National Symposium & Call To Action on Incarceration in NYC 9/24/11 : Scott Stringer, Take 1

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Scott M. Stringer became Manhattan's 26th Borough President in January 2006 after serving 13 years in the New York Assembly, where The New York Times credited him as having "a sterling reputation as a catalyst for reform."

During his first two years in office, Scott helped breathe new life into Manhattan's Community Boards, ensuring that every neighborhood has a voice in decisions that impact local residents' lives. He revamped the Borough President's Land Use Division and effectively weighed in on development projects that will shape Manhattan's future.

Since taking office Scott has emerged as a leading voice on the need for comprehensive transportation reform. He has continued his career-long fight for affordable housing by conducting the first ever borough-wide vacant lots and abandoned buildings survey to identify sites for affordable housing creation in Manhattan, and working with local legislators to introduce laws that will further that goal.

In 2007 Scott launched Go Green East Harlem, a multi-faceted campaign to improve residents' health in East Harlem, and to serve as a model for other environmentally neglected neighborhoods. Scott also worked to secure a $900,000 grant from the federal Justice Department in order to crack down on domestic violence in Northern Manhattan and followed through on his pledge to create the Manhattan Borough President's Youth Sports league which serves more than 1,000 children across the borough.

Over the past year, Scott has taken the lead on exposing the dangerous neglect of elevator safety in New York City Housing Authority buildings, called for the MTA to repeal its proposed fare hike for disabled commuters who depend on Access-A-Ride, advocated for more aggressive construction of classroom space for Manhattan schools and demanded strengthened oversight of state-owned buildings to ensure they meet or exceed local building codes.

For thirteen years, Scott served in the New York State Assembly where he authored landmark legislation to protect victims of domestic violence, led the fight against repeal of the commuter tax, voted against every attempt to weaken rent regulations and sponsored legislation that ended "empty-seat voting" in Albany.

Scott was born in Washington Heights where he graduated from local public schools and went on to graduate from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

THINK OUTSIDE THE CELL: A NEW DAY, A NEW WAY : A National Symposium And CALL TO ACTION On Issues Affecting The Incarcerated, The Formerly Incarcerated And Their Families

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS: Honorable Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, NJ; Honorable Scott M. Stringer, Manhattan Borough President; Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder, National Action Network; Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow; CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien; "Chef Jeff" Henderson; Randall Robinson; CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts; Terrie Williams, youth advocate and author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting; Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; El Diario La Prensa publisher Rossana Rosado; Marc Lamont Hill, Black Enterprise TV; Alan Rosenthal, Center for Community Alternatives; Julio Medina, Exodus Transitional Community, Inc.

The symposium is funded by the Ford Foundation and presented in full partnership with the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, the Fortune Society's David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, the College and Community Fellowship and the Riverside Church Prison Ministry.

The event is FREE & open to the public, but you do need to RSVP formally/separately here:

https://chartingmaps.wufoo.com/forms/symposium-registration/

You can find out more about the event here:

http://www.thinkoutsidethecell.org/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=266306573390685

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