CCGRS Speaker Series: Cynthia Chandler

About the event

Cynthia Chandler (Golden Gate University) will present “Unstuck: Resisting Slavery, Eugenics, and the Prison Industrial Complex” on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, at 5:30 p.m. in CUE 203.

Chandler is a prison industrial complex abolitionist, writer, speaker, lawyer, and social justice entrepreneur. She has launched several pivotal national organizations challenging the prison industrial complex and violence in all its forms.

As a lawyer, Chandler has represented thousands of people in California’s women’s prison system around access to healthcare, conditions of confinement, and creative ways to win people’s freedom. Among other successes, she created and implemented the legal process for winning freedom for people dying in prison, which was replicated nationally. Recently, she worked with human rights organization Justice Now to expose California’s illegal sterilization of hundreds of women in prison.

Chandler is currently the interim associate dean for career development and alumni relations at Golden Gate University School of Law. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.Phil. in criminology from the University of Cambridge.

Chandler is the mother of two young social justice activists. Together, they resist state terror in their home town.

The 2015-2016 CCGRS Speaker Series is presented by the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies with support from the Humanities Planning Group; College of Arts and Sciences; College of Education; Department of History; Department of Teaching and Learning; Western Journal of Black Studies; School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs; Department of Sociology; Women’s Studies Development Fund; Office of Equity and Diversity; The George and Bernadine Converse Historical Endowment; Diversity Education; Roots of Contemporary Issues; Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures; Department of English; Multicultural Student Services; and Division of Student Affairs.