JOIN US! October 25: Collaboration for Justice Annual Luncheon

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On Tuesday, October 25, join the Collaboration for Justice of Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts & Chicago Council of Lawyers for our annual meeting. This year, we are especially excited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our Collaboration for Justice with Chicago Appleseed.

The luncheon reception will include a panel discussion, moderated by Laura Washington (Columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Reporter & Political Analyst for ABC-7 Chicago) – who we will present with the Lifetime Achievement Award – and featuring Dr. Matt Epperson (Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice & Director of the Smart Decarceration Project), Dr. Julian Thompson (Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago), and Garien Gatewood (Chicago Appleseed Board Member & Director of the Illinois Justice Project).

The Collaboration will present Chicago Appleseed Board Member Dr. Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology & Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University, with our Commitment to Justice Award.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Laura Washington, Columnist for the Chicago Tribune & Reporter and Political Analyst for ABC-7 Chicago Laura Washington will moderate a panel with Dr. Matt Epperson, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice & Director of the Smart Decarceration Project, Dr. Julian Thompson, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Garien Gatewood, Chicago Appleseed Board Member & Director of the Illinois Justice Project.
Dr. Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology & Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity, urban sociology, inequality, housing, education, criminal legal studies, Black communities, and qualitative methods. The city of Chicago offers an abundance of opportunities for research and activism and Pattillo strives to be an expert in Chicago history, politics, and social life. In her first book, Black Picket Fences (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Dr. Pattillo investigates the economic, spatial, and cultural forces that affect child-rearing and youth socialization in a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. In her second book, Black on the Block (University of Chicago Press, 2007) focused on gentrification and public housing transformation in North Kenwood - Oakland on Chicago's South Side. The book develops the concept of "middlemen" and "middlewomen," the roles that black professionals play in working alternatively to mediate or exacerbate racial and class inequality. Dr. Pattillo’s other projects in Chicago and Illinois include a study of how Black parents negotiate school choice and how families make housing choices, and research on the system of monetary sanctions—fines, fees, and other financial penalties—in the criminal legal system. She is a Board Member of Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political & Social Science, and a founding board member of Urban Prep Charter Academies in Chicago.

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