Lecture and Discussion with Gabriel Solis, Director of the Texas After Violence Project

Please join the Skillman Library Social Justice Reading Series for a lecture and reading discussion with Gabriel Solis, Executive Director of the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP).  The TAVP is a non-profit organization in Austin, TX, that serves as a forum for oral history narrators from across Texas who have been impacted by criminal justice policies.  Read more about the TAVP at http://texasafterviolence.org/ 

In his lecture, Gabe will interweave segments from TAVP oral histories with a discussion of the chapter "The Death Penalty as a Public Health Problem" (pages 350-70) in the 2016 United Nations Human Rights Report, The Death Penalty and its Victims, before opening it up to Q&A and a reading discussion of this chapter.

Bio: Gabriel Daniel Solis is the Executive Director of the Texas After Violence Project. Prior to returning to the TAVP in 2016, where he previously served as Project Coordinator and Associate Director, Gabe worked as a post-conviction mitigation investigator for the Texas Office of Capital and Forensic Writs. Gabriel was also a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and coordinator of the Rule of Law Oral History Project at Columbia University. He has conducted research on policing, mass incarceration, the death penalty, and the effects of violence and trauma on families and communities. He received a B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.