without further ado, i present nick turner. whenever someone introduces me as being esteemed or nationally recognized, i always feel like they are talking about someone else. i don't feel i quite fit that bill with you i will do what i can to live up to that introduction. i want to begin first by saying how pleased i am to have been invited to speak to all of you to be invited to an event that is organized by clasp. clasp is an organization i have long admired in many respects. the vera institute of justice and clasp are sort of of the same generation, a generation that was born of recognition and great challenge and an opportunity to remake society and draw a greater attention to social justice issues and give voice to the underserved. like you, we care a dwrat deal about racial justice at vera. you take a lens of anti-poverty work as you pursue it. we have always been in the justice reform lane, a slightly narrower lane. i think we have been running together for a long time. olivia, i have been watching you, you may not know,

without further ado, i present nick turner. good afternoon, everyone. >> that was good i don't even have to ask you to do it again. whenever someone introduces me as being esteemed or nationally recognized, i always feel like they are talking about someone else. i don't feel i quite fit that bill with you i will do what i can to live up to that introduction. i want to begin first by saying how pleased i am to have been invited to speak to all of you to be invited to an event that is organized by clasp. clasp is an organization i have long admired in many respects. the vera institute of justice and clasp are sort of the same generation, a generation that was born of recognition and great challenge and an opportunity to remake society and draw a greater attention to social justice issues and give voice to the underserved. like you, we care a great deal about racial justice at vera. you take a lens of anti-poverty work as you pursue it. we have always been in the justice reform lane, a slightly narrower lane. i think we have been

i would like to turn the program over to our es schemteemed spea nick turner, president of the institutef justice

without further ado, i present nick turner. [ applause ] >> good afternoon, everyone. that was good, i don't even have to ask you to do it again. [ laughter ] whenever someone introduces me as being esteemed or nationally recognize it always think they're talking about someone else. i certainly don't feel that i quite fit that bill but i'm going to try to do what i can to live up to that. i want to begin first by saying how pleased i am to have been invited to speak to all of you, to be invited to an event that is organized by clasp. clasp is an organization that i have long admired in many respects the vera institute of justice and class reasp are the generation, a generation that was born of recognition of great challenge that we saw in the '60s and great opportunity to remake society and to draw a greater attention to social justice issues and to give voice to the underserved. like you, clasp and olivia. we care a great deal about racial justice at vera. you take a lens of anti-poverty work as you pursue it, we have always sort of been in the justice reform lane, a

we've had a wonderful afternoon so far together with nick turner setting the stage and giving us framework. we have an opportunity, moment of opportunity to address justice reforms, address intersections of racial equity and most importantly to think about what are the strategies and policy solutions we need to ensure that individuals who are formerly incarcerated, currently have what they need to thrive and can recognize their full potential. transitioning into topic of reentry. you've heard many stats already from our opening speaker and our first panel. many face the barriers of collateral consequences of mass incarceration. over 40,000 barriers documented by bar association that rely gates to second class citizenship, employment, education, housing, loan borrowing, licensing. those are critical areas to be able to thrive economically and support your family and contribute to your communities. we also know that education and training matters while behind the walls. we talked about that research, the importance of it, the return on investment. but we also know we need to think about how