Date: Wednesday March 22, 2023 | 12PM-1:30PM Eastern

Title: Bearing the Burden: Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women

Description: This panel brings together legislators and scholars who study the creation of firearm laws to understand how state and federal governments create firearm policy. Topics to be discussed include when laws are too vague, who fills the gaps, what laws have been effective, and what happens when people in power do not want to comply with the law.

Panelists:
Representative David Cicilline, US Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District
Gretta Gordy Gardner, Esq., Chief Legal Officer and Co-Founder of Ujima Inc., The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
Lisa Geller, Director of State Affairs at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

Moderator: Professor Kaitlin Sidorsky, Coastal Carolina University

Format: Via Zoom