On March 11, 2021 we co-hosted a live stream screening and panel discussion of Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem, inspired by HLS professor Alexandra Natapoff’s book Punishment Without Crime: How our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal.
The panel included:
- Alexandra Natapoff, Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Robert Greenwald, Director, Brave New Films
- Rachael Rollins, Suffolk County District Attorney
- Udi Ofer, Director, Justice Division and Deputy National Political Director, ACLU
- Sandra Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice & Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
- Chris Lollie, musician, St. Paul, MN, featured in the film