Events

Me Too & Mass Incarceration, TEDx 2020

What is the relationship among gender violence, inequality, and the mass incarceration of women and girls? How does gender inequality give rise to wrongful convictions? This TEDX talk features my work on the Cynthia Alvarado case and details the pivotal role social scientists can play in freeing incarcerated survivors of gender violence.

Upcoming 2024

October 22, Commutation in PA 101, Friends Center, Philadelphia
November 13, 15, American Society of Criminology, San Francisco

Past

May 1, Screening of Beyond Bars to Benefit Philly Justice Project, Villanova University. Tickets available here.
April 3, Closure is Possible, Friends Center, Philadelphia
March 23, Innocence Network Conference, New Orleans
February 19, 2024: Symposium on Wrongful Convictions. University of Delaware.
November 17, 2023: Presidential Panel on Police Violence, American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA
August 18 & 21, 2023: American Sociological Association, Philadelphia
June 15, 2023: Prisoner Visitation & Support, Zoom
May 17, 2023: Masculinity Action Project. Zoom.
May 24, 2023: Gender Violence of Mass Incarceration, Bard College.
April 27, 2023: Strauser Lecture, Lycoming College.
March 30, 2023: Imperfect Victims, Novel Idea. Philadelphia.
March 20, 2023: Symposium on Wrongful Convictions & Miscarriages of Justice. Villanova University.
November 16 – 19, 2022. American Society of Criminology. Atlanta.
June 27, 2022: Let’s Talk, Philly DA Series. Free Library of Philadelphia.
June 13, 2022: Let’s Talk, Philly DA Series. Free Library of Philadelphia.
March 30, 2022: Keynote Address. Shippensburg University.
March 3, 2022: JLPA Symposium on Women’s Rights in the Criminal Justice System , University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, Philadelphia, PA
April 7, 2021: UNITAS Research Symposium, Villanova University
March 15, 2021: Public Hearing on Public Safety & Public Health in Philadelphia Prisons Resolution 200690, Philadelphia City Council
December 21, 2020: Public Hearing on Public Safety & Public Health in Philadelphia Prisons Resolution 200690, Philadelphia City Council
November 19, 2020: Centre for Criminological Research, University of Alberta, Canada
October 19, 2020: A Novel Idea on Social Justice, Philadelphia, PA
August 6, 2020: The Black and White of Policing, El Segundo for Black Lives
February 19, 2020: TEDx Villanova, Villanova, PA
February 4, 2020: National Lawyers Guild, Villanova University School of Law
September 13, 2019: A Novel Idea, Philadelphia, PA
August 10-13, 2019: American Sociological Association, New York, NY
May 30-June 2, 2019: Law & Society Association, Washington, DC
November 13, 2018: Perspectives on the Opioid Epidemic, Villanova University
November 8, 2018: National Conference on Higher Education in Prison, Indianapolis, Indiana
November 1, 2018: The Villanova Program at SCI Graterford, Villanova University
October 17, 2018: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
October 4, 2018: Mass Incarceration and Collateral Damage, Villanova University
September 18, 2018: The Death Penalty and Pope Francis, Villanova University School of Law
September 5-6, 2018: North South Irish Criminology Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
August 24, 2018: One Book Villanova – Just Mercy, Villanova University
August 11, 2018: American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA
July 12 – 13, 2018: Summer Research Institute of the Racial Democracy, Crime, & Justice Network, Rutgers, NJ
May 19, 2018: Sociological Association of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
February 10, 2018: Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
November 15, 2017: American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA
November 9, 2017: Institute of Criminology at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
October 4, 2017: School of Law at University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
April 21, 2017: Alpha Kappa Delta Featured Speaker, University of Akron, OH
April 21, 2017: Keynote Address for Department of Sociology, University of Akron, Akron, OH
March 25, 2017: Social Theory Forum, Boston, MA
March 7, 2017: Searchlight Series at Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA
September 16, 2016: Ryan Forum, Villanova University Law School, Villanova, PA
August 22, 2016: American Sociological Association, Seattle, WA
May 13, 2016: Sociological Association of Ireland, Limerick, Ireland
April 23, 2016: Sisters Returning Home, Philadelphia, PA
March 31, 2016: Baldy Symposium on Gender and the Drug War, SUNY – Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
March 18, 2016: Symposium on Sex, Gender, and the Carceral State, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA
January 28, 2016: Gaudium et Spes, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
November, 20, 2015: American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC
April 25, 2015: Sisters Returning Home, Philadelphia, PA
April 17, 2015: Gensler Symposium at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
March 25, 2015: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium on Mass Incarceration at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, MD
March 12, 2015: Center for Arabic and Islamic Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, PA
January 22, 2015: Freedom School at Villanova University, Villanova, PA
January 21, 2015: Keynote Address at Elizabethtown College