Legislative Advocacy Skills, Strategies, and Solidarity: Building Collective Power to Change the Law

On 3/29, please join us at Boston University School of Law for an event that will bring together legislators and Boston-area legal and community organizations to share the legislative advocacy skills and strategies to promote greater healing, dignity, and freedom in MA.

This event is geared towards those interested in legislative advocacy across several issue areas, including decarceration, jail/prison conditions, housing justice, and immigration justice. We welcome anyone who is brand new to advocacy and who would like to learn what it entails, as well as more experienced advocates looking to build community.

10:45-11:30: Legislator Panel
Rep. Christopher Worrell
Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa
Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven

11:30-12:30: Advocates and Organizers Panel
Nithya Badrinath, Jane Doe Inc.
Virginia Benzan and Andrea Park, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Carolyn Chou, Homes for All Massachusetts
Cynthia Kussy-Goldberg, Campaign To End Life Without Parole
Jesse White, Prisoners’​ Legal Services of Massachusetts
Mallory Hanora and Angie Jefferson, Families For Justice As Healing

Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/dPD-c8UA

Location: 765 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 (Classroom 103, First floor)