COVID-19 has created unforeseen and unplanned challenges across the world.
When COVID-19 recedes, it will leave behind an unprecedented economic crisis and a pressure on budgets and public expenditure.
The legacy of the pandemic will remain for some time and will force us to reflect on very pressing policy questions, including the best use of our public funds, how to address the needs of businesses and communities and how we can support a healthy workforce and communities.
A robust economic recovery must include addressing the inequities and inefficiencies of our criminal justice system. COVID-19 has exposed a multitude of problems in how and who we incarcerate, and ways in which we support -- or fail to support -- re-entry into our societies.
Business leaders will play a critical role in rebuilding and recovering from this pandemic. With unemployment set high and competition for investment even higher, perhaps business voices will be the only ones that will really get through.
As leaders in the space of criminal justice reform (whether that’s providing prison re-skilling programmes or working directly with people returning after incarceration), each speaker will talk from their perspective on the role they play in shaping how our communities, and in return, economies respond to this crisis.
Speakers:
Celia Ouellette, CEO, Responsible Business Initiative for Justice, Chair
Sara George, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Michelle Cirocco, Chief Responsibility Officer, Televerde
Nuno Guardo, Head of Corporate Affairs UK & Ireland, Cisco
Topeka Sam, Founder and Executive Director, The Ladies of Hope Ministries
Catherine Jones, Leadership Development and Support Coordinator, Incarcerated Children's Advocacy Network (ICAN)
