Please arrive 15 minutes early to register for the event and browse books. Buying a book before or after the event is a great way to support the Making Worlds project!
In October 2020, Walter Wallace Jr. was killed by Philadelphia police while he suffered from a mental health crisis. Following his death, community members organized to implement Philadelphia’s first non-police mental health crisis response program. Join Amistad Law Project and community organizers for a screening of Care Team, a short documentary that follows two mobile crisis workers as they respond to mental health emergencies across the city.
Kris Henderson is a co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Amistad Law Project. They are a movement lawyer and a co-founding member of the Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration. They are on the steering committee of Free The Ballot! Incarcerated Voter Family Network and on the board of directors of Black Youth Project 100. They are a 2018 Law for Black Lives and Movement Law Lab Legal Innovators Fellow and a 2019 Soros Justice Fellow.
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