Justice Initiative Speakers and Panelists

Partial List of Justice Initiative Panelists/Speakers/Presenters

• Sparky Abraham – Founder of Jubilee Legal
• Enumale Agada – Oversight Council at U.S. House of Representatives
• Corinne Beckwith – associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• Whitney Benns – Harvard Graduate School of Education, Triad Consulting Group
• Sarah Boyette – Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia Conviction Integrity Unit
• Khiara Bridges – Professor, Berkeley Law
• Ruby-Beth Buitekant – Associate Director of Movement Partnerships, Movement Law Lab
• Jim Ferg Cadima – Deputy Legal Director, Lambda Legal
• Carmia Caesar – George Washington University Law School, Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
  
• Bennett Capers – Professor of Law, Director of Center on Race, Law & Justice, Fordham University
• Esme Caramello – Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard University
• Martha Chamallas – Professor, The Ohio State University, Author
• Joi Cheney – Executive Director of the Washington Bureau and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy with the National Urban League
• Connie Cho – Attorney, Communities for a Better Environment
• Sumi Cho – Director of Strategic Initiatives, African American Policy Forum
• Erin Miles Cloud– Co-Director/Co-Founder of Movement for Family Power
• Kimberlé Crenshaw – Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia, University, UCLA Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights
• Erik Crew – Attorney, Haitian Bridge Alliance
• D Dangaran – Movement Lawyering and Litigation Fellow at Rights Behind Bars
• Natasha M. Dartigue – Maryland State Public Defender
• Lauren Dubin – Georgetown Law School Office of Public Interest Advising
• Maggie Ellinger-Locke, environmental justice staff attorney for the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center.
• Juan Espinoza – Artist, Equal Justice Works Fellow
• Renay Frankel – Director for Public Interest and Government Northeastern Law School
• Kamau Franklin: Founder of Community Movement Builders, Inc.
• Andrew Free – Immigrant Civil Rights
• Marshall Ganz – Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society
• Emily Gerrick – Policy Director, Texas Fair Defense Project
• Becky Gould – Executive Director, Nebraska Appleseed
• Alana Greer – Director and Co-Founder, Community Justice Project
• Rhiannon Hamam – Public Defender, Podcast Host, 5-4 Podcast
• Cheryl Harris – Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, UCLA School of Law
• Justin Hansford – Director, Thurgood Marhsall Civil Rights Center, Howard University School of Law
• Jon Hanson – Alan A. Stone Professor of Law, Director, Systemic Justice Project
• Fareed Nassor Hayat – Professor, CUNY School of Law
• Micah Herskind: organizer, policy advocate, and writer
• Robert Saleem Holbrook – Abolitionist Law Center, Law Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Christian Lassiter – Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law; Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland
• Lam Ho – Executive Director, Beyond Legal Aid
• Tara Houska – Tribal attorney and advocate
• Amber Ashley James – Attorney and Abolitionist
• Leah Kang is a Senior Attorney at Disability Rights California
• Rena Karefa-Johnson – Criminal Legal Reform Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns
• Alec Karakatsanis – Founder and Executive Director, Civil Rights Corps
• The Rev. Mekko Chebon Kernell: Mvskoke Ceremonial Leader
• Joey Longley – Senior Associate at Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute, Addiction and Public Policy Team
• Saru Matambanadzo – Professor, Tulane University School of Law; founding board member of ClassCrits.org and board member of LatCrit.org
• Rochelle McCain – Executive Director of the Professional Development Office at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Co-Director of its Externship Program
• Jeremy McQueen – The Black Iris Project
• Madeline Morcelle – National Health Law Program
• Meghan Nayak – Vera Institute of Justice, Reshaping Prosecution
• Zolboo Namkhaidorj – Organizer and Agent of Change, Northern California Program Co-Director at Communities for a Better Environment
• Oren Nimni – Litigation Director at Rights Behind Bars.
• Deanna Pantín Parrish – Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School, Consultant, Triad Consulting Group
• K-Sue Park – Professor, Georgetown Law
• Catherine Pattanayak – Harvard Office of Public Interest Advising
• Derecka Purnell – Human Rights Lawyer, Organizer, Author – Becoming Abolitionists
• Bill Quigley – Clinical Professor Emeritus, Loyola University of Law, New Orleans
• Maya Ragsdale – Executive Director, Beyond the Bars
• Tara Ramchandani – Civil Rights Attorney, Relman Colfax
• Titilayọ Rasaki – Policy & Campaigns Strategist, La Defensa
• Li Reed – Lawyer, teacher, strategist
• Renuka Rege – Policy Advisor in the Education Justice Project at Texas Appleseed
• Mark Rosenbaum – Director of Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law
• Melanie Rowen – Associate Director for Public Interest Programs, Career Development Office, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law
• Kendra Sena – Acting General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs for the New York State Office of Children and Family Services
• Alexa Shabecoff – Director, Connect at The Nighborhood Developers, former Assistant Dean for Public Service, Harvard Law School
• Paromita Shah – Executive Director of Just Futures Law
• Purvi Shah – Movement Law Lab
• Azadeh Shahshahani – Legal and Advocacy Director, Project South
• Kwame Shakur – a New Afrikan political prisoner, currently held captive in solitary confinement in SHU at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Indiana; Co-Founder and Chairman of the New Afrikan Liberation Collective; Director of the Prison Lives Matter movement.
• Jocelyn Simonson – Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
• David Singleton – Ohio Justice and Policy Center
• Tiffanny Smith – Managing Attorney, Clinical and Experiential Programs, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
• Kasey Suffredini – Freedom for All Americans
• Nikki Thanos – Movement Law Lab
• Gerald Torres -Professor of Environmental Justice and Professor of Law, Yale University
• Etienne Toussaint – Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law
• Bianca Tylek – Executive Dirctor, Worth Rises
• Joe Washington – human rights advocate, social critic, poet and peacebuilder
• Lisa Washington – Professor, Brooklyn Law School
• Dr. Cornel West – Activist, Author, Progressive Thought Leader
• Stephanie Williams – Regulatory Counsel in the Fraud Drugs Branch of the Food and Drug Administration
• Becky Wolozin – Senior Supervising attorney with the Immigrant Advocacy Program at the Legal Aid Justice Center and Director of the George Mason Law School Immigration Litigation Clinic