Clark University Hosts 'Know Your Rights' Presentation

From Clark University: Clark University will host “Know Your Rights!” a presentation by Chris Robarge and Charu A. Verma of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts, at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, in the Jefferson Academic Center, Room 218, Downing Street, Worcester.

Robarge is the Central Massachusetts field coordinator for the ACLU of Massachusetts; he focuses on police practices, voting rights, and free speech rights for all. Robarge first became an activist during the battle for marriage equality in 2005. He was active in the Occupy movement in Worcester, Boston, and throughout New England, and in his role as vice-chair of the Citizen Advisory Council for the City of Worcester, he helped recruit people from under-represented communities onto board and commission seats in city government. Robarge also worked with the American Red Cross of Central Massachusetts as a disaster services coordinator.

Verma is a full-time staff attorney at the Committee for Public Counsel Services in the Malden District Court Office. She has been on the Massachusetts ACLU Board of Directors since 2013, and serves as the affiliate rep to the ACLU National Board. Verma is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) Criminal Justice Section Council and serves on the MBA Criminal Justice Reform Task Force. She is also a council member of the Middlesex Bar Association.

This free, public event is sponsored by the Political Science Department through the Frances A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund. For more information, call 508-793-7155.

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice) is Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a robust liberal arts curriculum with life-changing world and workplace experiences. Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to complex challenges in the natural sciences, psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge convention. Change our world.

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