Major Issues in U.S. Prisons: Setting the Context

This panel discussion is part of the Pomona College Criminal Justice Symposium

Monday, March 28, 2016, from 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Rose Hills Theatre

Panel Discussion Participants

Moderator Bill Keller ’70 is editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Keller worked for The New York Times from 1984 to 2014 as a correspondent, executive editor (2003-2011), and op-ed columnist. As a correspondent, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, winning a Pulitzer Prize. He also covered he end of white rule in South Africa.

Jennie Pasquarella is director of immigrants’ rights and staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. She specializes in immigrants’ rights litigation and policy advocacy, and was previously a legal fellow/staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, both in New York.

Diana Zuñiga is the statewide organizer for Californians United for a Responsible Budget. Her years of community organizing and leadership skills have been honed in campaign work for the Latino Voters League, the Southwest Voter Registration Project and Drug Policy Alliance.

Richard Roderick PI ’14 is program coordinator of the Justice-in-Education Initiative of Columbia University. He was featured in "The Cooler Bandits."