Trauma Series Pilot Episode

Roots, Experiences, & Healing

Zoom Recording below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpCvQOjEZdk

This is a Town Hall formatted panel discussion on the relationship between the History of Policing, Incarceration and Trauma and how marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted.  The recommendations for a reimagination of policing in Tompkins County and Ithaca call for a Trauma Informed administration of Public Safety.  Our goal is to develop a conversation around this issue to excavate the deeper truths behind the desires for such a system change.  We want to facilitate an examination of the possibilities of a new way of operation that encompasses an understanding of a deep history fraught with trauma that simultaneously moves us to become a community of healing.  Healing and justice must be preceded by truth and reconciliatory action.  Please join Darnell Epps, Dr. Jamila Michener, Psychologist Jessye Cohen Filipic, Professor Sabrina Karim, Community Organizer Shawanna Vaughn, and Professor Rosa Brooks for the launch of the Trauma Series and find out how we can join our entire community on this journey of truth and reconciliatory action.

Sabrina Karim

Cornell University Department of Government

Professor Karim’s research focuses on state building in the aftermath of political violence. Specifically, she studies police violence and reform in a global context, including international police assistance, gender reforms in peacekeeping and domestic security sectors, and the relationship between gender and political violence.

Jamila Michener

Cornell University Department of Government

Jamila Michener is an associate professor of Government at Cornell University. She studies poverty, racism, and public policy, with a particular focus on health and housing. She is author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, co-director of the Politics of Race, Immigration, Class and Ethnicity (PRICE) research initiative, and board chair of the Cornell Prison Education Program.

Rosa Brooks

Georgetown University Law Center

Professor Brooks teaches international law, national security, constitutional law and criminal justice. She joined the Law Center faculty in 2007, after serving as an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. From 2016-2018, Brooks served as the Law Center’s Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. Brooks is also an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute and a Senior Fellow at New America.

Jessye Cohen-Filipic

The REACH Project, Ithaca College

Dr. Cohen-Filipic had worked as a mental health provider in a variety of settings, including a jail, community mental health clinics, VA hospitals, and primary care medical clinics. She is currently a Primary Care Psychologist at The REACH Project and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Ithaca College.