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DESCRIPTION:\n	Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its s
 ignature weekly series this fall\,&nbsp\;The Fierce Urgency of Now\,&nbsp\
 ;featuring Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color scholars\, activists\, and
  community leaders\, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilit
 ated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse\, the series also aligns with a cou
 rse they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic
  Justice: Theory and Practice.\n\n\n\n	This panel of distinguished changema
 kers will discuss economic justice concerns in the United States\, particu
 larly as they affect Black and Brown communities. \n\n\n\n	Panelists:&nbsp\
 ;\n\n\n\n	\n		Margaret Huang |&nbsp\;President\, Southern Poverty Law Center
 \n	\n	\n		Priscilla Ocen |&nbsp\;Professor of Criminal Law\, Loyola Law School
 \n	\n	\n		Sushma Raman (Moderator) | Executive Director\, Carr Center&nbsp\;\n
 	\n\n\n\n	Margaret Huang is an advocate for human rights and racial justice 
 for 25 years\, is the president and chief executive officer of the Souther
 n Poverty Law Center. Throughout her career\, Huang has championed social 
 justice and human dignity\, advocating against discrimination and oppressi
 on in all of its forms. Prior to the Southern Poverty Law Center\, Margare
 t served as the executive director of Amnesty International USA\, where sh
 e was responsible for leading campaigns to protect the human rights of mig
 rants and refugees\, torture survivors\, gun violence victims\, and activi
 sts and protestors across the globe. Under her leadership\, the organizati
 on developed a number of new initiatives on innovation and learning\; incl
 usion\, diversity\, equity and accessibility\; and monitoring and evaluati
 on\, while growing organizational financial resources by more than fifty p
 ercent over four years.\n\n\n\n	Priscilla Ocen&nbsp\;is a Professor of Law 
 at Loyola Law School\, where she teaches criminal law\, family law and a s
 eminar on race\, gender and the law. &nbsp\;Her work explores the ways in 
 which race\, gender and class interact to render women of color vulnerable
  to various forms of violence and criminalization.&nbsp\;Her writing has a
 ppeared in academic journals such as the&nbsp\;California Law Review\, the
 &nbsp\;UCLA Law Review\, the George Washington Law Review\, the&nbsp\;UC D
 avis Law Review&nbsp\;and the&nbsp\;Du Bois Review&nbsp\;as well as popula
 r media outlets such as&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;Atlantic Magazine\,&nbsp\;Los Ange
 les Daily Journal\,&nbsp\;Ebony&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;Al Jazeera.&nbsp\; Ocen re
 ceived the inaugural PEN America Writing for Justice Literary Fellowship a
 nd served as a 2019-2020 Fulbright Fellow\, based out of Makerere Universi
 ty School of Law in Kampala\, Uganda\, where she studied the relationship 
 between gender-based violence and women’s incarceration.\n\n\n\n	&nbsp\;Sus
 hma Raman&nbsp\;is the Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rig
 hts Policy. She brings over&nbsp\; &nbsp\;two decades of global experience
  launching\, scaling\, and leading social justice and philanthropic&nbsp\;
  &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;programs and collaboratives\, building cap
 abilities of grassroots human rights organizations and their&nbsp\; &nbsp\
 ; &nbsp\;leaders\, and teaching graduate courses in the public policy scho
 ols at UCLA\, USC\, and Harvard&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Kennedy School. Sushma has w
 orked at the Ford Foundation\, where she helped launch and scale&nbsp\; &n
 bsp\;social justice and women’s funds around the world\, and at the Open S
 ociety Foundation\, where she&nbsp\; &nbsp\;was a Program Officer on the f
 ounding staff for US Programs. Sushma is the co-author\, along with Bill&n
 bsp\; &nbsp\;Schulz (former executive director of Amnesty International US
 A and Carr Center Senior Fellow)\, of the book&nbsp\;The Coming Good Socie
 ty: Why New Realities Demand New Rights\, released by Harvard University P
 ress in June 2020. This forward-looking book examines the coming changes t
 o the human rights landscape and argues that rights must adapt to new tech
 nological and scientific realities or risk being consigned to irrelevance.
 \n\n\n\n	Virtual Event DetailsThis event will be livestreamed on YouTube Li
 ve. Attendees registered for this event (link below) will receive a remind
 er for the livestream fifteen minutes before the event along with a link t
 o the YouTube page where you can participate in the live chat and ask ques
 tions during the event.\n\n\n\n	&nbsp\;\n\n
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LOCATION:Virtual Event (Registration Required)
SUMMARY:Economic Justice: Building Movements in the United States 
URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/fierce-urgency-now-we
 binar-series-economic-justice-building-movements-united-states
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