Moving to Higher Ground & Emboldening the Field: Strategic Dismantling of the School to Prison Pipeline

Join Lateefah Simon from Akonadi Foundation and strategists of Dignity in Schools Campaign California (DSC CA) to build allies in philanthropy who are willing to invest in movement building leadership to keep California at the forefront ending criminalization in our schools and dismantling the school to prison pipeline. While this work is traditionally viewed as an educational issue, this work is opening critical struggles against policing in schools and communities, and building a new layer of grassroots leaders and movements to confront mass incarceration.

Join Us to Learn about: 

• The history and proven approach to movement building of Dignity in Schools (DSC), CA 
• About DSC CA’s cutting-edge work to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline with an emphasis on under-resourced regions and intergenerational organizing of parents and students
• The urgent need to remove police from all our schools
• The importance of supporting authentic movement building work of Black & Brown grassroots organizations dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline
• The importance of practicing solidarity with Black community-based leadership
• The intersection of justice and education  

Co-Sponsors 

& California Criminal Justice Funders Group