Film screening and discussion
Date: April 7, 2022
Time: 4-5:30 pm
Location: Tahoma Room, University of Puget Sound
Join FEPPS professors, founders, students and more for a screening and discussion of Dr. Gilda Sheppard’s incredible documentary Since I Been Down.
Since I Been Down portrays how mass incarceration, racism and redlining impacted the the Hilltop neighborhood in Tacoma in the 1990s. It follows the lives of several young people who grew up there and went to prison for long sentences.
Panelists will discuss transformative justice and reform in Washington prisons.
Gilda Sheppard, Film Director and Professor at The Evergreen State College Tacoma
Tonya Wilson, Reentry Manager at the Freedom Project and founder of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS)
Jeannie Darneille, Former WA State Senator and Asst. Secretary, Women’s Division, Department of Corrections
Event information here.