Azadeh Zohrabi
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Azadeh brings over 10 years of experience working with and advocating for incarcerated people and their families to her current position as national campaigner at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Prior to joining the team, Azadeh was a Soros Justice Fellow and served on the legal team representing Pelican Bay prisoners in their class action lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement.
Presentations from Facing Race 2014
Building a Community Led Movement to End Mass Incarceration
Research can be a vehicle for unearthing stories in order to fuel the resistance to the oppression we face. This workshop will explore how individuals and organizations throughout the country are examining and using community participatory research to illuminate and demystify the reality of the cradle to prison pipeline and the grave impacts of incarceration on individuals, families, and communities -- humanizing research and the lives of participants in the process. This highly interactive workshop is geared towards those who are actively engaged in working with young people and dismantling the prison industrial complex.
Speakers: Patrisse Cullors, DeAngelo Bester, Milan Alexander, Alicia Walters, Azadeh Zohrabi, Kennadi Robinson, Ashley Triggs