Financial News and Daily Record: TEDxFSCJ to Look at How Youth Crime Impacts Community

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TEDxFSCJ will explore local efforts to address how crime affects Jacksonville’s youth at an event Wednesday at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Downtown Campus.

 “Common Stories, Uncommon Failures — Youth, Crime & Community” is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the FSCJ Advanced Technology Center, Room T140/141, 101 W. State St. 

The free event will feature EVAC Movement senior Davin Brown and anti-human trafficking advocate Alyssa Beck, as well as State Attorney Melissa Nelson and New Town Success Zone Executive Director George Maxey.

 The speakers will discuss the effects of violence and incarceration, the realities of racism and gender-based trauma and the economic roots of crime and innovative policies within the criminal justice system.

 For more information, email TEDxFSCJ@gmail.com or visit tedxfscj.com. Register at TEDxFSCJSalon Eventbrite.