
Eric Avila, UCLA professor of history and Chicano/a Studies, examines the intersections of racial identity, urban space, and cultural representation in 20th-century America. Conversations on Race and Policing is free and open to the public and will take place at noon on Wednesday, March 19, via Zoom.

CSUSB alumna and author Keeonna Harris, and activist and radio host Cat Brooks will headline the two Conversations on Race and Policing this week. Harris will appear on the Wednesday, March 12, program, and Brooks on the Thursday, March 13, program. Both will be on Zoom.

Madeleine Hamlin is a Colgate University assistant professor of geography, whose work focuses on housing, policing, race, class and punishment in U.S. cities.

“In Conversation with Drs. Paloma Villegas (CSUSB Sociology) and Dylan Rodriguez (Dept. of Black Study & Media and Cultural Studies, UCR)” takes place at noon Wednesday, Feb. 26, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

Cal State San Bernardino’s continuing series resumes at noon Wednesday, Feb. 19, when it hosts Amy Barden, chief of Seattle’s Community Assisted Response & Engagement Department, a public safety agency that assists police officers on calls involving people experiencing crisis or behavioral health challenges.

Michael German, Brennan Center for Justice Fellow, former FBI special agent and a member of the conversation series organizing group will discuss his forthcoming book, “Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within.”

The talk, “Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Grown Politics and the Remaking of Segregation,” will be presented by Daanika Gordon, author of the book of the same title, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, a University of Kentucky assistant professor of geography, will present "We Deserve Better: Contesting Racialized Sexual and Gender Policing,” at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, Nov. 6, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

Neal Kelley, the retired Orange County registrar of voters, will be the guest speaker at the Wednesday, Oct. 30, Conversations on Race and Policing, a free and public program that will take place beginning at 1 p.m. on Zoom.