Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation

The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation is a social justice programming and transformational learning institute established in 1999.[1]

The MISJT also hosts an on-campus student organization, MISO.

Social justice programming

Past events include:

• One Book, One University lectures with Michelle Alexander, Jonathon Kozol, and Katha Pollitt.[2]
• Mansfield Lecturers Marian Wright Edleman, Barbara Katz Rothman and Paul Rogat Loeb.
• Matthew Freeman Lecturers Anne Enke, Eric Klinenberg and Oscar A. Chacón.
• The Cradle to College Pipeline Summit which brought together academics, community organizers, legislators, criminal justice professionals and students to discuss the "cradle to prison pipeline."[3]

• 
  Cradle to College Pipeline Summit, Roosevelt University, October 23 &24, 2010

Faculty and staff

• Dr. Heather Dalmage, Director of the Mansfield Institute and Professor of Sociology.[4]
• Nancy Michaels, M.A., Associate Director.[5]
• Dr. Steven A. Meyers, Professor of Psychology and Mansfield Professor of Social Justice.[5]

References

1. "Mission". Roosevelt.edu. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
2. "Michelle Alexander the writer of New Jim Crow. Roosevelt University 2011 part 2 SAM_0743.MP4SAM 0743". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
3. "10/15/2009 - Cradle to College Pipeline Summit". Roosevelt.edu. 2009-10-15. Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
4. "Letters from the Directors". Roosevelt.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-07-02. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
5. "Transformational Learning". Roosevelt.edu. Retrieved 2012-06-29.