BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop,Event Highlights DESCRIPTION:Join the Dornsife Prison Education Project in a discussion on t he war on drugs with three activists on the frontlines of policy and advoca cy.\n\nAs more and more states legalize and the country as a whole moves to ward federal legalization what do we do for those harmed by criminal convic tions for marijuana possession? How do we create equitable systems around d rug policy moving forward? Please join Ingrid Archie\, Adam Vine\, and Feli cia Carbajal in thinking through these questions and more in our last PEP T ALK of the semester.\n\nIngrid Archie is a former resident of A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL) and now works full time for ANWOL\, advocating for other formerly incarcerated individuals. Ingrid was the first person i n the state of California to petition for a reclassification of her convict ion under Prop. 64\, which legalized cannabis in 2016. She also benefited f rom a Prop. 47 felony reduction\, which led to her becoming A New Way of Li fe’s public face for the law\, teaching community members how to obtain a r ecord change and helping them understand the benefits of doing so. Since 20 16\, Ingrid has led voter registration\, education\, and civic engagement e fforts within LA’s African American and lower income communities and inside LA County jails. And she is a co-facilitator for Women Organizing for Just ice and Opportunity (WOJO)\, A New Way of Life’s leadership training progra m for formerly incarcerated women. She is also an integral part of Californ ians for Safety and Justice’s #TimeDone campaign\, which works to end the c ollateral consequences of having a conviction.\n\nFelicia Carbajal is a Los Angeles-based\, queer Latinx organizer\, strategist\, and social entrepren eur with over two decades of movement building experience within intersecti onal communities. Currently Felicia is the Executive Director of LA based T he Social Impact Center\, where their first hand experience as a formerly i ncarcerated person shapes the movement to actively dismantle all systems of oppression. They’re a sought after public speaker and thought leader on th e subjects of equity\, economic development\, marijuana/cannabis and inters ectional community building. They are an appointed Assembly District Delega te to the California Democratic Party and they are also on the advisory boa rds of Chama Roots Collective and Black and Pink. They love their wife\, li fe\, and freedom.\n\nAdam Vine co-founded Cage-Free Cannabis and its non-pr ofit arm\, Cage-Free Repair\, in 2017\, and now runs their day-to-day opera tions. The Cage-Free project builds on his career at the intersection of ad vocacy\, media\, and politics. Criminal justice reform and drug policy refo rm have been his core areas of focus since 2012. He has coordinated youth-l ed protests in Los Angeles\, mentored high school students in Washington\, DC\, and produced campaign ads for non-profits and progressive candidates\, among other things. He's been a cannabis consumer and patient for more tha n 20 years.\n\nTiffiny Townend Blacknell is a native of Los Angeles and a g raduate of USC Law School. She worked as a Deputy Public Defender for over 18 years and has handled misdemeanor cases\, juvenile adjudications as well as complex serious felonies. Tiffiny is passionate about criminal justice reform and appears regularly in panel discussions surrounding criminal just ice issues. In March of 2021\, she was hired as the Special Advisor to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon. She has been hired to act as a Com munity and Government Liaison. DTEND:20210421T023000Z DTSTAMP:20260411T060634Z DTSTART:20210421T010000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:PEP TALKS: Repairing the Harm of the War on Drugs UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_36413162453912 URL:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/pep_talks_repairing_the_harm_of_the_war_ on_drugs END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR