Free-Dem Foundations: From Wrongful Incarceration to Community Mobilization
A Panel Discussion with
Robert Jones, Jerome Moran and Daniel Rideau
12:00pm | Panel Discussion at Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
Free-Dem Foundations is a non-profit community based organization that partners with local business and NGO’s to empower New Orleans’ area youth. Created by Robert Jones, Jerome Moran and Daniel Rideau, these men were all wrongfully convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent.
6:00pm | Discussion with Jerome Morgan, MCC Theater
Jerome Morgan was wrongly convicted and served a total of twenty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent with the help of the Innocence Project. He will speak about his life before incarceration, fighting for freedom inside Angola Prison, and his work with Students at the Center and Youth Activism. Free-Dem Foundations is a non-profit community based youth organization that partners with local businesses and nonprofit organizations (primarily formerly incarcerated business owners and activists) to empower New Orleans’ area youth.
