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Children, Not Criminals: Rethinking School Discipline. 9/24 at the Brooklyn Museum. 2pm.

Hear from national and local advocates and practitioners about the school-to-prison pipeline and learn about their innovative alternatives.

With school suspensions and in-school arrests representing the primary pathways to the criminal justice system for young women and men of color, it's increasingly clear that nonpunitive disciplinary alternatives are essential for social and racial justice in our schools and communities. The panel will discuss their innovative alternatives to combat this crisis.

Panelists include Fania Davis, a leading national voice on restorative justice and co-founder and Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oaklnd Youth (RJOY); Monique Morris, co-counder of the Natinal Black Women's Justice Institute and author of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools; and Ashley Ellis, Restorative Justice Coordinator, Good Shepherd Services. Moderated by Cecilia Clarke, President, Brooklyn Community Foundation.

Part of the ongoing Sackler Center series "States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children, and People of Color."

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Free with Museum admission

Event will be held in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium

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