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What’s Next?: Violence, Police Reform, and Community Healing
The vision for the panel is to have academic, legislative, and artistic perspectives represented to examine this important issue. The panel will be moderated by two students, one from African & African Diaspora Studies and the other from Irish Studies. The Africa & African Diaspora Studies representative is Taleah Pierre-Louis, and the Irish Studies representative is Czar Sepe. The panelists are: Ernesto “Eroc” Arroyo-Montano, Ricardo Arroyo, and Kathleen O’Toole.
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Ernesto “Eroc” Arroyo-Montano (He/They) is a proud father of three wonderful children, an emcee, circle keeper, artist, community weaver, educator, curandero and aspiring elder. Eroc is a queer Boricua raised in Boston, MA, and a founding member of the radical, award-winning Hip Hop group, Foundation Movement, with whom Eroc has been blessed to facilitate workshops and perform around the globe. This has included Tanzania (where we performed at Black August), Kenya, Cuba (where we were honored to meet Assata Shakur), Palestine (where we performed at refugee camps), South Africa, and Japan (where we participated in a 72 day peace walk from Hiroshima to Tokyo). All of these experiences have and continue to deeply transform Eroc and inform Eroc’s practice. Healing for liberation, Arts & Activism, and Popular Education remain Eroc’s passion, purpose and priority in community movement work, which he is able to develop, practice and facilitate their role as Director of Cultural Organizing at the grassroots economic justice organization, 'United for a Fair Economy'.
Ricardo Arroyo was born in Hyde Park, MA where he was raised by his parents who rooted in him a love of service and a responsibility to give back to his community. Those lessons led him to a career as a Public Defender at the Committee for Public Counsel Services. As a public defender he saw how the lack of opportunity, inequity, and the marginalization of individuals ravages lives. It was those experiences that led him to run for the Boston City Council in 2018, a race he won. He is currently serving his first term and is the first person of color to ever hold his seat and is currently the only man of color on the Boston City Council. Ricardo attended the Boston Public Schools, holds a B.A. in History from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago.
Kathleen O’Toole is a Boston College graduate and a career police officer, lawyer and PhD who has earned an international reputation for her principled leadership and police reform strategies. She served as Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety, Boston Police Commissioner and as Chief of the Seattle Police Department. Kathleen was a key member of the Patten Commission that helped reform the Royal Ulster Constabulary into the Police Service of Northern Ireland. This proved a key component to the Good Friday Agreement that helped bring an end to thirty years of conflict in Northern Ireland. In 2017, Kathleen chaired the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. In September 2018, the Commission presented its findings and reform recommendations to the Irish Government. Kathleen previously served as Chief Inspector of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate, an oversight body advising the Irish Minister of Justice and recommending best practices for the 16,000-member Irish national police service.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 6:00pm
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