Dr Baz Dreisinger - Restorative Truth - Author of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World

Crime rates around the world have declined, but the global prison
population is rising. The US is worlds greatest jailor with 5% of
the world population and 25% of its prison population. This is
clearly not logical, and Dr. Baz Dreisinger's life is dedicated
to solving this inhumane problem. Heralded by the New York Times
and  named a notable book of 2016 by the Washington Post,
Dr. Dreisinger's book, Incarceration Nations: A Journey to
Justice in Prisons Around the World, offers a radical rethinking
of one of America's most devastating exports and national
experiments: the modern prison system. Dr. Dreisinger works at
the intersection of race, crime, culture and justice. She earned
her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, specializing in
American and African-American studies. She is the Founding
Academic Director of the John Jay College Prison-to-College
Pipeline program, which offers college courses and reentry
planning to those in prison, and broadly works to increase access
to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated
individuals. She is Executive Director of the Incarceration
Nations Network (INN), a global network and think tank that
supports, instigates and popularizes innovative prison reform
efforts around the world. Dr. Dreisinger won a 2018 Global
Fulbright Scholar for her international work promoting
education-not-incarceration and restorative justice
internationally. As a journalist and critic, Dr. Dreisinger
produces on-air segments for NPR and covers Caribbean culture,
race-related issues, travel, music and pop culture for the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal and ForbesLife.  Her first
book "Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture"
(2008), a cultural history of whites who pass as black, was
featured in the New York Times Book Review and on NPR and CNN. We
are honored to welcome Dr. Dreisinger as the next guest in our
Wide Awakes activation. 


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