5:30 - 6:00 pm
6:00 pm
Tanya Golash-Boza, Executive Director of UCDC
6:05 pm
Patrice Sulton, Executive Director, DC Justice Lab
6:10 - 6:40 pm
University of California speakers present 10-minute reparations proposals
Mark Brown, Professor, California State University, Sacramento, proposes a transitional justice model of reparations, which views reparations as the repair of current harms that results from past injustices.
Erika Weissinger, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, illustrates how municipal-level reparations can set a precedent for broader state and national reparations efforts.
Giuliana Perrone, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara, considers a subset of lawsuits in which emancipated people sued to have their enslavers’ bequests to them honored.
Dinner served 6:40 - 7:00 pm
7:00 - 7:30 pm
University of California speakers present 10-minute reparations proposals
Rekai Rusinga, Graduate Student, UC Davis, draws out the lessons from past reparations efforts in South Africa
Kyle Mays, Associate Professor, UCLA, will argue that urban policies for reparations should center land returns and include Black and Indigenous communities.