S. David Mitchell, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law, will present “Can You Hear Me Now?: Silencing Communities of Color Through Felon Disenfranchisement Laws” on Wednesday, April 14, at noon in S206 Memorial Union.
Mitchell, an alumnus of Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, will speak as part of the university’s Diversity in Action series. His recent publications include In With the New, Out With the Old: Expanding the Scope of Retroactive Amelioration and Undermining Individual and Collective Citizenship: The Impact of Exclusion Laws on the African-American Community.
The Diversity in Action series combines presentations of scholarship with time for audience questions and discussions. Visit the university’s Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative for more information.