When the Law Is not the Law:
Part 2

Join our discussion on When the Law is not the Law, our panel will explain how the heightened and restricted measures to limit voting rights, women rights over their bodies, the active censorship of books by authors of colors and the erasure of Black, Brown, Native American and other disenfranchised group history is ignoring human rights inherent to a democratic society. The overt dismantling of these rights diminishes our individual and collective rights when our rights are violated.

MEET THE PANELISTS

Esmeralda Simmons Esq.

Founder and former director, The Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College; Creative Justice Initiative Board Member.

Juan Cartagena

President & General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF

Isis Rakia Mattei, Esq.

Principal, Mattei Law; Creative Justice Initiative Board Member.

Monifa Bandele

Chief Equity and Strategy Officer at MomsRising, she co-leads a national on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people working to achieve economic security and justice for moms, women, and families.

Marta Moreno Vega

Recognized globally as a scholar, producer, activist, educator, author, professor and Yoruba priestess. Second Director of El Museo del Barrio, Founder of Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Founder and President of Creative Justice Initiative, and Co-founder of Corredor Afro.