SPECIAL PANEL DISCUSSION FOR THOSE ARRIVING

ON THURSDAY, APRIL 16

 

If you are arriving early for our Hadassah Big & Easy Conference, you may want to attend a panel discussion on human trafficking presented by our New Orleans chapter and Shir Chadash Synagogue. Here are the details.

 

Sex, Lies and Politics:

A Panel on Human Trafficking

Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 7 p.m.

Shir Chadash Synagogue,

3737 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie

 

Join the New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah and the Women of Shir Chadash to hear about human trafficking, from New Orleans to global human rights violations, and violence against women and children. Panelists will include Loyola University faculty members Laura Murphy and Rae Taylor, and Tulane University faculty member Tania Tetlow. This program is free and open to all.

 

Laura Murphy is the organizer of the New Orleans Human Trafficking Working Group. Director of African and African American Studies at Loyola, she is the lead researcher for Loyola’s Modern Slavery Research Project. Her research focuses on African literatures, historical and modern slavery, postcolonial studies, global literatures and Black Atlantic cultures.

 

Rae Taylor’s research and teaching interests include intimate partner violence and other violent crimes, societal and organizational responses to violent crime, and social inequalities. Taylor has worked in the criminal justice system as a victim advocate, and she continues her training in victim services and crisis response. She holds graduate-level certification in domestic violence.

 

Tania Tetlow directs the Domestic Violence Clinic at Tulane University Law School. A former federal prosecutor, Tetlow was named one of the city’s top 10 women by New Orleans Magazine for her work in domestic violence and rebuilding the public library system. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, criminal procedure and the rights of victims.

 

Moderator of the discussion will be Michelle Erenberg, Louisiana State Policy Advocacy Chair for the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). Erenberg has worked and volunteered as a grassroots activist and organizer for more than a decade. She founded the Louisiana Women’s Roundtable, a collaborative effort of progressive organizations to educate the community about issues that matter to women, children and families.

 

For more information, contact Charisse Sands at 504-231-6464 or annsandsc@aol.com