Program Board spends $8,500 on civil rights speaker
Attorney Jasmine Rand shares with Central Michigan University students stories of her work during a presentation in Plachta Auditorium on Oct. 13.
Civil rights activist Jasmine Rand was paid $8,500 to speak at Central Michigan University by Program Board.
Rand spoke at Plachta Auditorium on October 13. She along with four members of both the Mount Pleasant Police Department and the Central Michigan University Police Department covered the topic of civil rights and modern policing.
Her contract called for round-trip airfare and the university provided hotel and ground transportation to Mount Pleasant.
Rand is employed by the law firm which represented the families of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Treyvon Martin: Cases which involved young black boys shot and killed in suspicious circumstances. She was born in Vermont and graduated from The University of Georgia, where she earned her degree in African American studies and political science. She currently leads the Civil Rights Department at Parks & Crump in Tallahassee.
