Critical Voices: A Conversation with Maina Kiai

On February 26, 2018 The Sorensen Center hosted a conversation with Maina Kiai, a prominent Kenyan human rights lawyer who served as the first-ever United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association from 2011-2017. Maina spoke about his fact finding missions in Ferguson, Baltimore, Jackson, and other U.S. cities, and how he urged US lawmakers to address the alarming trend towards curbing freedom of assembly around Standing Rock, women’s marches, and #BlackLivesMatter. He also discussed recent elections in Kenya and strategic coalitions and movement building.