Speakers at the 2011 CEDP Convention

FORMER PRISONERS:

Lawrence Hayes – Former New York death row prisoner 

Mark Clements – Former Illinois juvenile life without parole prisoner and police torture victi 

Jazz Hayden –  Part of the historic uprisings at Attica as former New York prisoner and activist with the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow 

*Also invited to call in from prison are California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper and former Illinois death row prisoner Stanley Howard (who remains in prison despite his death sentence being commuted) 

FAMILY MEMBERS: 

Sandra Reed - mother of Texas death row prisoner Rodney Reed 

Sandrine Skinner – wife of Texas death row prisoner Hank Skinner  

DeJaun and Martina Correia – nephew and sister of wrongfully executed Georgia prisoner Troy Davis 

Jack Bryson – Whose son was on the platform with Oscar Grant when Oscar was shot and killed by Oakland transit police 

Barbara Lewis – Mother of Delaware death row prisoner Robert Gattis 

Terri Been – Sister of Texas death row prisoner Jeff Wood who was convicted under the Texas Law of Parties

Jeannine Scott – Wife of Michael Scott who was freed in the Yogurt Shop case in Austin, Texas

Derrel Myers – a member of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights and a long-time civil rights and antiwar activist 

Lawrence Foster, Sr. – Grandfather of former Texas death row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr. whose sentence was commuted to life in 2007 

ACTIVISTS/JOURNALISTS/OTHERS:

Jesse Muhammad – activist and journalist with the Nation of Islam and the Final Call

Liliana Segura – Independent journalist and activist with the New York City CEDP chapter and the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow 

Elizabeth Gilbert – Author and advocate for wrongfully executed Texas death row prisoner Cameron Todd Willingham 

Scott Cobb – Activist with the Texas Moratorium Network and co-organizer of the Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty in Texas 

Jessica Escobar -  From the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition in California and a member of California Prison Focus

Crystal Bybee – Activist with the Bay Area CEDP and the Kevin Cooper Defense Committee in California 

Ben Davis – Activist with the CEDP and the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow in New York City 

Marlene Martin – National Director of the CEDP and activist with the Chicago CEDP 

Pat Foley – Activist with the Bay Area CEDP and part of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition 

Brit Schulte – Activist with the Chicago CEDP and advocate for Texas death row prisoner Rob Will

Lily Hughes – activist with the Austin CEDP chapter 

Sandra Jones – Author and activist with the Delaware CEDP chapter 

Tomika Erbe - Activist with the Chicago CEDP chapter 

Randi Jones – Activist with the Chicago CEDP chapter

Laura Brady – Activist with the Austin CEDP chapter and organizer in the former Save Kenneth Foster Campaign 

And many other family members and activists participating!