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MomsRising to Join U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, Colleagues, Advocates in Launching Community Safety Agenda Tuesday, July 15 at 2 pm

July 13, 2025
Youth & Family Justice, Police Reform

Magen Eissenstat, magen@momsrising.org, 202/371-1996

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WASHINGTON, DC - On Tuesday, July 15th at 2:00 pm, Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) will join Members of Congress and a coalition of advocates, including MomsRising, for a press conference to launch a Community Safety Agenda. This evidence-informed approach to public safety prioritizes care, connection, and prevention over punishment, control, and isolation. 

More than 100 civil rights, public health, racial justice, housing, violence prevention, and economic justice groups support this agenda, which prioritizes policies that invest in people and communities, not police and prisons, to keep people safe. At the press conference, members of Congress will discuss legislation housed under this agenda. 

WHO:

  • Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12)
  • Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04)
  • Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05)
  • Congresswoman Lucy McBath (GA-06)
  • Thea Sebastian, Executive Director, The Futures Institute
  • Liz Komar, Sentencing Reform Counsel, The Sentencing Project
  • Kevin Beckford, PhD, Senior Associate, Pretrial Justice Institute 
  • Nick Wilson, Senior Director of gun violence prevention, American Progress
  • Beatriz Beckford, National Director of Youth and Family Justice, MomsRising
  • Michael Huggins, Deputy Senior Director, Color of Change
  • Additional Members and advocates to be announced

WHEN:

July 15, 2025 at 2:00PM

WHERE:

House Triangle

U.S. Capitol Complex

RSVP:

Press must RSVP at the link provided.

RSVP HERE

 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.