Event Details (U.S. National Park Service)

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Special Event

Fee:

Free. Ferry tickets are required to visit Alcatraz Island. Your island ticket is sufficient for admission. Contact Ranger Ashley if you'd like to arrange for free tickets to Alcatraz for any groups that have been impacted by the criminal legal system.

Location: LAT/LONG: 37.826841, -122.423117

The Speaker Series will take place in the Dining Hall of the Cell House.

Dates & Times

Date:

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Time:

1:00 PM

Duration:

1 hour

Type of Event

Talk

Speaking event starts at 1 PM in the Cellhouse Dining Hall.

Description

Ernst Fenelon Jr., International Author, Inspirational Speaker, Moderator, Life Coach, Performer, and Poet.

Ernst has created a self-empowerment curriculum, focusing on personal development during incarceration, social reintegration, and self-empowerment for “success”.

Ernst developed it from his vast lived experience, including the past 33 years with the California & global incarceration systems.

Ernst has facilitated classes, lectured, or performed globally in prisons and universities in Uganda, London, Scotland, Connecticut, Texas, and throughout California.

Ernst works with the Prison Education Project, Dancing through Prison Walls, Reintegration Academy, and other organizations to serve currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families.
Ernst continues to use his platforms to address legal/social systems injustices and inequalities.

The Formerly Incarcerated Speaker Series is a biweekly program on Alcatraz Island that lifts up and highlights the voices of people who have spent time inside of jails and prisons. The National Park Service believes in parks as platforms for dialogue, and Alcatraz Island, being one of the only NPS sites that interprets mass incarceration, works directly with people who have been affected in order to give them a platform to showcase their stories.

For more information on the Formerly Incarcerated Speaker Series,or other community outreach initiatives (including ranger-led programs), please contact park ranger Ashley Borrego (ashley_borrego@nps.gov). If you are a community leader working with the formerly incarcerated community and you would like to bring a group to an upcoming program in the series, please email Oliver. If you have any accessibility needs such as ASL translation, please contact goga_accessibility@nps.gov at least 5 days in advance.

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