Did you want to know the status of crimmigration in Tennessee; the co-operational role that ICE has (and seeks to get) with local law enforcement; the state laws, including the denial of education to K-12 students, that are proliferating and why; the tragedies across our nation with ICE enforcement? Join us for a thought-provoking presentation by Dr. Meghan Conley, Associate Director of Practice at UTK.

Dr. Conley’s work focuses on Latinx migration, crimmigration, and applied sociology.  In addition to being a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Dr. Conley is Director of Community Partnerships.  She is also a founding member of Allies of Knoxville’s Immigrant Neighbors (AKIN).

Dr. Conley is the author of Immigration Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality. She has co-authored several books and several articles on Immigration; nativism; white supremacy; police and ICE and police interoperability; and unequal protection and racial disparities.

The public is invited to attend the lunch and lecture between 11:15 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, 809 Oak Ridge Turnpike. All are welcome to bring their lunch or purchase a boxed lunch. Coffee and tea will be served. The presentation will begin at noon and end with questions and answers.