Type: Public event
Host: Poverty Solutions
Series: Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions

Pursuing justice in the prosecutor’s office: Racial and economic equity in a stratified community

Speaker

Eli Savit and Victoria Burton Harris

Date & time

Oct 14, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

Location

School of Social Work, ECC 1840
Pursuing justice in the prosecutor’s office: Racial and economic equity in a stratified community

Eli Savit serves as the elected Prosecuting Attorney for Washtenaw County. His 4-year term began on January 1st, 2021. He formerly served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was a civil-rights and public-interest attorney, and started his career as a public-school teacher. Most recently, Eli served as the City of Detroit’s senior legal counsel, where he led criminal-justice reform work for Michigan’s largest city. Eli continues to teach at the University of Michigan as a Lecturer with the Law School.

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