Please join us for an opening conversation about racial inequality, police reform, and allyship between the Asian American community and the Black community, with the following panelists:

• Johnathan Smith, Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights and Workforce to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
• Sean Perryman, President of the Fairfax County NAACP and Director of Social Impact Policy and Counsel at the Internet Association
• Chiraag Bains, Director of Legal Strategies at Demos, former Senior Counsel to the AAG in the Civil Rights Division, and co-author of the “Ferguson Report”
• Roscoe Jones, Jr., Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Intermittent Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School on criminal justice reform policy, and Counsel at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP*
• Moderator: Dawn Yamane Hewett, President of APABA-DC and Of Counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP

*Admitted only in Maryland; practicing under supervision of Principals of the Firm.

Please see here for speaker bios.