Belly of the Beast Screening & Panel
Join the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMTC) Just Education Collaborative, and the UMTC and University of Illinois - Chicago Maternal and Child Health Student Interest Groups, for a free weeklong virtual screening of the documentary Belly of the Beast and a panel discussing reproductive injustices and human rights violations within the carceral system.
Attendees will register to receive a screening link and a Zoom webinar invitation. The screening for the full documentary will be available from September 30th - October 7th. The panel is scheduled for Tuesday, October 5th from 7-8:30 CT.
Autumn Mason
In her work with the MN Prison Doula Project, Autumn Mason provides incarcerated mothers with social, emotional, physical and informational support at Shakopee Prison and many local facilities within MN.
Cynthia Chandler
Cynthia Chandler is a film participant and uncovered California’s coercive sterilization of women in prison through 2012, and led efforts to pass successful legislation to stop it. Cynthia maintains a legislative practice, contributing to key legislation aimed at shrinking imprisonment. In all her work, she serves as an ally and coach, supporting disenfranchised people in realizing their own solutions for freedom.
Elizabeth Feldman
Elizabeth Feldman, MD recently retired as site medical director of Erie Family Health Center Evanston/Skokie. Previously, Elizabeth spent nine years as an attending physician at Cermak Health Services of Cook County, providing medical care to individuals incarcerated at the Cook County Jail; for 4 years she served as Cermak’s Associate Medical Director.
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Just Education Collaborative
The Just Education Collaborative explores how the University can transform the collateral consequences of incarceration into opportunities for economic mobility, individual growth, and societal change, through research, and collaboration with scholars, advocates, state and county officials, and those currently impacted. In 2018, leaders from the Law School, Academic Health Center, Weisman Art Museum, and other University stakeholders began to explore how the University of Minnesota can reverse the ripple effect of incarceration by creating a more just approach to supporting citizens with criminal records and their communities. Through funding from the Institute of Advanced Studies, the goal of this collaboration is to identify what the University of Minnesota, as a major and influential academic institution, can do to address the crisis.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made to sphmchig@umn.edu by September 21st, 2021 .