Director., Northeast Regional Office ACLU of Florida.
Telephone: 904 353 7600
Facsimile: 904 353 7666
Email: bstandly@aclufl.org
URL: http://www.aclufl.org/
Director, Benétta M. Standly, MPA, originally from Los Angeles, California, serves at the Director of the Jacksonville office of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. Ms. Standly works to expand civil liberties initiatives in the Northeast region of Florida, including all phases of management, public policy advocacy, public relations, membership, fundraising and community organizing in the Jacksonville office. She is responsible for directing ACLU activities in the Northeast region including organizing public education programs, public speaking, media appearances, contact with public officials, and managing the office.
She previously served as the Statewide Organizer and Public Policy Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. In that capacity, Ms. Standly?s work focused on increasing the ACLU?s presence across the state by encouraging members, volunteers, and supporters to participate in civic dialogue, increase their political power, and play an active role in shaping public policy. Specifically, Ms. Standly works toward achieving racial justice for all persons living in Georgia through the following campaigns: abolishing capitol punishment, restoring voting rights to the formerly incarcerated, and dismantling the school to prison pipeline.
Ms. Standly previously worked with L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation's largest public, non-profit Medicaid Managed Care Plan serving approximately 1 million lives, where she served in management capacities in the following departments: community outreach and education, public policy research, legislative analysis, as well as regulatory affairs and compliance. Ms. Standly is most proud of work in organizing eleven (11) regional community advisory committees; comprised of 350 ethnically and linguistically diverse Medicaid beneficiaries and community stakeholders. Through a transfer of skills, these participants became community activists who continue to impact public policy, conduct public education, and serve as a new cadre of local leadership.
Ms. Standly received both her Bachelors of Science in Public Health and Masters in Public Policy & Administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills.
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Three major issues she expects to talk about as she meets with community leaders are:
1. Opposition to the death penalty.
2. Restoration of voting rights for ex-convicts.
3. Stopping the "school-to-prison pipeline," in which poor and disabled children and children of color "are being funneled into alternative schools."
SOURCE: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-02-10/story/benetta_standly_ready_to_grow_learn
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Atlanta Indymedia: Schools to Prison Pipeline
From: IndymediaPresents - Video Inverview with Ms. Benétta M. Standly, MPA
December 13, 2008
On the occasion of an Obama presidency, we, as a nation, have an opportunity to examine with uncommon clarity where pockets of racism remain, and what it will take to clean them up.
This week Indymedia Presents features a piece done for the Atlanta Indymedia Center by Gary Cameron. He interviews Benetta M Standly of the Georgia ACLU, who tells us about the "Schools to Prison Pipeline" in Georgia, and shows us an actual cog in the mechanism of racism.
She describes a situation where alternative schools are used to ease kids of color right into jail. The Georgia ACLU studied it, organized a campaign, and launched their suit. Over time the front lines have shifted in the battle against racism, but they have always been there somewhere.
"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34). For more info, please visit: http://www.peppersprayproductions.org/
LINKS:
ACLU Florida: http://www.aclufl.org/about/staff.cfm
Benétta M. Standly, MPA Web Page: http://gatheringforjustice.ning.com/profile/BenettaMStandly
School To Prison Pipeline: http://www.stopschoolstojails.org/sites/default/files/Gwinnett%20STOPP%20Booklet.pdf
INDYMEDIA PRESENTS YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/IndymediaPresents
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