Youth Defender. Trainer. Author. Activist. Law Professor, & Director of @GeorgetownJJI. Fighting against the criminalization of Black adolescence.
Washington, DC
Joined June 2014
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Excited to share the cover of my new book THE RAGE OF INNOCENCE: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, exposing the trauma of aggressive & discriminatory policing. To be released by @pantheonbooks on September 28. Learn more or pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/3zV656X
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DC friends: Join @busboysandpoets 450K this Thursday, 1/11 at 6 pm for a discussion about the structural failures that undermine justice w/ THE FEAR OF TOO MUCH co-author Stephen B. Bright in conversation w/ @ProfKrisHenning
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NYPD says officers were intervening to break up fight btw group of girls (ages 12 & 14). This is what “intervening” looks like: pummeling 14 year old girl to teach her that fighting is wrong? What about deescalation? & interventions that don’t involve police?
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It was definitely an honor to be @TheCityClub with so many young people, teachers, youth advocates, luminaries, and Georgetown alums among others!
Check it out: @ProfKrisHenning (@GeorgetownLaw) spoke at @TheCityClub to discuss her new book, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth." Watch the recording: buff.ly/3AD9OIy
#WomenAlsoKnowLaw
And I, too, am a fan of yours and all your work at the Korematsu Center!
Dear @ProfKrisHenning: If I bring this to @GaultCenter 2022 Youth Defender Leadership Summit, will you please sign it?
Sincerely,
A Fan
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Honored to see The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth on this great list of finalists! Thank you @Evident_Change for all you do to advance racial justice.
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…to Texas…The way we treat children, especially children of color in this country is appalling…Call to ‘defund’ 2 judges in Tarrant County for holding so few juvenile court hearings star-telegram.com/news/local…
… to Georgia…Officer fired, arrested after child dies following ‘fight game’ inside youth detention center msn.com/en-us/news/crime/off…
From Philadelphia…. Judges who sent kids to for-profit jails ordered to pay $200M msn.com/en-us/money/news/jud…
Beautiful and inspiring.
United States Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 2022 / For @voguemagazine
So excited for @leilamottley and @oprahsbookclub! I cannot wait to be in conversation about Nightcrawling and the many Black girls who are unseen. Friday night in Washington, DC! 7 pm@EST. Come out!!!! @PoliticsProse Union Market!
Congrats to @leilamottley for NIGHTCRAWLING being chosen as the latest @oprahsbookclub pick! Join Mottley and @ProfKrisHenning on Friday, 6/10 at 7pm at Union Market for a discussion on this brilliant debut novel about an Oakland teen bit.ly/3NtY0N6
Great evening with great colleagues! I learn so much from everyone in this photo! @GeorgetownLaw
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Nothing will stop us in the fight against racial inequities in the juvenile legal system! Honored to be with the committed youth defenders in the @GaultCenter South region!
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Great conversation with @joshuabhoe on Decarceration Nation. Check it out! 👇🏾
“There's a growing body of research, documenting the extraordinary psychological trauma that black and Latino children in particular experience in contact with the police” - @ProfKrisHenning
Episode 129 of Decarceration Nation #cjreform #podcast buff.ly/38xTo9n
Join us on IG Live y’all! Tomorrow at 12 noon EST (June 2)! @allwaysblack with @BlkEmilyDicknsn! #therageofinnocence
.@BlkEmilyDicknsn, curator of @allwaysblack, and @ProfKrisHenning, author of THE RAGE OF INNOCENCE, will be in conversation tomorrow at 2 pm EST on IG Live discussing being black in America, the prison industrial complex, and more! You won't want to miss it!
I love being on the faculty @GeorgetownLaw with such brilliant Black women. It was a special treat to have @Sifill_LDF as our graduation speaker! @vidabjohnson @LawProfTJ @JG4Justice @aplerhoples @sherrileekeene @SheilaRFoster @SheryllCashin @EconomicJustice
The privilege was all mine! It was an honor to hear our extraordinary civil rights leader @Sifill_LDF inspire and challenge 2022 graduates @GeorgetownLaw to fight for justice in the American democracy! Powerful message for the next generation of activists!
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Some news organizations and commentators have called the 18-year-old Buffalo white supremacist a "teenager" and "child" — rather than a "man."
Many were quick to call that out as a racist double standard.
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