Southeastern Louisiana University’s Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice presents the return of the 16th annual Social Justice Speaker Series featuring a discussion with Derecka Purnell, a human rights lawyer, researcher, and author of “Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom.”
Scheduled Nov. 2 at 2 p.m., the free event will take place in Pottle Auditorium. Purnell works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in community-based organizations through an abolitionist framework.
Purnell received her juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Missouri- Kansas City, and studied public policy and economics at the University of California- Berkeley as a public policy and international affairs law fellow.
Her writing has been published widely.
She is currently a columnist at The Guardian and a scholar-in-residence at Columbia Law School.
For more information, contact the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at 985-549- 2110 or soccj@southeastern.edu.
