Join us for the next Global Capitalism lecture with Professor Richard D. Wolff and Special Guest Speaker Andrea James on Wednesday, November 12. Please register to attend here.

Presented by acclaimed economist Professor Richard D. Wolff, Global Capitalism is a bi-monthly lecture series exploring global affairs, economics, and geopolitics. Professor Wolff will present a discussion on the impact of President Trump’s economic policies and how they are an attack on working people.

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). Prof Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update.

Andrea James, JD. is the Founder and Executive Director of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Founder of Families for Justice as Healing, author of Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts on the Politics of Mass Incarceration, a Soros Justice Fellow and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

As a former criminal defense attorney and a formerly incarcerated woman, Andrea shares her personal and professional experiences to raise awareness of the effects of incarcerating women on themselves, their children and communities. Her work is focused on ending incarceration of women and girls and contributing to the shift from a criminal legal system focused on police and prisons, to a system led by directly affected people from within their neighborhoods and based on individual and community accountability.