EJS Mind Science and Racial Justice Conference 2015

Mind Science Conference #mindscience15 Mind Science and Racial Justice Conference May 31 – June 2, 2015 East Bay Community Foundation James Irvine Center in Oakland, Calif.

Presented by the Equal Justice Society, the National Center for Youth Law, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and the Perception Institute.

Made possible by funding from The California Endowment.

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The MIND SCIENCE CONFRENCE 31ST-

2ND,

MAY JUNE 2015-9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION JAMES IRVINE CONFERENCE CENTER 200 FRANK H OGAWA PLAZA, OAKLAND, CA 94612

A CONVENING OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEYS, COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS, AND MORE!

June 1st -- Day 1 Agenda 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Welcome and Introductions

Panel #1 -- Mind Science across the Social Justice World 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM

Opening Panel- The Intersectionality of Mind Science In the Social Justice World Robert Borrelle- Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund Michael Laurence- Habeas Corpus Resource Center Reverend Michael McBride- Black Lives Matter Eva Paterson- Equal Justice Society- Moderator

10:30 AM-11:00 AM

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Panel #2: Girls and Implicit Bias

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Girls and Implicit Bias (possible causes for increased fighting and arrests) Priscilla Ocen- Loyola Law School Jeremy Adam Smith- Center for Greater Good Chris Bridges- Equal Justice Society- Moderator

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12:30 PM-2:00 PM

LUNCH ON OWN – A list of nearby restaurants is enclosed

Panel #3: Trauma and Implicit Bias 2:00 PM- 3:30 PM

Trauma and Implicit Bias In the Classroom/ In Juvenile Justice/ The School to Prison Pipeline.

Allison Briscoe Smith- The Wright Institute Jason Okonufua- Stanford University Michael Harris- National Center for Youth Law-Moderator

June 2nd -- Day 2 Agenda 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

Panel #1 -- Interventions/Debiasing/Neuroplasticity 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Interventions/Debiasing/Neuroplasticity Nilanjana Dasgupta- University of Massachusetts-Amherst Leslie Kirby- Psychotherapist- Berkeley Eva Paterson- Equal Justice Society- Moderator

10:30 AM-10:45 AM

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Panel #2 – Police and Lethal Use of Force Against Unarmed People of Color 10:45 AM- 12:00 PM

Police and Lethal Use of Force Against Unarmed People of Color Jack Glaser- Goldman School of Public Policy- UC Berkeley Eva Paterson- Equal Justice Society

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

LUNCH ON OWN—A list of nearby restaurants is enclosed

Panel #3 – Bias, Anxiety, and Inter-Group Relations 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM

Bias, Anxiety, and Inter-Group Relations Linda Tropp- University of Massachusetts-Amherst Rudy Mendoza Denton- UC Berkeley Nailah Suad Nasir- UC Berkeley Eva Paterson- Equal Justice Society- Moderator

Conference Review and Reflections 3:00 PM- 3:45 PM

Conference Review and Reflections john powell- Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society.

Audience Reflections & Insight john powell- Moderator

End Conference

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2015 Mind Science Conference Bios Allison Briscoe-Smith Dr. Briscoe-Smith earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University. She then received her clinical psychology Ph.D. from University of California Berkeley. She then went on to continue her specialization in trauma and ethnic minority mental health through internship and postdoctoral work at University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. She has combined her love of teaching and advocacy by serving as a professor and by directing mental health programs for children experiencing trauma, homelessness or foster care. Much of her work has been with schools, as a clinician, consultant and trainer. Currently she is an adjunct professor at the Wright Institute and she provides consultation and training to bay area nonprofits and schools on how to support trauma informed practices and cultural accountability.

Nilanjana Dasgupta Nilanjana Dasgupta received her PhD from Yale University in 1998. She is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of Faculty Equity and Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is known for her research on unconscious or implicit bias. Whereas past research had assumed that implicit bias is learned early in life and difficult to change, Dasgupta’s research was among the first to demonstrate that implicit bias can be decreased or increased given the right social context without individuals’ awareness. This program of research, together with the work of several other labs, sparked a growing body of work on the malleability of implicit prejudice and stereotypes. Dasgupta also proposed the Stereotype Inoculation Model which identifies what social contexts protect and inoculate women and underrepresented students’ sense of self from negative stereotypes, allowing them to become successful in high achievement educational settings and careers such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A good bit of her time is spent translating scientific research to inform social problems such as employment discrimination, educational disparities in science, engineering, and mathematics, and the under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in professional leadership roles.

Eva Paterson Eva Jefferson Paterson has campaigned for civil rights with passion, courage and tenacity for more than three decades. Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts.

Prior to taking the helm of the Equal Justice Society in 2003, Paterson worked at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights for twenty-six years, thirteen of them as Executive Director. Paterson led the organization’s work providing free legal services to low-income individuals, litigating class action civil rights cases, and advocating for social justice. At the Lawyers’ Committee, she was part of a broad coalition that filed the groundbreaking antidiscrimination suit against race and gender discrimination by the San Francisco Fire Department. That lawsuit successfully desegregated the department, winning new opportunities for women and minority firefighters.

Jack Glaser Jack Glaser received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1999 and joined the faculty of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley in 2000, where he is currently Associate Dean. He is a social psychologist whose primary research interest is in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. He studies these intergroup biases at multiple levels of analysis. For example, he investigates the nonconscious operation of stereotypes and prejudice using modern, computerized methods, and is investigating the implications of such subtle forms of bias for law enforcement. Additionally, Professor Glaser has conducted research on a very extreme manifestation of intergroup bias – hate crime – and has carried out analyses of historical data as well as racist rhetoric on the Internet to challenge pervasive assumptions about economic causes of intergroup violence. Professor Glaser has been involved in training California State judges in the psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how they might operate implicitly, and undermine fairness, in the courtroom. His primary research focus is racial profiling, and he approaches this using multiple methodologies, including correlational, experimental, and simulation. In December, 2014, Oxford University Press published his book, Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling.

2015 Mind Science Conference Bios Jason Okonufua Jason Okonofua is a PhD candidate in Stanford University’s Psychology Department. Jason is interested in how the effects of one person’s stereotyping and another person’s threat reverberate and escalate over time. He currently researches this interest in the context of education and criminal justice. He asks how stereotypes about stigmatized children can shape how they are treated by and respond to teachers, administrators, and police officers. How might these processes contribute to large societal issues like disproportionate discipline and the “school-to-prison pipeline”? Jason's work is situated to inform psychological theory, field experimentation, and public policy.

Jeremy Adam Smith Jeremy Adam Smith is producer and editor of the Greater Good Science Center’s website. He is also the author or coeditor of four books, including The Daddy Shift, Rad Dad, and The Compassionate Instinct. Before joining the GGSC, he was a 2010-11 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. john a. powell john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy. He is the Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, which supports research to generate specific prescriptions for changes in policy and practice that address disparities related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and socioeconomics in California and nationwide. In addition, to being a Professor of Law and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor powell holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion. He was recently the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University and held the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. Professor powell has written extensively on a number of issues including structural racism, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a democratic society. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.

Leslie Kirby Leslie Kirby is a psychotherapist practicing in Berkeley. She uses a human systems approach to examine the effects that one's context and conditioning have on one's sense of self and security. She works with peoples’ emotions, reactions, and motivations, both conscious and unconscious. She includes the impact that the larger social context has on a person’s attachment needs. In the documentary "Getting Played - Who's Playing You?!”, Leslie speaks about neuroplasticity, images, and the dynamics of inequality in entertainment media, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA1s3PfD48c. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, she was a software engineer chosen to work with the employees of a growing software firm in order to improve morale.

Linda Tropp Linda R. Tropp is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research concerns how members of different groups approach and experience contact with each other, and how group differences in status affect cross-group relations. She has worked with national organizations to present social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on racial integration, on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with non-governmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict. She is co-author of When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact (2011), editor of the Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict (2012), and co-editor of Moving Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (2011).

2015 Mind Science Conference Bios Michael Harris Michael has worked on reducing racial disparities in statewide juvenileCenter corrections systems, he has At worked on Harris is a Senior Attorney in Juvenile Justice at the National for Youth Lawand (NCYL).

NCYL, cases that challenge the “school-to-prison pipeline” in Texas and California. Additionally he works on litigation to address implicit bias, and he has delivered presentations to local and national gatherings on the role implicit bias plays in decision making within the juvenile justice system. Before joining NCYL, Michael served as Deputy Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute in San Francisco, working to reform juvenile justice systems.

Michael has worked in California, and Washington to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system using a collaborative process to affect systemic reform. Prior to Michael’s work at the Burns Institute, he was a Staff Attorney and Assistant Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco where he worked on a broad range of civil rights cases.

Michael Laurence Michael Laurence is the Executive Director of the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, a California Judicial Branch agency created in 1998 to provide representation to death-row inmates in state and federal habeas proceedings.

Since 1987, Mr. Laurence has provided representation to death row inmates throughout the country in all levels of state and federal courts. He has represented death-row inmates in over a dozen evidentiary hearings, argued numerous cases before the California Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeals, and argued before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Laurence was also counsel of record in actions challenging lethal gas and lethal injection as a method of execution, the application of various portions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, and the Patriot Act Reauthorization Act of 2005. Mr. Laurence also was a member of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, which the California Senate created to examine the causes of wrongful convictions and to make recommendations to ensure the fair administration of criminal justice in California.

Na’ilah Suad Nasir Na’ilah Suad Nasir is the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies, and holds the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her program of research focuses on issues of race, culture, and schooling. She is the author of Racialized Identities: Race and achievement for African-American youth, published by Stanford University Press.

She has also published over 30 articles in scholarly journals. She received a teaching award from the African American Student Development Office in 2011, and she strives to integrate her scholarly work with her commitment to community and engaged scholarship.

Priscilla Ocen Priscilla Ocen is an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where she teaches criminal law, family law and a seminar on race, gender and the law. Her work examines the relationship between race and gender identities and punishment. In particular, Ocen’s scholarship has explored conditions of confinement within women’s prisons and the race and gender implications of the use of practices such as shackling during labor and childbirth. She has also explored the ways in which race, gender and class interact to render women of color vulnerable to various forms of violence and criminalization. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as the California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review and the Du Bois Review as well as popular media outlets such as the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Ebony and Al Jazeera. Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola Law School, Ocen was a Critical Race Studies fellow at UCLA School of Law, where she taught a course on Critical Race Theory and a seminar on Race, Gender and Incarceration.

Pastor Michael McBride Pastor Michael McBride (known as “Pastor Mike”) is a native of San Francisco, CA. and has been active in ministry for almost 20 years. In 2000, Pastor Mike graduated from Bethany College with a double bachelor’s

2015 Mind Science Conference Bios degree in Addiction Studies and Theology. In 2005, he graduated from Duke University’s Divinity School with a Master’s of Divinity Degree with an emphasis in Ethics and Public Policy. Over the past 15 years, his commitment to holistic ministry can be seen through his leadership roles in both the church and community organizations like Bible Way Christian Center, The Racial Justice Coalition of CA, NAACP, ACLU, the San Jose Interfaith Council and much more. In January 2009, Pastor McBride became the Executive Director of Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action, a congregation based organizing federation within the PICO National Network. In January 2012, Pastor McBride became the national campaign director for PICO’s Lifelines to Healing Campaign, comprehensive violence prevention, mass incarceration and life transformation campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States. He is deeply committed to empowering urban communities, families and youth, using the principles of a relevant and liberating gospel message that transforms lives.

Robert Borrelle Robert Borrelle is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), focusing on issues of race and disability in special education. Robert obtained a Bachelor’s in political science from Boston College in 2009, where he volunteered at the Campus School, a special-education day school for students ages 3-21 with multiple disabilities. In 2013, he graduated magna cum laude from the Syracuse University College of Law and received a Master’s in Education from the Syracuse University School of Education. While in law school, Mr. Borrelle participated in the Disability Rights Clinic and worked as a research assistant at the Burton Blatt Institute, a research institute dedicated to advancing the civic, economic and social participation of persons with disabilities worldwide. He also assisted attorneys in special education advocacy and other disability rights claims as an intern at Legal Services of Central New York and DREDF. Prior to law school, he worked as a special education assistant in the Newton, Massachusetts public schools.

Rudy Mendoza-Denton Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Division of Social Sciences.

Childhood experiences living in Mexico, the U.S., Ivory Coast, and Thailand cemented an early interest in cultural differences and intergroup relations. He received his BA from Yale University and his PhD from Columbia University. Mendoza-Denton’s professional work covers stereotyping and prejudice from the perspective of both target and perceiver, intergroup relations, as well as how these processes influence educational outcomes. He received the Division of Social Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award in 2013.

Restaurants In and Around Downtown Oakland

IB’s Hoagies & Cheesesteaks 1601 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 839-­‐‑5018 (0.2 mi. away)

Coffee Shops Modern Coffee 411 13th St Oakland, CA 94612 (13th btwn Broadway and Franklin – in the Tribune Building; 0.2 mi. away) (510) 835-­‐‑8000

Specialty’s 555 12th St, Oakland, CA 94607 (12th St btwn Jefferson and Clay; 0.2 mi. away) Rudy’s Can’t Fail 1805 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (Telegraph btwn 18th & 19th; 0.2 mi. away) (510) 251-­‐‑9400

Awaken Café 1429 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612 (Broadway btwn Telegraph and 15th St; 0.1 mi. away) (510) 863-­‐‑1440 *They have gluten-­‐‑free options.

Ratto’s International Market 821 Washington St, Oakland, CA 94607 (Washington btwn 8th and 9th; 0.4 mi away) (510) 832-­‐‑6503

The Bittersweet Chocolate Café 1438 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612 (Broadway btwn 14th and 15th St; 0.1 mi. away) (510) 238-­‐‑8700 *They have gluten-­‐‑free options.

Anula’s Café 1319 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612 (Franklin btwn 13th and 14th; 0.2 mi. away) (510) 834-­‐‑3023 *Sri Lankan/ Caribbean fusion food

Aroma Café 1900 Franklin St Oakland, CA 94612 (On the corner of 19th and Franklin; 0.3 mi away) (510) 763-­‐‑3930

The Lunchbox 1720 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612 (Franklin btwn 17th and 19th; 0.2 mi. away) (510) 836-­‐‑0703

Peet’s 1111 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607 (Broadway btwn 11th & 12th ; 0.2 mi away) (510) 844-­‐‑0061

Umami Burger 2100 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612 (Franklin btwn 21st & 22nd; 0.4 mi away) (510) 899-­‐‑8626

Sandwiches/ Salads/ Burgers Café 15 597 15th St, Oakland, CA 94612 (15th btwn Clay & Jefferson; 0.1 mi away) (510) 891-­‐‑3990

Café Gabriela 988 Broadway Oakland, CA 94607 (Broadway btwn 9th & 10th; 0.2 mi away) (510) 763-­‐‑2233

Fountain Café 499 14th St, Oakland, CA 94612 (14th Street—In Frank Ogawa Plaza) (510) 451-­‐‑6400 *Salads

Stag’s Lunchette 362 17th St, Oakland, CA 94612 (17th btwn Webster and Franklin; 0.2 mi. away) (510) 835-­‐‑7824

Asian Crossburgers 300 Frank H Ogawa Plz, Oakland, CA 94612 (0.2 mi. away) (510) 817-­‐‑4463 *They gluten free options

Golden Lotus 1301 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612 (Franklin btwn 13th & 14th; 0.2 miles away) (510) 893-­‐‑0383 *All vegetarian

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Take it Easy (Thai) 351 17th St, Oakland, CA 94612 (17th btwn Franklin & Webster; 0.3 mi away) (510) 452-­‐‑2442

Mexican Xolo Taqueria 1916 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (Telegraph btwn 19th & William; 0.2 mi away) (510) 986-­‐‑0151

Shandong (Chinese) 328 10th StOakland, CA 94607 (10th btwn Webster & Harrison, 0.4 mi away) (510) 839-­‐‑2299

Cosecha 907 Washington St, Oakland, CA 94607 ( 901 Washington btwn 9th & 10th; 0.3 mi away) 510-­‐‑452-­‐‑5900

Battambang (Cambodian) 850 Broadway St, Oakland, CA 94607 (Broadway btwn 8th & 9th; 0.4 mi away) (510) 839-­‐‑8815

La Salsa 501 14th St, Oakland, CA 94612 (City Center; 0.1 mi away) (510) 834-­‐‑3422

Yama Sushi 1814 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612 (Franklin btwn 17th & 19th; 0.3 mi away) (510) 986-­‐‑1226

Other Miss Ollie’s (Washington btwn 9th & 10th; 0.3 mi away) 901 Washington St, Oakland, CA 94607 (510) 285-­‐‑6188 *Caribbean, *Gluten Free

Desi/ Middle Eastern/ Afghan Biryani Kabab 377 13th St, Oakland, CA 94612 (13th btwn Webster & Franklin; 0.2mi away) (510) 835-­‐‑3777 Breads of India 948 Clay St, Oakland, CA 94607 (Clay btwn 9th & 10th; 0.3 mi away) (510) 834-­‐‑7684 Adam’s Mediterranean 1442 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612 (Franklin btwn 14th &15th; 0.2 mi away) (510) 271-­‐‑8010 Kamdesh Afghan Kabab House 346 14th St, Oakland, CA 94612 (14th btwn Harrison & Webster; 0.3 mi away) (510) 286-­‐‑1900

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Acknowledgements We thank each of you for participating in this mind science conference, presented by:

Equal Justice Society Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society National Center for Youth Law Perception Institute Our special appreciation to the staff from each organization for helping organize the conference!

This gathering would not have been possible with support from The California Endowment.

The California Endowment, a private, statewide health foundation, was established in 1996 to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.

Headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, The Endowment has regional offices in Sacramento, Oakland, Fresno and San Diego, with program staff working throughout the state. The Endowment challenges the conventional wisdom that medical settings and individual choices are solely responsible for people’s health. The Endowment believes that health happens in neighborhoods, schools, and with prevention. For more information, visit The Endowment’s Web site at www.calendow.org.

We welcome your feedback so we can improve our collective efforts. Please email cbridges@equaljusticesociety.org.

Thank you again for being with us!

Mind Science Conference Planning Committee Christopher Bridges, Equal Justice Society Eva Paterson, Equal Justice Society Michael Harris, National Center for Youth Law Rachel Godsil, Perception Institute Dr. Allison Briscoe-­‐Smith, The Wright Institute Alyson Reimer, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society john powell, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Dr. Jack Glaser, Goldman School of Public Policy