Written by Evan Eisenberg, President, University of South Florida SSDP. I had the opportunity to attend the invitation-only second meeting of the New Southern Strategy Coalition in Durham, North Carolina on February 7th and 8th. With leadership and funding from the Drug Policy Alliance, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the Georgia Justice Project and  many other social justice-oriented organizations (direct service providers and policy reform advocates), the  goal of the meeting was to develop a new regional strategy for Southern states that will bolster efforts of reformers and activists working on reform within individual coalition states throughout the South. The meeting was titled “Reducing Barriers to Reentry and Supporting Front-End Drug Policy Reform” but the conference went so far beyond that scope to encompass issues of civil rights and racism and the criminal justice system in general throughout most Southern states. The agenda highlighted three main areas of focus: drug policy, harm reduction, and collateral consequences.