Lectures & Interviews

  • Townhall: Memphis, Police Accountability, and How We Can Advocate for Change, Feb 2023 (click here)

  • Areva Martin in Real Time-Feb 2, Feb 2023 (click here)

  • Areva Martin in Real Time-Feb 9, Feb 2023 (click here)

  • Trending Now (Black People Continue to Face Hate Speech Online), Feb 2023 (click here)

  • Trending Now (Black History Month), Feb 2023 (click here)

  • Trending Now (Migos rapper Takeoff shot dead in Houston at the age of 28), Nov 2022 (click here)

  • The Special Report with Areva Martin, Aug 2021 (click here)

  • The Black Index-Publication Launch, June 2021 (click here)

  • Race, Class, and Policing: The Racial Economics of Mass Incarceration, Spectre Journal & Haymarket Books, February 2021, (click here)

  • Critical Perspectives on Reentry, William Paterson University, February 2021, (click here)

  • The Dark Database: Facial Recognition and it’s “Failure” to Enroll, The Black Index, January 2021, (click here)

  • The Racial Economics of Mass Incarceration, SUNY-Old Westbury (Old Westbury, NY), December 2020, (click here)

  • The Black Lives Matter Movement and Policing in a Multiracial Society, Shippensburg University (Shippensburg, PA), November 2020 (click here)

  • Policing: Reform, Defund, or Abolish?, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College (New York, NY), October 2020 (click here)

  • Protest as a Path to Progress, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College (New York, NY), July 2020 (click here)

  • Beyond Prison: Abolition in the Age of Reentry, Building Abolition Conference (Banff, Canada), September 2019 (click here)

  • Prisoner Re-entry in the USA, FreshEd with Will Brehm [podcast], February 2018 (click here)

  • Prisoner Reentry & The Worth of Black Life in the 21st Century, Wagner College (Staten Island, NY), September 2017 (click here)

Media Quotes

  • Plea Bargains Are a Tool of Racist Mass Incarceration, Jan 2023 (click here)

  • For Black Americans, FiveThirtyEight, June 2020 (click here)

  • Is It Worth It, The Star, June 2020 (click here)

  • It’s a War Zone, The Guardian, Jan 2020 (click here)

  • Avec l’election de Trump, Le Monde, Jan 2019 (click here)

  • For Once, Racism Didn’t Work, CIty Lab, Oct 2018 (click here)

  • Dallas Police Shooting, The Washington Post, September 2018 (click here)

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