Justice impacted at Harvard: A workshop on inclusive policies

What obstacles do people with criminal convictions face when it comes to employment and education? What do employers and schools miss out on when they discriminate on the basis of criminal histories? How can Harvard do better on this issue?

This workshop for administrators, faculty, and other community members will explore how Harvard can become more welcoming for formerly incarcerated people and others impacted by the justice system (i.e. with a criminal record). Led by experts from Prison-to-Professionals and Jobs for the Future’s Center for Justice and Economic Advancement, the workshop will address the specific challenges faced by justice-impacted individuals and survey best practices for including and supporting justice-impacted students and employees.

We will offer the same workshop two times on Tuesday, May 6: first on Harvard’s Longwood campus from 10-12, and then on Harvard’s Cambridge campus from 2-4. RSVP here to attend. (This same workshop was offered in November, 2024.)

This event is sponsored by the Culture Lab Innovation Fund of the Harvard University Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, with additional support from the Mahindra Humanities Center, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, and the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety at the Hutchins Center.

Speaker remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.