Join us for a powerful conversation about voting rights behind bars and what’s being done to protect them

We bring together directly impacted people, organizers, advocates, and community members across Michigan to talk about voting access, the criminal legal system, and the issues shaping our lives and communities.

Each week, we focus on timely topics including policy changes, community organizing, and civic education. There is always space for questions, conversation, and strategy.

On Friday, June 20th, join VAAC and the Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities for a conversation on expanding jail voting access, and how the I.G.N.I.T.E. program is using education and job training to reduce recidivism, disrupt generational incarceration, and build pathways to reentry with Genesee County Sheriff Christopher R. Swanson.

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Join us again on July 11th for special guest, Chief Legal Director for the Michigan Department of State, Khyla D. Craine, for a conversation on voting access for people in county jail and for those impacted by the legal system, plus how Michigan’s Road to Restoration events support community members navigating ID and voting barriers.

We bring together directly impacted people, organizers, advocates, and community members across Michigan to talk about voting access, the criminal legal system, and the issues shaping our lives and communities.

Each week we focus on timely topics including policy changes, community organizing, and civic education. There is always space for questions, conversation, and strategy.