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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


A woman in a floral shirt holds a pink circle with pliers at a desk. Several colors of dyes and silver earring materials sit in front of her.

Q&A: NU alumna Kourtney Kinchen on her nonprofit passion project, Encircled Jewelry

May 24, 2021

A&E When a global pandemic disrupted her gap year before law school, Kourtney Kinchen (Weinberg ‘20) started an online jewelry shop. Inspired by Northwestern student-run Friends Who Earring, Kinchen...

Woman in green jacket and black skirt standing in a room of incarcerated individuals who are sitting at classroom desks.

Panelists discuss death penalty history and abolition in NPEP roundtable

April 21, 2021

Criminal justice experts discussed the inefficacy of the death penalty and the need for its abolition in a Tuesday roundtable. In the event hosted by the Northwestern Prison Education Program, panelists...

Photograph of Sociology and African American Studies Prof. Mary Pattillo imposed on a blue background filled with repeated shapes

Women scholars discuss links between prison activism and research in NPEP panel

March 31, 2021

Sociology and African American Studies Prof. Mary Pattillo and Ph.D. candidates Charlotte Rosen and Sanjana Subramaniam discussed their experiences with prison activism at a Wednesday panel. In the...

A rainbow stole held in front of the Supreme Court building on June 15, 2020, the day the Court extended civil rights protections to LGBTQ employees. Research shows LGBTQ individuals are disproportionately targeted by incarceration and the criminal legal system.

‘We are disproportionately abused’: Formerly incarcerated activist, scholars discuss queer incarceration at NPEP roundtable

March 3, 2021

Evie Litwok — a formerly incarcerated queer activist, lesbian and daughter of Holocaust survivors — has only been out of prison for five years. Litwok was arrested in 1997 on allegations of tax...

NPEP Director Jennifer Lackey. Lackey and NPEP hosted a roundtable discussion on prison abolition featuring activists with firsthand experience of the criminal justice system.

Activists, authors share personal stories in prison abolition roundtable

February 10, 2021

Abolitionists shared firsthand experiences with the prison-industrial complex as part of a community roundtable series hosted Tuesday by the Northwestern Prison Education Program. NPEP Director Jennifer...

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