The Impact on Housing
A presentation by
Emily Baxter
Friday, April 20 | 5-8 pm
Great Room
Free and all are welcome
2.5 hours of Diversity credit available for Mitchell Hamline students
“Increasingly, lawmakers are enacting policies that restrict persons with records (particularly drug convictions) from access to public housing. Likewise, many private landlords conduct background checks on potential renters, either excluding anyone with a record or charging higher rent or triple security deposit to live there. Such collateral consequences create substantial barriers to economic, educational, and social progress: without a safe and affordable home, men, women, and families are left homeless, living in shelters, or in crowded and unsafe situations where the focus is often on survival, not advancement.” –WAAC website
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Emily Baxter is the executive director and developer of WAAC. Prior to this, Emily served as the director of advocacy and public policy at the Council on Crime and Justice in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she worked on successful Ban the Box and expungement expansion efforts, and as an assistant public defender at the Regional Native Public Defense Corporation representing indigent members of the Leech Lake and White Earth Bands of Ojibwe charged with crimes in Minnesota State Court. She is a former Fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School’s Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. She has served on the boards of the Minnesota Second Chance Coalition and the Minnesota Community Corrections Association. Emily began developing We Are All Criminals through an Archibald Bush Leadership Fellowship in 2012. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Emily travels across the country, meeting and collaborating with stakeholders and changemakers in criminal justice reform. She now lives in Durham, North Carolina.