Professor Sheila Bedi delivers a public lecture as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Thursday, Jan. 22, from 5-7 p.m. in Baker Ballroom A.
Her lecture is on “Tearing Down the Walls: The Urgent Human Rights Crisis in U.S. Prisons and Jails and the Imperative to End Mass Imprisonment”
Dr. Sheila Bedi
Bedi is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the Northwestern School of Law and an attorney with the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center. Her work focuses on ending mass imprisonment and enforcing the rights of people caught up in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
Previously, Bedi served as the deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in New Orleans and Mississippi, where she represented people who are imprisoned in federal class action litigation challenging abusive prison conditions and worked on community-based policy campaigns aimed at reducing incarceration rates, ensuring fairness in the administrative of justice, and improving access to public education and mental health services.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, the Black Students Cultural Programming Board, the Multicultural Center, Making and Breaking the Law, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the School of Communication Studies.
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