Posts Tagged ‘Correctional Association of New York’

TRGGR host, Chris Tinson, recently sat down with longtime activists Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Founding Director, University of Arkansas Little Rock Institute on Race and Ethnicity, and Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director of the Correctional Association of NEW YORK, which monitors conditions in state prisons. She is the first woman and first person of color to head the 170-year-old organization.  Aiyetoro and Elijah discuss reparations, prison reform, black women leadership, and the Obama presidency.