Join Central Synagogue’s Rabbi Hilly Haber for a powerful conversation with Deborah Archer, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, about her new book, Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality.
Archer explores how modern infrastructure and transportation systems — from highways to sidewalks to pedestrian crossings — have insidiously created and enforced racial segregations from the early 20th century to the present day.
This conversation is open to the public. Books will be available to purchase.
Deborah Archer is the President of the ACLU, where she serves as Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, the two governing bodies responsible for policy development, financial oversight, and mission-alignment functions, and a nationally recognized expert on civil liberties, civil rights, and racial justice. and a nationally recognized expert on civil liberties, civil rights, and racial justice. She is also the Margaret B. Hoppin Professor of Clinical Law and Faculty Director of the Community Equity Initiative at New York University School of Law. She has worked as an attorney with the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where she litigated in the areas of voting rights, employment discrimination, educational equity, and school desegregation. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Smith College.
