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Incarceration and Its Impacts

 

Chair: Chris Finley Colville Confederated Tribes (University of Southern California, American Studies and Ethnicity)

 

  • Tenzin Butsang (University of Toronto, Canada, Public Health, Social and Behavioral Health Sciences) 
    Kijibashik: Turn it Around – Colonial Violence and Previously Incarcerated Indigenous Mothers

 

  • Lorinda Riley (University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, US, Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health)
    When Justice is Unjust: Stemming the Effects of the Juvenile Justice System on Native Hawaiians

 

 

Dr. Chris Finley is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes located in what is now called Eastern Washington state.  She received her Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a co-editor and contributor to Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2011).  Currently, she lives on Tongva land and is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

 

Tenzin Butsang is a PhD candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. She is a Tibetan settler born on unceded Coast Salish territory. Her research examines settler colonial violence, surveillance, and the carceral state.

 

Dr. Lorinda Riley is an Assistant Professor in the Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health Specialization at the Office of Public Health Studies at University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa and holds a joint appointment with Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. Her research focuses on Native Hawaiian historical trauma and resilience. Dr. Riley draws upon her experience as an attorney to analyze laws related to health and support policy change.