Upcoming RCENJC Meeting:
Monday, May 5th 6:30 - 8:20 PM
Monday, May 5th 6:30-8:20pm
6:30 – 6:40 • Opening - Chairperson
Code of Conduct & Stack – Terri Thal
Land Acknowledgment – Petra
Language Translation Option – Andres
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6:40 – 6:50 • Dilcia Suazo, Proyecto Faro: Update immigration Issues + note on barriers immigrants have for sexual violence (sv) + noncarceral community resources to support them in healing​
6:50 – 7:25 • Juliana Roth, writer, filmmaker, professor, and activist/survivor of sv & higher ed grooming. Topic: intersectional issues of sexual violence, sexual violence in policing and prisons, defining restorative and transformative justice perspectives
on survivor justice vs carceral feminism, visions for survivor centered change.​
7:25 – 7:45 • Dr. Monika Son, former Assistant Professor, Chair, and Director of the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, trained psychologist, Buddhist Chaplin, and Embodied Leadership Coach/trauma informed relational facilitator. Topic: reading from her essay “Reconciling
Everyday Heartbreak and Rage with Possibility,” followed by a discussion of forgiveness, self-resourcing, and what it means to bear witness.
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7:45 – 8:00 • Questions/Discussion
8:00 – 8:05 • Trauma-Informed Moment of Grounding led by Jamie Surya.
8:05 – 8:10 • Action Summary, Bryan
8:10 – 8:20 • Announcements, Rena Finkelstein
Meeting Protocol
Rigorous discussions and debates are hallmarks of any civil rights organization. Learning and growing together allows us to develop a more unified perspective that prepares us to fight for our rights. We welcome input from each person present in our meetings. We expect our interactions to be conducted with civility and respect, as individuals committed to the same struggle.
Bias, discrimination and harassment are prohibited. Actions such as verbal or non-verbal abuse, negative stereotyping of any group, sexual and gender-based epithets or slurs, denigrating jokes, and calling out specific individuals constitute misconduct and are not welcomed.
Stack System
To ensure that everyone who chooses to speak is heard, we ask that presenters (those listed in the agenda) not be interrupted during their presentations. Immediately after each presentation, we will "take stack," which means that people interested in speaking about the presentation (asking questions, making comments) can raise their hands to be added to a list and they will be invited to speak. The stack system is a democratic way of ensuring that as many voices as possible are heard, without one person or group dominating a discussion.
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Together we can remain positive and hopeful as we work to End The New Jim Crow.