Laura Lemus
Labor Community Strategy Center
I am a queer non conforming salvadorean womyn born and raised in the Los Angeles Area. As a working class student I have been targeted in my community and in my school, because of the color of my skin.
Presentations from Facing Race 2012
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
This workshop is intended to assist participants in addressing educational pushout and the criminalization of K-12 students in their respective communities. We will with a brief overview of the relevant issues, their causes, and their impact followed by case studies of resistance, involving an interactive discussion around actual examples of local and state organizing campaigns, and the lessons learned from them. Finally, participants will work in small groups to develop policy agendas and strategies for addressing the issue in their communities.
Speakers: Tekoah Flory, Laura Lemus, Scott Roberts