The Critical Need for STEM Education and Careers for Justice-Impacted People

Registration is now open for this free watch party and panel discussion of The Critical Need for STEM Education and Careers for Justice-Impacted People! Were you unable to attend this April 2023 live panel held at the National Building Museum in honor of Second Chance month? The NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Alliance STEM-OPS (STEM Opportunities in Prison Settings) is excited to offer you the opportunity to attend a watch party of the original event featuring expert panelists discussing the urgent need to reform systems of incarceration and create pathways to STEM careers for justice-impacted people.

After the viewing, audience members will be able to ask questions of panelists and invited guests and help us all as a group think about next steps.

Moderator

• Christopher Etienne, Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative (STEM-OPS partner organization)

Facilitator

• Basia Skudrzyk, Director, STEM-OPS Executive Committee, Education Development Center (STEM-OPS partner organization)

Subject Matter Experts

• Dr. Stanley Andrisse, Co-founder and Executive Director of From Prison Cells to PhD (STEM-OPS partner organization)
• Dr. Amy Lopez, Chief Executive Officer, Past the Edges Consulting, and previous Deputy Director of DC Department of Corrections  (original event panelist)
• Tenaj Moody, Founder, Light to Life; Deputy Director of Research & Evaluation of Prison to Professionals | From Prison Cells to PhD (STEM-OPS partner organization)
• Ken Oliver, Executive Director, Checkr Foundation (original event panelist)
• Dr. Raquel Pinderhughes, Founder and Executive Director, Roots of Success Environmental Literacy and Job Training Program and Professor, San Francisco State University

Next Steps:

• View the STEM-OPS April newsletter to read about the April 17 live event.
• View the April event program, which includes detailed backgrounds on all the panelists.
• Share a flyer of the event with your partners and colleagues.
• And by all means …

Register now!