DeAngelo Bester
Workers Center for Racial Justice
DeAngelo has worked as a community and labor organizer for over 10 years. He has led various campaigns to advance racial justice in educational equity, affordable housing, re-entry, and access to living wage jobs for Black workers. In 2012 DeAngelo left National People's Action after nearly six years to start the Workers Center For Racial Justice where he serves as Executive Director and Senior Strategist. In 2014, under his leadership, WCRJ achieved a major victory by getting statewide Ban the Box legislation passed and signed into law that covers both public and private sectors employers.
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