Dr. Dungy shares her expertise globally, delivering lectures on policy, community development, and criminal justice reform.

 

Making Policy Equitable and Communities Safer

 
 
 

Dr. Dungy is a sought-after speaker on a diversity of topics related to criminal justice policy, policing, and corrections. Much of her work has had impact on criminal justice policy. In March 2021, Dr. Dungy gave a talk for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, highlighting the many challenges incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women face. In June 2020, she gave expert testimony to the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss why Michigan’s Clean Slate Bill should be passed.  As a result of her and others’ testimony, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the Clean Slate legislation, which allows for automatic expungement for justice-involved people and increases the number of offenses a person can have expunged. In October 2018 she gave a congressional briefing on Capitol Hill about the state of women in the correctional system and the unique challenges they face, in which she called for specific policy changes to ensure women’s needs are met so they can successfully integrate into the community. In 2016, she was appointed by former Michigan Governor, Rick Synder, to serve a three-year term on the Board for the Michigan Correctional Officers Training Council.

 
 

Selected Speaking Reels

Upcoming Engagements

 

Guest Speaker, “Participatory Action Reseach with Marginalized Communities,” Michigan State University, October 2024.

Recent Engagements

 

Guest Panelist, “Predicting the Future: Incarcerated Women’s Views of Reentry Success.” Citizens for Prison Reform,” Citizens for Prison Reform, July 17, 2024.

Program Speaker, “Hidden Curriculum Summit,” Texas Southern University. June 11-13, 2024.

Guest Speaker, “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, & Black Lives Matter,” Michigan State University, January 17, 2024.

Additional Past Engagements

 

Co-Facilitator, “Bridging The Gap: Holding Mindful Conversations About Important Topics,” Michigan Department of Health and Human, October 23, 2023.

Presenter, “Public protest participation during a pandemic shape human behaviors and commitment to collective action,” American Sociological Association, August 7, 2023.

Guest panelist, “Housing Structural Barriers & Challenges that Formerly Incarcerated People Face,” Building Michigan Community Conference, May 10, 2023.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” University of Illinois-Chicago, April 8, 2022.

Guest panelist, “Perspectives on Community Policing,” Michigan State University, March 30, 2022.

Guest speaker, "The Politics of Respectability,” University of Houston-Downtown, March 30, 2022.

Keynote speaker, “Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” University of Houston-Downtown, March 31, 2022.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” Georgia Southern University, March 23, 2022.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” Michigan State University, November 10, 2021.

Guest panelist, “Trauma, Community Health & the Criminal Legal System,” Michigan State University, October 19, 2021.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” Northeastern University, April 20, 2021.

Guest speaker, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” University of Minnesota, April 19, 2021.

Guest panelist, “Critical Conversations: Key Issues for Discussing Race in America - Race & Policing,” Howard University, March 25, 2021.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” Washington University-St. Louis, March 2, 2021.

Guest panelist, “Black Lives Matter vs. Far Right Extremism: Protests, Movements, & Riots,” University of Illinois Chicago, February 23, 2021.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” University of Central Florida, February 19, 2021.

Guest panelist, “Defund the Police: Reimagining Public Safety,” University of California, February 17, 2021.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don't Shoot,” Arizona State University, January 29, 2021.

Guest panelist, “Police-Community Relations: Race, Place, and Community Action,” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine, January 28, 2021.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” Michigan State University, November 24, 2020.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” Claremont Graduate University, November 11, 2020.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” San José State University, October 28, 2020.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” University of New Haven, October 27, 2020.

Guest speaker, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” Rutgers University, October 19. 2020.