Participants

The Re-Examining Lucasville Conference is a project of the following individuals and groups:

Planning Committee:
Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Free Press, Laurie Kenyatta, Cynthia Ingham, Derrick Jones, Kunta Kenyatta, Rick Kerger, Jeff Klein, Dwight LaMar, Tekla Lewin, Kevin Lowery, Staughton and Alice Lynd, Suzanne Patzer, Karen Thimmes, Ben Turk, Carter Wilson.



 Lucasville Uprising Prisoners:  

Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb, Keith Lamar (Bomani Shakur), George Skatzes. 

Legal Experts: 

Staughton Lynd
Attorney Vicki Werneke, Federal Public Defender, Capital Habeas Unit.
Attorney Niki Schwartz, who represented prisoners in negotiations in 1993, at the request of the Ohio Dept of Rehabilitation and Corrections.
Attorney Rick Kerger, who represented Hasan in state court until taken off case by trial court judge.
Dean Phyllis Crocker, Cleveland Marshall Law School, chaired ABA panel on death penalty in Ohio, member of task force appointed by Ohio Supreme Court to examine death penalty.

Incarcerated at SOCF during the riot:
Ishaq Khair
Kunta Kenyatta 

Additional Presenters:

Derrick Jones- documentary film maker
Ojore Lutalo- political prisoner, solitary confinement activist
Bonnie Kerness- prisoner advocate, solitary confinement opponent
Noelle Hanrahan- Director, Prison Radio    

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