Zach Norris, the author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities, will discuss his new book at Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday, February 5, at 7 pm.
A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment.
We Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized, so they can participate fully in life, in society, and in the fabric of our democracy.
Zach Norris is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement, violence prevention, juvenile justice, and police brutality, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the co-founder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University.
