WWAV is thrilled to be traveling to Denver next week for the International Drug Policy Reform Conference.  Our Executive Director, Deon Haywood, Director of Program Development, Shaquita Borden, and Board Member, Laura McTighe, will all be presenting. AND our Education and Outreach Director, Desiree Evans, will be attending for the first time!
Please scroll down for a list of all the sessions WWAV is presenting at.
You can download the full conference program here.
 

THURSDAY, October 24th

11:30am -1:00pm

Theorizing Drugs: What Can Theory & Philosophy
Teach Us About Drug Policy Reform?

Location: Governor’s Square 15 
*Panelists include: Laura McTighe, WWAV Board Member,
and a PhD Student at Columbia University in the Department of Religion

2:30pm-4:00pm

Research Impurities: What Do Politics
Have to Do With Drug Research?

Location: Governor’s Square 15
*Panelists include: Shaquita Borden, WWAV Director of Program Development
and a PhD Student at University of Alabama at Birmingham in Health Behavior, Health Education and Health Promotion

7:00pm-9:00pm

Screening of The House I Live In

Location: Plaza F
*Respondents include: Deon Haywood, WWAV Executive Director 

SATURDAY, October 26th

10:00am-11:30am

Organizing While Criminal: Can We Build
Power in the Face of Stigma and Criminalization?

Location: Governor’s Square 14
*Panelists include: Deon Haywood, WWAV Executive Director 

11:45am-1:15pm

When the War on Drugs Becomes a War on Women:
Sisterhood, Strength and the Struggle for Justice

Location: Governor’s Square 14
*Panelists include: Deon Haywood, WWAV Executive Director