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Bethel Community Transformation Center, Detroit, MI, 48202

TICKETS

Thursday

Sep 27

5:00 pm

Detroit . MI

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. 

Panel Discussion

  • free event, please click “tickets” to RSVP
  • refreshments will be provided
  • Dr. Virginia Eubanks will speak
  • Detroit Public TV’s Christy McDonald with moderate a local panel discussion

Panelists

  • Sarah Alvarez of Outlier Media
  • Jonathon Breems, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
  • State Senator Ian Conyers
  • Kent Schulze, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
  • Courtney Smith, Detroit Phoenix Center

Donor Reception

  • immediately following the panel discussion
  • $50 ticket includes wine and dessert with Dr. Eubanks and a hardcover copy of Automating Inequality
  • all proceeds to benefit THAW.

Sponsored by the Knight Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and hosted by The Heat and Warmth Fund (THAW). 

For more information: nkilleen@thawfund.org. 

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Bethel Community Transformation Center

8801 Woodward | Detroit MI

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September 27, 2018 @ 5:00 pm