September 21, 2009
Social Justice Monday: Voting Rights in Washington State
12:00 p.m.
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12:50 p.m.
Location: Room C5
Panelists include: Joaquin Avila, Executive Director of the National Voting Rights Advocacy Initiative and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Seattle University School of Law, who will discuss the history and importance of voting rights; Juan Vega, Voter Registration Campaign Manager of a grassroots criminal justice reform organization (JusticeWorks!) who will discuss the organization's effort to register previously incarcerated persons with felony convictions through a massive voter registration drive; and Emily Gause, SU Law 2L and President of the Criminal Justice Society who will explain how Seattle University law students are collaboration with JusticeWorks! and its Voter Registration Campaign.
For more information, please contact ATJI Program Assistant James Tan at tanj@seattleu.edu.
Social Justice Mondays is an organized, weekly series that aims to create a forum to bring awareness and encourage discussion about the many issues that surround the idea of "social justice" in order to help strengthen the social justice community of students, faculty and staff at the law school.
Please note that if you are unable to attend a Social Justice Mondays event, most events will be audio-recorded and available online.
Social Justice Mondays is brought to you by the Access to Justice Institute, the Social Justice Coalition, the Student Bar Association, and the Center for Global Justice.