The Center for International Human Rights invites you to a discussion with Justice Collective founder and coordinator Mitali Nagrecha
Speaker: Mitali Nagrecha
Mitali Nagrecha is the founder and coordinator of Justice Collective, a Berlin-based European project to end society’s reliance on policing and punishment. Justice Collective engages in advocacy, research, public education, and organizing to reveal and resist punishment as a tool of racism and economic injustice. Prior to starting Justice Collective, Mitali launched the racism and punishment work at Fair Trials, a Brussels-based NGO, includingpublishing a primer on racial disparities in criminal sanctioning in Europe and writing in the press on the issue.
Prior to moving to Europe, Mitali was the founder and director of Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Policy Program’s Criminal Justice Debt Initiative. With her team, Mitali advocated against the racist practice of raising state revenue by charging people fees and fines in criminal cases. The Atlantic covered her work here. During her time at CJPP, Mitali published a number of reports and articles, including The Limits of Fairer Fines: Lessons from Germany. Mitali joined CJPP with over ten years of experience researching and advocating on policing and punishment. You can learn more about Mitali’s work and publications here.
Mitali earned her B.A. at Cornell University and her J.D. cum laude from The University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She also served as a Fulbright Scholar in India.
Moderator: Andrea Sandbrink
Andrea Sandbrink is a PhD student at the Department of Law of the Free University of Berlin. Her thesis is on corporate climate crimes and the legal mechanisms of attributing climate change to transnational organizations. Her research interests include human rights and the interconnection between climate change, climate justice and human rights. Prior to her PhD, she completed her law studies at Free University of Berlin and the Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile
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The event is co-sponsored by CRJ Ph.D., IC&J MA, ICJ BA, and the Department of Political Science.
