USC PEP family:

Please use this form to RSVP for the third and final talk in our  "PEP Talks" conversation series this spring. Upon completing this form, you will promptly receive the link to our Zoom broadcast via email. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Topic: Repairing the Harms of the War on Drugs

Time: Tuesday, April 20th, 6pm - 7:30pm PDT

Panelists:

Ingrid Archie (she/her)
A former resident of A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL), now working with ANWOL full time advocating for other formerly incarcerated individuals. Since 2016, Ingrid has lk. ed voter registration, education, and civic engagement efforts with LA's African American and lower income communities and inside LA County jails. She is a co-facilitator for Women Organizing for Justice and Opportunity (WOJO), A New Way of Life's leadership training program for formerly incarcerated women.

Adam Vine (he/him)
The co-founder of Cage-Free Cannabis and its nonprofit arm Cage-Free Repair (in 2017), now running their day-to-day operations. The Cage-Free project builds in his career at the intersection of advocacy, media, and politics. He has coordinated youth-led protests in Los Angeles, mentored high school students in Washington D.C, and produced campaign ads for non-profits and progressive candidates, among other things. He's been a cannabis consumer and patient for more than 20 years.

Felicia Carbajal (they/them)
A Los Angeles based queer Latinx organizer, strategist, and social entrepreneur with over two decades of movement building experience within intersectional communities. Currently Felicia is the director of LA based The Social Impact Center, withers their first hand experience as a formerly incarcerated person shapes the movement to actively dismantle all systems of oppression. They are an appointed assembly district delegate to the California Democratic Party and are on the advisory boards of Cage-Free Cannabis, Chama Roots Collective and Black and Pink. They love their wife, life, and freedom.

Tiffiny Townend Blacknell (she/her)
A Los Angeles native and graduate of USC Law School. She worked as a deputy public defender fro 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 justice issues. In March of 2021, she was hired as the special advisor to the LA District Attorney George Gascon. She has also been hired to act as a community and government liaison.

Please direct any questions to G Bajaj at guraseeb@usc.edu.