Recovery in Practice: Not Going Back

September 22, 2023
Session: Not Going Back
A conversation with frontline harm reduction workers, community activists, and researchers about the abject failure of the war on drugs and the role that comprehensive harm reduction, robust multi-pathway recovery supports, and innovative social science research can work to repair and replace the tired criminal justice-focused paradigm. Rebecca Jordan-Young from the Recovery Working Group at Columbia's Center for the Study of Social Difference moderates.
Speakers:
Rebecca Jordan-Young (Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Barnard College), Morgan Godvin (Founder, Beats Overdose), Fernando Montero (HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies), and Dziko Singleton (Co-Coordinator Comprehensive Harm Reduction, Health Brigade).
About Recovery in Practice
How do recovery journeys-both individual and collective-inspire creative processes, inform research trajectories, and build community? Join us for an innovative gathering of artists, authors, activists, and scientific researchers as they share their stories and foster conversations about what it means to practice recovery.
Through social practice artworks, scientific research, and creative writing, conference speakers will train students and community members in best practices, coalition building, and harm reduction to achieve social impact for the Columbia and Manhattanville communities. The conference will also attend carefully to the intersectional nexus between recovery and decarceration, foregrounding the voices of formerly incarcerated individuals.
This multi-part gathering is open to the public, and we especially encourage the entire Columbia community-students, faculty, staff-and all our neighbors in Manhattanville and beyond to engage.
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