Stuyvesant High School's Social Studies Department and the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association invite the community (staff, families, and students) to a special event on April 28, 2021 from 4-5pm - A Criminal Justice Reform Webinar with Tali Farhadian Weinstein.
From President Obama’s Department of Justice to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, Tali has spent her career fighting for fairness, safety, and equal justice, and shaping a national model of progressive prosecution. She will discuss her career across American legal institutions and looks forward to questions!
Tali came to America as a child on Christmas Eve 1979, having fled the violence of revolutionary Iran. She in turn has dedicated her life to fighting for safety, fairness, and justice for all. She served as a Law Clerk for Judge Merrick B. Garland at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, first as Counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder, and then as a federal prosecutor. And most recently before stepping down to run for District Attorney, Tali served as the General Counsel of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, which, under the leadership of Eric Gonzalez, is regarded as a national model of progressive prosecution, and which has kept crime – especially violent crime – at record lows for the borough. Here is a short video introducing the campaign – narrated by Attorney General Eric Holder.
Register for this webinar here:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t1nsv38PTu2CsputTkB9bg
*original post 4/3/2021
