Hosted by the Juvenile Justice Initiative in collaboration with the Emerging Adult Justice Project of the Columbia University Justice Lab

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Lawndale Conference Center, 3750 W. Ogden, 4th Fl.

International Perspectives on Emerging Adult Justice

Emerging Adult Justice Forum: International Perspectives and Opportunities for Reform in Illinois

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Lawndale Conference Center, 3750 W. Ogden, 4th Fl., Chicago

AGENDA

10:00 – 10:05 Welcome and Introductions – JJI Chair Michael Rodriguez

10:10– 10:30 EAJ in the U.S. and Illinois Vincent Schiraldi, Co-director of Justice Lab, Columbia University Elizabeth Clarke, Executive Director, Juvenile Justice Initiative

10:30 – 10:35 - Video – Fair and Just Prosecutors video https://fairandjustprosecution.org/

10:35 – 11:50 Raising the Age of Juvenile Jurisdiction to 21: Lessons from Germany Panelists: • Jörg Jesse, Director General Prison and Probation Administration, Ministry of Justice Mecklenburg-Western-Pomerania, Germany • Andrés Ritter, Chief Public Prosecutor, Rostock, Germany • , State Senator • Amara Enyia, former candidate for Mayor • Michelle Mbekeani, Juvenile Justice Policy Advisor, Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Moderator: Randolph Stone, former Director of the Mandel Legal Clinic at University of Chicago and former Public Defender in Cook County

11:50 – 1:30 Lunch with Reimagine Justice Educational Mission participants Moderator – Patrick Smith from WBEZ

1:30 – 2:15 Age-Appropriate Responses to Justice-Involved Emerging Adults: Perspectives from the Bench Panelists: • Justice Lana Peto Kujundžić, Croatia • Justice Aurelia Pucinski Appellate Court, 1st Judicial District • Judge Colleen Sheehan, Emerging Adult Restorative Justice Community Court , North Lawndale Moderator: Era Laudermilk, Policy Deputy, Cook County Public Defender

2:15 – 3:45 Opportunities for Reform in IL – Next Steps • State Senator Robert Peters • State Representative • State Representative • State Representative • State Representative Moderator - former legislator and JJI Board Member Litesia Wallace

3:45 – 4:00 Final Remarks….JJI Chair Michael Rodriguez REIMAGINE EMERGING ADULT JUSTICE SUMMIT SPEAKER BIO’s

Amara Enyia got her start as a journalist, desiring to capture the human experience through stories. In addition to degrees in journalism and political science, she earned a Masters degree in education, a law degree where she focused on international and environmental law, and a PhD in Education Policy. Amara has always sought to translate complex public policy to a form that is easily understood and used by the public to arm people with the information they need to make the best decisions for their lives. She created “Thanks for Paying Your Taxes” – an animated series that simplifies public finance topics to help residents understand how their tax dollars are being used. Amara founded the Institute for Cooperative Economics and Economic Innovation, a social lab whose primary purpose is to educate, assist, and advocate for the expansion of cooperative economic models and other innovative economic development concepts that would diversify Chicago’s economic eco-system such as worker-owned cooperatives, housing cooperatives, community land trusts, sharing economy platforms, and financial institutions and products that support these enterprises. She co-authored the book “Chicago Isn’t Broke: Funding the City We Deserve” which proposes fiscally responsible revenue-generating proposals for the City as well as ways to eliminate corruption and waste in city government. She is a staunch advocate for transparency in city government and equity as a matter of policy.

Senator Laura Fine represents the 9th Senate District, and formerly served as the State Representative for the 17th Legislative District from 2013 – 2019. During this time, she was a champion of women’s rights, an advocate for public education and a strong supporter of a clean environment. In addition, she fought hard to provide quality healthcare for Illinois residents. Prior to serving on the state legislature, Senator Fine was an instructor in the Political Science Department at Northeastern Illinois University and served as the Clerk of Northfield Township. Senator Fine has also worked in radio and television news for various media outlets throughout the Midwest. Senator Fine holds a B.A. in telecommunications from Indiana University and an M.A. in political science from Northeastern Illinois University. She is a graduate of the Illinois Women’s Institute for Leadership and the Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development, an Edgar Fellow, and a Henry Toll Fellow.

Robyn Gabel is a State Representative for the 18th District. Throughout her career, Robyn Gabel has maintained a strong commitment to serving the people of Illinois as an advocate for women, children and families. She served as the Executive Director of the Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition, a non profit advocacy organization, from 1988 to 2010 and previously worked as legislative aid to Alderman (now Congressman) Luis Gutierrez. Her legislative priorities include affordable, accessible health care, environment and sustainability issues, education, and economic development. She has a B.A. from Beloit College, an M.S.P.H. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health and an M.J. in Health Law from Loyola University Chicago.

Will Guzzardi is a State Representative for the 39th District. A resident of Logan Square, he volunteers as a community organizer with numerous local organizations. With a background in comparative literature from Brown University, he has worked in communications at the University of Chicago, and as a reporter at Huffington Post Chicago. In Springfield, he fights for social and economic justice. Full-time legislator; co-chair, Illinois House Progressive Caucus; B.A., Brown University; former journalist, Huffington Post Chicago; former head writer, University of Chicago Office of College Admissions; resident of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.

Joerg Jesse, Director General Prison and Probation Administration, Ministry of Justice Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany since 2003. He has been featured on CBS 60 minutes: Jesse says German inmates deserve rehabilitation, not retribution, during their prison stays. "The real goal is re-integration into society, train them to find a different way to handle their situation outside, life without further crimes, life without creating new victims," says Jesse. "We cannot see the sense in just locking people up for their whole life. Your prisons will fill up and you'll have to build new prisons and so on and I think that was the situation in the U.S." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-is-prison-60-minutes- goes-to-germany/ Lana Peto Kujundzic - a juvenile judge with more than 30 years of experience in the jurisprudence of the Municipal and County Court in Zagreb. Employed at the Zagreb County Court, the first instance and second instance of Council for youth, president of the Juvenile department and president of the Association of Youth and Family Judges and specialists (AYFJS) in Croatia. As the president of AYFJS implements a diversion project for youth called “Stop program” since 2012 in the City of Zagreb and the City of Velika Gorica. In the years 2013 and 2014 she introduced restorative justice in the City of Zagreb for misdemeanour treatment of children. Participated in the drafting of laws: The Law on Juvenile Courts, the Law on Sanctions for Juveniles and the Law on the Ombudsman for Children. Regular lecturer at the Faculty of Law, School of Social Work, the Judicial Academy, the Bar Academy and the Police Academy and regular participator and presenter in international conferences and congresses of criminologists, victimology, criminal and juvenile law. Professional consultant for the UNICEF Montenegro and the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro and UNICEF Croatia and Croatian Ministry of Justice for juvenile justice. The author of a dozen scientific articles and books on children`s rights. Active member of the committees of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Social Policy and Youth, related to children`s rights and a member of the ethics committees of the Polyclinic for the Child Protection of Zagreb and Psychiatric Hospital for Children Zagreb.

Era Laudermilk is the deputy public defender of policy and strategic planning at the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender. She is also an adjunct professor at DePaul University School of Law. She previously served as deputy director of the Illinois Justice Project and chief of staff for the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.

Michelle Mbekeani is the Policy Advisor for Juvenile Justice to the Cook County State’s Attorney. She has a background as community justice staff attorney at the Sergeant Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. She has worked on policing in schools, and on voting rights and access in jail. She serves on the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission, and in 2017 was awarded the Crain’s Chicago Business 20 in their 20’s award. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, and started her legal career in the Civil Rights Division of Equip for Equality. Mbekeani has a B.A. from Stony Brook University in German language and literature, and as a former Émigré Memorial German Fellow, she worked for Germany’s State Parliament in the Dept. of Education and Integration advocating for primary/secondary language assistance programs for immigrant children in Germany.

Aaron Ortiz is a State Representative for the 1st District. A full-time legislator he is a former educator and college counselor at CPS. Ortiz has a B.S. in urban planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His background includes membership in the Chicago Teachers Union, the Local School Council for the Back of the Yards High School, and volunteer service as a soccer coach. Ortiz is a lifelong resident of the Gage Park neighborhood in Chicago.

Robert Peters State Senator for Illinois' 13th District. As a political organizer, Peters successfully fought to require Cook County judges to set affordable bail amounts for all defendants. Passionate advocate for criminal justice reform, clean energy jobs and strong public education.

Judge Aurelia Pucinski was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District, in 2010. She served as a Circuit Court judge in Cook County from 2004 to 2010. As a trial judge she heard more than 10,000 Domestic Violence cases, followed by an assignment to hear adoption, election, property tax and mental health cases. She is particularly interested in the law as it affects senior citizens and the disabled, having created a program in Domestic Violence Court to give additional protections and services to senior citizen victims of domestic abuse. She served as the Clerk of the Court from 1988 to 2000 where two of her major accomplishments were getting child support checks processed in record time and computerizing courtrooms. She started practicing law in 1976 in a neighborhood law office where she developed a reputation for pro bono work, including representing citizens who sued the Chicago Board of Education to keep a local school open, a case she won in the Appellate Court. A native Chicagoan, Judge Pucinski is a graduate of DePaul College of Law.

Andrés Ritter is since 2013 Chief Prosecutor at the Prosecution Office in Rostock, Germany, with a staff of 125 prosecutors and other personnel. Having being appointed as prosecutor to the Juvenile Delinquency Department in 1995 he has since acquired a wide expertise on criminal law as public prosecutor leading extensive investigations on general and special assignments in different fields including drug offences, capital crimes and white collar criminality. In addition, he has been in charge of administration, organization and policy matters within the Prosecutor’s and the General Prosecutor’s Office, where he has been responsible for dossiers related to juvenile criminality matters for more than 5 years. In his international work, Andrés has contributed to several projects within the framework of modernization and change processes in Latin America, last in 2017 and 2018 as consultant to the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation on projects related to Mexico`s Criminal Justice Transformation. Moreover, Andrés has been since 2015 German delegate to the Central Committee of the International Association of Judges (IAJ) and member of the Study Commission on Criminal Law and Procedure of the IAJ. Previously, he was a member of the advisory board to the German Federal Criminology Studies Organization between 2010 and 2012. He has been involved in the site visit to Germany in March 2018 discussing the special integrative approach to Youth Criminal Justice in Germany. Andrés is a graduate of Rheinisch-Friedrichs-Willhelm- University in Bonn, Germany, and holds a postgraduate degree on European Law and Studies from Saarbrücken University.

Michael “Mike” D. Rodriguez is a lifelong resident of Chicago’s Little Village and the current Chair of the Juvenile Justice Initiative. He has over 20 years experience as a community organizer and nonprofit leader, having served as Executive Director of Enlace Chicago, a nonprofit organization in Little Village with programs in violence prevention, education, community development, health and immigration advocacy. Through his work at Enlace, former President Barack Obama named Mike one of 12 national Champions of Change in Youth Violence Prevention in 2012. Mike was recently elected as alderman for the 22nd ward. His background with the Civic Leadership Academy, Leadership Greater Chicago, and national work as vice president of La Raza, Affiliate Council (now Unidos US), along with his gubernatorial appointment to the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission, all render him uniquely qualified for leadership in juvenile and young adult justice reformation in Chicago. Mike has a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from DePaul University.

Vincent Schiraldi, Co-Director of the Columbia University Justice Lab, has extensive experience in public life, founding the policy think tank, the Justice Policy Institute, then moving to government as director of the juvenile corrections in Washington DC, and then as Commissioner of the City Department of Probation. Most recently Schiraldi served as Senior Advisor to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Schiraldi gained a national reputation as a fearless reformer who emphasized the humane and decent treatment of the men, women, and children under his correctional supervision. He pioneered efforts at community-based alternatives to incarceration in NYC and Washington DC. Schiraldi received a MSW from , and a Bachelor of Arts from .

Judge Colleen F. Sheehan was elected Cook County Circuit Court Judge in 2000. Currently, she is dually assigned to the Juvenile Justice and First Municipal Divisions in Chicago. She also serves on the Illinois Supreme Court Juvenile Justice Committee, Strategic Planning Committee and is a Board member of the Illinois Judicial College. She is has been instrumental in several restorative justice projects including the new Restorative Justice Community Court in Cook County, which opened in 2017.

Patrick Smith is a criminal justice reporter for WBEZ. Before joining the criminal justice desk, Patrick produced All Things Considered and Morning Edition for WBEZ. He joined WBEZ as an intern in 2013 and never left. Patrick has a B.S. in news reporting and writing from Columbia College Chicago. His reporting has won awards from the Associated Press, the Chicago Headline Club, the Radio Television Digital News Association, the Chicago Bar Association and others.

Randolph Stone was the Director of the Mandel Clinic from 1991 to 2001, directed the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic, and previously served as the Public Defender of Cook County.. He has also served as deputy director for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, partner in the Chicago firm of Stone & Clark, attorney with the Criminal Defense Consortium of Cook County, and as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow for the Neighborhood Legal Service Program in Washington, DC. Stone is a past chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section. He serves on several boards and committees including Youth Advocate Programs, Inc..

Celina Villanueva is a Representative for the 21st district. Villanueva is a resident of Little Village. She has worked as an outreach director and has worked as a youth engagement manager at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Villanueva is an alumna of the University of Illinois, Urbana where she earned a B.A in Latina/Latino Studies with minors in African-American Studies and Spanish. She was a speaker at the 2018 Women’s March in Chicago. is a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives from a Rockford-based district. She most recently ran for Lieutenant Governor in the Democratic primary alongside former State Senator . Her policy priorities were childcare assistance, a $15 minimum wage, healthcare expansion and fair tax structure. Wallace is a graduate of Western Illinois University, and has a Ph.D. in educational psychology, with work experience as a mental health counselor and professor. She co-founded the Rockford Anti-Racism Network.

JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE Staff: Elizabeth Clarke is the founder and President of the Juvenile Justice Initiative. Prior to developing the Juvenile Justice Initiative, she served as Juvenile Justice Counsel for the Office of the Cook County Public Defender for six years, and served for 15 years in the Office of the State Appellate Defender, including appointments as Legislative Liaison and Juvenile Justice Coordinator. Ms. Clarke is the co-founder and director of the Midwest Juvenile Defender Center, a co-founder of the North American Council on Juvenile Justice, an advisory board member of the National Juvenile Defender Center, and a co-founder and active member of the National Juvenile Justice Network. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and serves on both the Child Law and Legislative Committees.

Luis Klein is the Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the Juvenile Justice Initiative, where his work focuses on legislation and policy reform for youth in Illinois. Prior to coming on board at JJI, Luis spent the last four years as the District Director for State rep. Will Guzzardi, where he developed and executed the representative’s legislative agenda and budget. Luis has extensive expertise in campaign finance and field operations, and has worked as the Director of Finance for multiple campaigns, where he was in charge of donor cultivation and event management. Luis earned his Bachelors degree in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago. You can contact Luis at [email protected].

Jessica Uzoho is the Director of Communications and Development at the Juvenile Justice Initiative. Prior to coming on board at JJI, Jessica worked as the Director of Finance for multiple political campaigns, where she was in charge of large and small donor cultivation, coalition building, database management, event planning, and volunteer recruitment and management. As an Organizer for SEIU, Jessica built and maintained strong relationships with non union and union members and was able to build a strong coalition of leaders. Prior to joining SEIU, Jessica also served as a Fellow for the Kim Foxx for State’s Attorney Campaign and a Fellow for State rep. . Jessica earned her Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Chicago State University and is currently a Master in Public Management candidate at Johns Hopkins University. You can contact Jessica at [email protected].

EMERGING ADULT JUSTICE PROJECT, Columbia University Staff:

Lael Elizabeth Hiam Chester is Director of the Emerging Adult Project at Columbia University’s Justice Lab and leads the national and international research on Emerging Adult Justice. Lael is an attorney who has focused her career on juvenile, criminal and civil rights law and policy. After graduating from Barnard College and Harvard Law School, she was the Albert Martin Sacks Clinical Fellow at the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard and then joined the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. For 12 years, she served as Executive Director of Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ), a statewide non-profit dedicated to improving the juvenile justice system. Lael led the successful Justice for Kids Campaign, ending the practice in Massachusetts of automatically prosecuting and sentencing all 17 year olds as adults, regardless of the severity of the offense. Her expertise on other advocacy campaigns include school-to-prison pipeline, parent- child privilege, racial disparities and over-use of secure confinement.

Selen Siringil Perker is a Senior Research Associate with the Emerging Adult Project at the Justice Lab. Her work aims to bridge academic research on emerging/young adult justice with policy and practice at all stages, from research design to implementation and dissemination. As an international attorney and justice reform specialist, she works closely with government officials, justice leaders and international organizations, including the World Bank and UNDP, to assist local efforts to measure and drive criminal justice reform in the United States and abroad. Previously, Selen was a Research Fellow with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at for the Indicators for Development: Safety and Justice project. She holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, and a Master’s in International and European Law from the University of Paris I (Panthéon – Sorbonne).