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Color of Violence 4: Beyond the State: Inciting Transformative Possibilities
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Thursday, March 26 • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Ending Gender Violence Beyond Carceral Feminisms

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Opening Performance: IL Kwa Nori & Oo-Ri So-Ri

Welcome: Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, INCITE! co-founder
Chi-Nations Introduction & Song
Moderator, Mariame Kaba, Project Nia & Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander & Andrea Ritchie, INCITE!

Ashley Yates, #BlackLivesMatter & Ferguson Action
Shira Hassan, Just Practice & Young Women's Empowerment Project
Soniya Munshi, INCITE! national collective
Nada Elia, US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), INCITE!
Reina Gossett, filmmaker, Activist Fellow at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women
Andy Smith, INCITE! co-founder
Rasmea Odeh, Arab American Action Network

Moderators
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Mariame Kaba

Project NIA
Mariame Kaba is the founding director of Project NIA (www.project-nia.org), a grassroots organization with the long-term goal of ending youth incarceration. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, and supporting youth leadership development... Read More →
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Andrea Ritchie

Andrea Ritchie, INCITE!/Soros Justice Fellow. Andrea Ritchie is a Black police misconduct organizer in New York City whose research, writing, organizing and advocacy work focuses on the profiling and policing of women, girls, and LGBT people of color. She coordinated and coauthored... Read More →

Speakers
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Nada Elia

Nada Elia is a Palestinian Diaspora activist whose work focuses on grassroots responses to institutionalized systems of oppression, especially settler-colonialism, ethno-nationalism, militarism, and heteropatriarchy.  She served on INCITE's Steering Collective from 2005-2010, and... Read More →
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Reina Gossett

Reina Gossett is a activist, writer, and artist and the 2014-2016 Activist-In-Residence at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women.   As the membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project from 2010 to 2014, Reina worked to lift the voice and power of trans and... Read More →
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Shira Hassan

Just Practice
Shira Hassan is an East Coast born, Chicago based QPOC organizer who lives & works at the intersection of Transformative Justice and Harm Reduction.
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Soniya Munshi

Soniya Munshi works to creatively address the intersections of intimate violence and state violence in desi, queer & trans, and/or people of color communities in her hometown of New York City, and beyond. She teaches sociology and Asian American Studies at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan... Read More →
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Rasmea Odeh

Arab American Action Network
Rasmea is a leading organizer of the Arab Women's Committee, a grassroots committee o working for access to resources and social justice for 600 Arab immigrant and refugee women in Chicago. Rasmea Odeh is also a 67 year old Palestinian American community leader who was tortured by... Read More →
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Beth Richie

Beth E. Richie is The Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at The University of Illinois at Chicago. The emphasis of her scholarly and activist work has been on the ways that... Read More →
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Andy Smith

Andrea Smith is a co-founder of INCITE!.
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Ashley Yates

Ashley Yates is an organizer, writer and community advocate from Florissant, Missouri. As a member of the St Louis community Ashley was an early responder to the tragic murder of Michael Brown Jr on August 9th, 2014. She has been active in both on the ground protests and strategic... Read More →

Artists
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Chi-Nations

Chi-Nations Youth Council was created in 2012 and is comprised of a diverse group of youth and adults, with a mission to create a supportive open environment for Native Youth, to raise awareness of cultural identity and promote a healthy lifestyle through arts, activism, and education... Read More →
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IL Kwa Nori & Oo-Ri So-Ri

IL Kwa Nori is a Chicago youth poongmul (Korean drumming) group, literally meaning Work and Play Teen, who use traditional Korean drumming in order to play a more active leadership role in Chicago immigrant communities through cultural and educational activism. They are joined by... Read More →

Thursday March 26, 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
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