On November 6, 2013, WWAV’s Executive Director, Deon Haywood, was part of a panel discussion on “Gender and Incarceration” at Tulane University.
Please click HERE to watch this powerful conversation among formerly incarcerated women, scholars and activists (and those wearing multiple hats!) on how our understanding of mass incarceration changes when gender is centered, and how communities are fighting back.

From the organizers:
A panel of advocates for the rights of incarcerated women discussed that women were the fasted growing group of incarcerated people in the United States.?The panel of black women, some of whom had been imprisoned themselves, discussed the compounding effect the incarceration rate has had on their communities and how the study of incarceration, which had focused on men, changed when gender was considered.?Topics included the over-policing of the black community.
“Gender, Race, and Incarceration,” held at Tulane University’s Lavin-Bernick Center, was sponsored by Newcomb-Tulane College and the Newcomb College Institute.?It was affiliated with the 2013 Tulane Reading Project on Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.