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Speaker: Lindsey Krinks the Co-Founder and Interim Co-Director for Open Table Nashville. Krinks gave a background on how houselessness became a chronic problem from the 1980's to the present. She focused on specific issues in the Nashville area, and how Open Table...

Speaker: Jazmin Ramirez, a community organizer at Tennessee Immigrant and Refugees Rights Coalition. She is currently leading youth organizing, electoral work and rapid response. She has helped lead the fight for in-state tuition for undocumented students in...

Speakers: Dr. Ellen Clayton and Dr. Nancy Lipsitz. Dr. Clayton and Dr. Lipsitz shared background on the SCOTUS ruling as well as the triggering of the Tennessee Human Life Protection Act and discussed the legal barriers placed on health professionals providing...

Speaker: Angie Emery Henderson (Metropolitan Nashville Council District 34). Councilmember Henderson provided insight about the intersection of various local legislative rulings with the Tennessee Legislature. The preemption doctrine refers to the idea that a higher...

Speakers: Howard Gentry, Criminal Court Clerk for Davidson County, and Jim Shulman, Vice-mayor for Nashville. Gentry and Shulman addressed restoration of voting rights in Tennessee. Tennessee ranks near the bottom in voter turnout and registration. Nearly 10% of...