Cappuccino City: Gentrification and the Criminal Justice in the District of Columbia

AU School of Public Affairs Professor and Metropolitan Policy Center Director Derek Hyra’s new book, Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City, is an in-depth ethnography of quickly gentrifying spaces in Washington, D.C. As long-time black residents are joined, and variously displaced, by an influx of younger, whiter, and relatively wealthier professionals, what does that mean for criminal justice in the city?

Join SPA adjunct instructor Gordon-Andrew Fletcher as he moderates a discussion with activists, academics, and potential policymakers with deep roots in Washington, D.C. on how gentrification impacts criminal justice and vice versa.

Featured Panelists:

- Sharece Crawford, President and Founder of District Influencers; Candidate for Washington, D.C. City Council (At Large)

- George Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor of History, UMBC; Author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America

- Tony Lewis, Jr, Author, Slugg: A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration

- Parisa Norouzi, Executive Director, Empower DC