Marie Mele Thomas, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of Criminal Justice, will lead a panel discussion “Policing in Communities of Color,” a conversation on police violence, Black Lives Matter, and police reform, on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.
Panelists include Lorenzo M. Boyd, Ph.D, vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of New Haven; Jason Williams, Ph.D., assistant professor of justice studies at Montclair State University; Sean K. Wilson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at William Paterson University; and Andrea McChristian, Esq., law and policy director at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.
The event, which is sponsored by Monmouth University’s Intercultural Center; School of Humanities and Social Sciences, sociology program; and Helen Bennett McMurray Endowment for Social Ethics, is free but preregistration is required.