About this Event
Join the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures for a presentation and panel discussion over a shared dinner.
Because the Ink is Still Wet: Life-Story Revision and the Possibility of Change
CJ Appleton is an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is a mixed-methods criminologist whose research centers on desistance, behavior change, and the institutional contexts that shape justice outcomes.
Dr. Appleton’s scholarship examines both individuals impacted by the criminal legal system and the practitioners who operate within it. His person-centered research focuses on justice-involved populations, using life-story and narrative methods to understand the criminal career across the life course. His scholarship on the topic of childhood adversity and criminal careers looks to expand the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) framework beyond the household to include neighborhood, school, and institutional contexts. This research maps how adversity accumulates across settings and examines its lasting effects on identity development, behavior, and desistance. A central contribution of Dr. Appleton’s work is developing the fields understanding of the role race plays in the desistance process. His ongoing projects examine how race shapes narrative identity and desistance processes.
This dinner will take place from 6–8pm at Southside Community Center (305 S Plain St). Catered dinner by Mama Sharon's Kitchen will be provided free of charge. Please register in advance and let us know if you have any food allergies we should be aware of.
Toward Equitable Futures is a community dinner series designed around a simple but powerful premise: that communities learn better together when they also eat together. Please join the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures and our community partners for catered dinners and public forums that brings together faculty, students, researchers, and Ithaca residents around shared food and shared inquiry. Each dinner features a 30-minute presentation followed by a moderated panel discussion. At their core, the dinners are an investment in community-rooted relationship-building that makes justice work possible.
Please note: We will be taking photos and video at this event for our records and archive, which may also appear publicly on our website, newsletter, or social media. If you do not want your photograph taken, please wear one of the provided stickers in a visible place to alert us of your preference to opt out.
Event venue & nearby stays
Southside Community Center, 305 South Plain Street, Ithaca, United States
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