Health Equity Now: Ending Police Violence
This panel will bring together perspectives from the public health field, critical researcher and community justice movements. Topics and discussion include: how ending law enforcement violence is essential to achieving health equity and justice, reimagining and redefining public health frameworks for investment/divestment in policing community power and community safety approaches, and the role of public health infrastructure in shifting conditions of law enforcement violence.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing PANEL: Willie Thomas, Justice for Steven Rosenthal campaign, Chicago Asantewaa RN Boykin, Anti Police-Terror Project Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson, Frontline Wellness Network, Justice LA Pedro Rios, American Friends Service Committee Steven Osuna, CSULB, Historian of LAPD Aundrey Jones, UCSD , Ethnic Studies Gloria Verdieu, Committee Against Police Brutality-San Diego