Friday, October 20 – Summit 2017
OPENING SESSION
INTRODUCTION
Philip Inglima | President, National Juvenile Defender Center Board of Directors
WELCOME
Hon. Barbara Vigil | Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court
OPENING REMARKS
Mary Ann Scali | Executive Director, National Juvenile Defender Center
SPECIAL GUEST
Aniyah Smith | Spoken Word Artist, Split This Rock
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Raha Jorjani | Public Defender, Immigration Representation Project, Office of the Alameda County Public Defender
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Reducing Racial Disparities in School Pushout: Creating Student Expulsion Preventation Projects
Matthew Giesfeldt, Richard Jones, Diane Rondini-Harness
Communities First: Youth Charged with Serious Offenses Should Go Home Too
Brooke Burns, Jason Ziedenberg
Connecting the Unconnected: Building a Rural Juvenile Defender Network
Julia Alanen, Gary Blume, Lauren Dollar, Kisha Petticolas
Defending the Defenders: Skills for Defender Resilience Against Secondary Trauma
Patricia Kerig
- Developing a Stress Early Warning System
- Responding to a Traumatized Youth Who Has Been Triggered
- Responding to Youth Disclosures about Trauma
- Ways to Engage Mindfulness
Eliminating Solitary Confinement: Unique Approaches for Juvenile Defenders
Jessica Feierman, Jennifer Lutz
- Recent and Pending Cases Challenging Solitary Confinement of Children
- Recent Youth Solitary Confinement Laws
- Understanding Scope and Use of Solidarity Confinement in Juvenile Facilities
- Unlocking Youth – Strong Juvenile Defense
Breaking Down the Walls: Lessons Learned from Successful Youth
Decarceration Campaigns
Sheila Bedi, Sue Burrell, Carmen Daugherty, Will Harrell
Probation Is Not a Win: What Is Your Role?
Meredith Desautels, Robert Schwartz, Ji Seon Song
Leaning into the Chaos
Patricia Lee, Susan Mangold, Liz Ryan, Mary Ann Scali
Kids Talk: Suppressing Youth Admissions, “Confessions,” and Other
Statements
Randy Hertz
MORNING GENERAL SESSION
PLENARY
Defending Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Advocating for Clients who
Lack Stable Housing
Angela Vigil, Moderator | Partner and Executive Director of the Pro Bono Practice, Baker McKenzie
Brian Blalock | Director of Law and Policy, Tipping Point Community
Sabrina Forte | Staff Attorney, Youth Justice Project, Bay Area Legal Aid
Megan Gibbard Kline | Director, A Way Home America
Robert Listenbee | Visiting Fellow, Stoneleigh Foundation
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Inherently Unreliable: Challenging Identifications at Suppression and Trial
Elana Roffman, Heather Squatriglia
You Put What Online?! Social Media and the Juvenile Defense Case
Anna Carlozzi, Breanna Kantor, Randee Waldman
Defending Childhood: Miller Cases Need Juvenile Defenders
Pamela Jones, Antoinette Kavanaugh, Shobha Mahadev
- Miller Records List Guide
- Prospects For Developing Expert Evidence in Juvenile “Montgomery” Resentencing Cases
- Retaining a Forensic Mental Health Expert in Miller Cases
Monitoring the Monitor: Challenging the Use of Electronic Monitoring in
Juvenile Court
Catherine Crump, Kate Weisburd
Defending Against Homelessness: Skills for Frontline Attorneys
Sabrina Forte, Leola Hardy, Erin Palacios
A Trial Attorney’s Framework for Litigating Decarceration
Meredith Desautels, Tiffany Sizemore-Thompson, Ji Seon Song
I Must Attest, Don’t Arrest! The Civil Citation Alternative
Rob Mason, Donna Pugh, Theda Roberts
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Statutes & Memorandum – Juvenile Civil Citations
- Stepping Up: Florida’s Top Juvenile Civil Citation Efforts
There Ought to Be a Law: A Policy Primer for Defenders
Amy Borror, Eduardo Ferrer, Christina Gilbert
The Ball Is in Your Court: Planning and Presenting the Case for the Defense
Randy Hertz
AFTERNOON GENERAL SESSION
PLENARY
The Immigration Crisis: What Juvenile Defenders Need to Know
gladys carrión, Moderator | Juvenile Justice Reform Advocate, National Juvenile Defender Center Board of Directors
Angie Junck | Supervising Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Jennifer Podkul | Director of Policy, Kids in Need of Defense
Pamela Vickrey | Utah Juvenile Defender Attorneys