CONVERSATIONS

Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications

Vital conversations are essential to Kaia's work. Among activists and academics, faith leaders and law enforcement agencies, community-based organizations and the US Department of Justice, Kaia is skilled at facilitating difficult conversations that include various perspectives . In 2016, she was invited to the White House to participate in a roundtable discussion on criminal justice reform. Please find select recent conversations below.

Memorial Church’s William Belden Noble Lecture

Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, presented a lecture on mass incarceration in Harvard's Memorial Church. The conversation was moderated by Kaia Stern (left), director of Harvard's Prison Studies Project.