House for a discussion related to “Exploring Issues and Solutions at the Intersection of Gun Violence, Policing and Mass Incarceration.” He met with the Obama Administration’s Domestic Policy Council to give his insight on his research with youth who have experienced gun violence, aggressive policing, and the school-to-prison pipeline. This event was organized by the Joint Center and the Joyce Foundation. In 2017, Rios was awarded the Public Understanding of Sociology Award by The American Sociological Association. He was one of eight major award recipients from an association of over 13,000 members. In April 2019 the State of California passed a bill, AB 413, changing the label of “at-risk” to “at-promise” in education code, policy, and practice. For years, Rios and other education reformers had advocated for this change. In his 2011 book, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, Rios wrote: “At-promise youth are those youth who have traditionally been labeled “at-risk”—youth who have been marginalized, have marginalized themselves, or both. An issue with labeling young people as “risks” is that this may generate the very stigma that I am analyzing in this study. Therefore, I am calling them what many community workers call them: at-promise.” By 2019, Rios and other advocates had convinced school districts and educators across the U.S. to change the way they labeled at-promise young people. The state legislator picked up on this momentum and made the motion to eliminate “at-risk” from the law:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: AB 413, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Education: at-promise youth. Existing law uses the terms “at-risk” and “high-risk” to describe youth for purposes of various provisions of the Education Code. and Penal Codes. This bill would delete the term “at-risk” and “high-risk” and would replace those terms it with the terms “at-promise” and “high-promise” for purposes of these provisions. The bill would, for purposes of the Education Code, define “at-promise” and “high-promise” to have the same meanings as “at-risk” and “high-risk,” respectively. Existing law defines and refers to specified young people with the presence of certain risk factors that make them more likely to be involved with criminal street gangs or the criminal justice system as “at-risk youth.” This bill would change the references in statute to these individuals from “at-risk youth” to “at-promise youth.” Bibliography Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (NYU Press, 2011) Street Life: Poverty,