The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) is pleased to co-host “Orange is the New Black: The Age of Mass Criminalization of Women,” on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall.
This will be a conversation between Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, and Five College social justice policy resident Tina Reynolds. Both women have served time and now advocate for a more just prison system. They will discuss women’s rights in America’s prison industrial complex and the new Netflix television series based on Kerman’s memoir.
Reynolds is the co-founder and executive director of Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH), a nonprofit organization in New York City that works with currently and formerly incarcerated women to confront barriers they and their families face during and after prison. Kerman is a communications consultant with Spitfire Strategies, working with public-interest nonprofits and philanthropies.
This event is part of the Five College Public Policy Initiative’s Social Justice Practitioner-in-Residence Program. It is co-hosted by the Commonwealth Honors College and the Social Thought and Political Economy program.
CPPA is the hub of interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching and engagement at UMass Amherst.