Advocacy Tactics: Knowing Your Audience - Leyana Renee Zaletel

Advocacy Tactics: Knowing your Audience
Empirical evidence consistently fails to support sex offender laws and such laws have been referred to as “crime control theater.” Yet they have tended to grow in scope and severity over the past three decades. In this workshop, you will learn about some concepts in psychology that can help explain why misinformation can endure and why those with the power to create rational sex offender laws fail to do so. You will learn about some barriers to persuasion and how we may work around them by knowing our audience. After the presentation, the floor will be open to questions and sharing relevant experiences.
Bio: Leyana Zaletel has a master's degree in psychology from Arizona State University, a Bachelor's degree in music from University of Colorado, Boulder and has experience in teaching, music therapy, research, information technology, and data engineering. She is also one of the 750,000+ individuals on the sex offender registry in the United States. She has both academic knowledge pertaining to sex offenses and first-hand experience of the devastating collateral consequences of being labeled as a sex offender.
NARSOL is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization exclusively dedicated to defending the constitutional liberties of registered citizens and their families.NARSOL opposes dehumanizing registries and works to eliminate discrimination, banishment, and vigilantism against persons accused or convicted of sexual offenses through the use of impact litigation, public education, legislative advocacy, and media outreach in order to reintegrate and reconcile affected individuals and restore their constitutional rights.
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Since most of the laws are enforced at the state level, we need activists in all 50 states.