Event Details:

Join Michelson 20MM on March 29, 2023, to delve into the potential solutions as we discuss California’s Best Practices For Formerly Incarcerated Students Thriving on Campus. During the event, directly impacted leaders will explore how educational institutions can best support students in order to ensure their success.

Over 1,000 formerly incarcerated students are enrolled in the California Community Colleges (CCC), California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC) campuses, based on the Campaign for College Opportunity’s estimate. Of the 650,000 incarcerated individuals and individuals on parole and probation in CA, only 20,000 are accessing higher education—meaning only 3% of this population are able to utilize the already limited number of educational resources available to them.

California public postsecondary educational systems can and must do more in order to ensure justice-impacted students can access degree programs and succeed on campus by implementing practices designed to address the unique challenges these students face.

Learn more and register for the event here.

Speakers:

DR. JAMES BINNALL
Executive Director, Project Rebound, CSU Long Beach

HECTOR CERVANTES
Director, Underground Scholars, UC Irvine

JENNIFER GOMEZ
Program Coordinator, UC Irvine, Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees (LIFTED)

JOE LOUIS HERNANDEZ
Director, Rising Scholars, Mt. San Antonio College

Moderated by:
KENIA MIRANDA VERDUGO
Program Manager, Smart Justice, Michelson 20MM

California’s Best Practices: Pathways From Prison to College, created by The Smart Justice Think Tank, provides a set of detailed strategies that stakeholders can implement to support students across three key phases of the carceral system-impacted student experience.