building to transform the current system and promote policy change that centers and uplifts the voices and experiences of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. 

Celsa L. Snead, J.D., M.P.P. | Featured Guest 

Executive Director, The Mentoring Center and Founder of EMERGE

As Executive Director, Ms. Snead provides expertise on the issues of youth development, juvenile justice, youth re-entry, mentoring as a violence prevention strategy, and gender- specific services and policy for boys and men of color and for systems-impacted girls and young women. She has appeared several local and national television and radio news shows, and in print media on the issues of youth violence, mentoring and gender-specific services for girls in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.

Falilah Bilal, MA | Featured Guest

Senior Trainer, National Black Women's Justice Institute

Falilah “Aisha” Bilal has worked joyously for over 30 years creating innovative, relevant evidence based strategies to transform, empower and develop individuals, systems, organizations and contemporary thought.
Ms. Bilal’s work is centered in healing practices, empowering youth, self-discovery and issues that systemically impact groups of people. Ms. Bilal specializes in the field of youth development, healing informed organizational development, and strategic fundraising consultation.

Isis Sapp-Grant, LMSW | featured guest

Founder, Blossom Programs for Girls ® and When Black Girls Blossom and Board Member, National Black Women's Justice Institute

Isis Sapp-Grant is a nationally recognized expert on youth gang violence, gender-responsive programming, youth development and delinquency.

Isis’s transformation from gang leader to community leader, led her founding of the Youth Empowerment Mission (YEM) in 1998, where she served as the Executive Director until 2010.  During that time Isis also created  the Blossom Program for Girls, a community based gender responsive alternative program to address the very unique needs of girls and young women in crisis.  Blossom became the first program in NYC to provide a safe community alternative that centered Black girls and other girls of color who would otherwise be incarcerated, expelled from school or petitioned for PINS. Isis is committed to making sure that every girl has the opportunity to blossom.

ABOUT THE HOSTS

About National Black Women's Justice Institute

 

 

The National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI) aims to eliminate racial and gender disparities in the U.S. criminal legal system that are responsible for its disproportionate impact on Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people. We engage in rigorous research and capacity building in order to transform the current system and promote policy change that centers and uplifts the voices and experiences of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. We seek to dismantle the punitive paradigm driving the U.S. criminal legal system and build, in its place, pathways to healing and opportunity.

 

Visit NBWJI's Website

 

About the Mentoring Center

 


The Mentoring Center exists to move all youth, whatever challenges they are facing, toward healthy, successful lives, by providing support, love, and opportunities for self-mastery.
 The Mentoring Center is a nationally-recognized resource that creates and influences policy; builds the capacity of others serving youth through training; and develops and disseminates Transformative Mentoring™ practices and tools.

 

Visit The Mentoring Center's Website

Agenda

9:00am

Understand

Lightning Talks on Business Goals

Attend small group workshops about mobile ads, mobile responsive site and mobile app development. Learn about the rapid rise of mobile browsing (and what that means to us) in our interactive globe installation. And hear from Faizaam Ghauri , Founder of The Minimal NYC, about how to get caught up -- and then get ahead.

10:25am

Define

Jessica Annas Defines the User Journey

We’re capturing more data than ever before. And we’re doing it more precisely. But we’re still not using data to its full potential. Used well, numbers can teach us about each other, inspire our creativity and help us take risks and innovate in our work.

12:00pm

Diverge

Ashton Ajayi Discusses Diverge Methods

Ashton Ajayi of Pixel Palace will explain how marketers can use our insights and knowledge about the customer to influence and improve the bigger business strategy.

1:15pm

Decide

Chris Logan Reviews Decide Methods

Everyone’s focusing on it, but it’s not a focused word. What does it mean exactly? Why does it matter? And how do we do it right? Attend small group workshops about mobile ads, mobile responsive site and mobile app development. 

“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”

Louis Kahn

The Minimal NYC

Architect

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