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8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00 – 10:00 am: Introduction & Overview of the problem<\/strong><\/p>\n Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General<\/p>\n Dr. Jillian Peterson, Professor at Hamline University<\/p>\n Bradford Colbert, Mitchell Hamline School of Law<\/p>\n 10:00 – 11:00 am: Impacted Individual Panel with<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator Kevin Reese, Voices for Racial Justice<\/p>\n Naomi Gaines-Young, Author<\/p>\n Chris O\u2019Donnell<\/p>\n 11:15 – 12:15 pm: Government Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n John Choi, Ramsey County Attorney<\/p>\n Rep. Raymond Dehn, Minnesota House of Representatives<\/p>\n Paul Schnell, Minnesota Commissioner of Corrections<\/p>\n 12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch Keynote with Reginald Dwayne Betts<\/strong><\/p>\n 1:45 – 3:15 pm: Solutions panel<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator Emily Baxter, Executive Director of We Are All Criminals<\/p>\n Emily Turner, Founder of All Square<\/p>\n Otis Zanders, Ujamaa Place<\/p>\n Jon Geffen,\u00a0 Director of the Reentry Clinic at Mitchell Hamline School of Law<\/p>\n 3:30 – 5:00 pm: Reception –\u00a0<\/strong>SEEN\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Exhibit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Continuing Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n 5.0 hours of continuing education is available from the following boards:<\/p>\n This full-day conference will discuss the barriers of reentry formerly incarcerated individuals experienced & explore possible solutions. 5.0 hours of continuing education credits are available (see below for more details).<\/p>\n Our keynote speaker, Reginald Dwayne Betts, transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate of\u00a0Yale Law School. He has written three acclaimed collections of poetry, the recently published Felon, Bastards of the Reagan Era\u00a0and\u00a0Shahid Reads His Own Palm.<\/p>\n\n