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Restoring Justice Bellarmine Forum 2013
A Message from the Dean
LMU Community and Friends of LMU,
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 2013 Bellarmine Forum, “Restoring Justice.” Each year, the Bellarmine Forum addresses a topic of international importance and urgency. This year’s forum explores the ways that practices of restorative justice can confront brokenness and restore re- lationships within schools, institutions, and communities. The purpose of the forum is to discuss and debate the topic critically and constructively; yet, consistent with BCLA’s commitment to an education that transforms, the forum also seeks to sharpen awareness, challenge presuppositions, effectuate meaningful transformation of perspectives, and stimulate engagement with the world. When addressing an international gathering of Jesuit educators in 2010, Father Adolfo Nicolás, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, noted that “… in Jesuit education, the depth of learning and imagination encom- passes and integrates intellectual rigor with reflection on the experience of reality together with the creative imagination to work toward constructing a more humane, just, sustain- able, and faith-filled world.” In order to achieve this integration, this year’s forum brings together internationally-recognized scholars and practitioners of restorative justice, repre- senting a wide range of disciplines, experiences, and perspectives, and invites participation from students, staff, faculty, and community members.
You are welcome to attend as many sessions as you like and may you find connections between the theme of the forum and your courses and research activities. The Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts community hopes that the forum will stimulate robust conversations inside and outside of the classroom and deepen your understanding of the topic and its implications for our communities.
Welcome to the 2013 Bellarmine Forum,
Michael J. O’Sullivan Interim Dean Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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Welcome to the 13th Annual Bellarmine Forum on the topic of “Restoring Justice,” a multidisciplinary reflection on the theories and practices of justice in our contemporary society. The forum focuses on the promise of restoring justice as a mechanism for rebuilding relationships and communities and reintegrating offenders into society.
The forum will explore restorative justice from interdisciplinary perspectives. The presentations and events will show restorative justice practices in Los Angeles as well as nationally and internationally. The forum aims to galvanize campus-wide discussions and actions promoting understanding and engaged learning.
Basic Descriptions of Restorative Justice
“Restorative justice is not simply a way of reforming the criminal justice sys- tem; it is a way of transforming the entire legal system, our family lives, our conduct in the workplace, our practice of politics. Its vision is of a holistic change in the way we do justice in the world.” John Braithwaite, “Principles of Restorative Justice.” In Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Com- peting or Reconcilable Paradigms, edited by A. von Hirsch, J. Roberts, A. Bottoms, J. Roach, and M. Schiff, 1.
“Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender, and the com- munity in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation, and reassurance.” Howard Zehr, Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice, 181
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Jonathan Rothchild, Scott Wood, Co-director, Bellarmine Forum Co-director, Bellarmine Forum
Welcome to LMU’s 2013 Bellarmine Forum. You are joining a series of conver- sations among committed leaders in the international Restorative Justice movement. On behalf of our organizing committee, we join our presenters in listening for your voice as these conversations lead to action and myriad practical ways in which we can pursue a justice that restores and transforms.
A scan of the program reveals dozens of perspectives on Restorative Justice, and an array of speakers, panelists, films and interactive experiences. We encourage you to attend several of these events - both those that are directly connected to your own interests, as well as those that strike you as novel.
Our Forum aims to advance ongoing Restorative Justice reforms of the California prison system, and seeks transformations in a broader social context. Our presenters invite you to engage with them in asking how these principles and practices apply to diverse endeavors. For instance, how is Restorative Justice renewing urban neighbor- hoods, promoting successful school discipline, incorporating indigenous traditions of peacemaking, and bringing healing to those harmed by sexual violence?
As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., so often quoted, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Thank you for joining us in our effort to bend that arc toward a justice that restores and transforms.
Jonathan Rothchild, Associate Professor of Theological Studies Scott Wood, Director, CURes Restorative Justice Project
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BELLARMINE FORUM 2013
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Schedule of Events
Sunday, October 20 Film Festival: Depictions of Justice
12:00 Justice in Film Series (Multiple locations: Concurrent showing of films) Films: “The House I Live In” “Gideon’s Army” “From Critical Resistance to A New Way of Life” Registration is required; for more information, visit: www.justiceontrialfilmfestival.org
4:30- Bringing Down the New Jim Crow *S 6:00 Roski Dining Hall Moderator: Cheryl Grills, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, LMU Michelle Alexander, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University School of Law
Monday, October 21 Why Does Justice Need Restoring?
10:00 Welcome and Overview of the Bellarmine Forum Hilton 100 Michael O’Sullivan, Interim BCLA Dean
10:15- The Social Consequences of Mass Incarceration *S 11:30 Hilton 100 Moderator: Jonathan Rothchild, Associate Professor of Theological Studies, LMU Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project
4:30- Higher Ground: Understanding the Dynamics that Make Justice Possible 5:45 Hilton 100 Moderator: Franky Carrillo, LMU Student Bryan Stevenson, Professor, New York University School of Law
6:00- Justice in Film Series 7:30 (Multiple Locations: Concurrent Showing of the Films) Films: “Broken on All Sides” in St. Robert’s Hall “The House I Live In” in Hilton 100 “Redemption of a Prosecutor” in WWH Family Suite Registration is required; for more information, visit: www.justiceontrialfilmfestival.org
7:30- Restoring Justice 9:00 Hilton 100 Moderator: Rachel Lang, MA (Theology) Student Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
*Can’t make it to the event? For events marked with an “S”, you can watch the stream live on the forum website: http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/thebellarmineforum.
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Tuesday, October 22 Restorative Justice and the Law
9:25- Restoring Voices: Victims and Survivors 10:40 UNH 1000 Moderator: Scott Wood, Director, CURes Restorative Justice Project Lauren Abramson, Founding Director, Community Conferencing Center and Assistant Professor, Child Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Sujatha Baliga, Director of Restorative Justice Project, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Ruett Foster, Senior Pastor, Community Bible Church, Culver City, CA
12:15- Retribution, Rehabilitation and Restoration in Criminal Law 1:30 UNH 1000 Moderator: Evan Gerstmann, Professor of Political Science and Law, LMU Honorable Joan M. Gottschall, U.S. District Judge, Northern Illinois District John Parrish, Associate Professor of Political Science, LMU Kimberly D. Richman, Associate Professor of Sociology, Legal Studies, and Criminal Justice Studies, University of San Francisco
12:15- Restoring Innocence and Justice 1:30 Loyola Law School Lounge (Downtown) Moderator: Scott Wood, Director, CURes Restorative Justice Project Ellen Eggers, Office of the State Public Defender, Sacramento Brentford Ferreira, Project for the Innocent, Loyola Law School Juan Mejia, Habeas Corpus Litigation Unit, L.A. District Attorney’s Office
4:30- Punishment and Restoration in Los Angeles *S 6:00 Hilton 100 Moderator: Laurie Levenson, Professor of Law and David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy, Loyola Law School Jackie Lacey, L.A. County District Attorney Reception to Follow in St. Robert’s Auditorium
Wednesday, October 23 Harms, Individuals, and Communities
10:00- Restoring Justice and Community Engagement 11:50 UNH 1000 Moderator: Javier Stauring, Co-Director, Los Angeles Archdiocese Office of Restorative Justice Lee Baca, Sheriff of Los Angeles County Honorable Donna Quigley Groman, Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County David Muhammad, CEO, Solutions Inc.
1:00- Restoring Justice and Racial and Civil Rights 2:50 UNH 1000 Moderator: Stan Shimotsu, Chief Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles County (Retired)
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Luis Arriaga, S.J., Formerly a Human Rights Lawyer in Mexico and current LMU Ed.D. Student Honorable Mark Bennett, U.S. District Court Judge, Northern Iowa District Morris Jenkins, Dean of the College of Health and Human Services, Southeast Missouri State University Mark Osler, Professor, St. Thomas University School of Law
4:30- Restoring Justice, Juveniles, and Schools *S 6:00 UNH 1000 Moderator: Maggie Bove-LaMonica and Darin Earley, LMU Family of Schools Maisie Chin, Director, Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE) Kimberly Lesure, Assistant Principal, WESM High School Schoene Mahmood, Restorative Justice Specialist, CURes Restorative Justice Project Steven K. Zipperman, Chief of the Los Angeles School Police Department
7:00- Restorative Justice and Juvenile Justice *S 9:00 Hilton 100 Moderator: Ruth Cusick, Staff Attorney, Children’s Rights Project, Public Counsel Law Center Honorable Irma J. Brown, Inglewood Juvenile Court Judge Elizabeth Calvin, Senior Advocate, Human Rights Watch, Children’s Rights Division
Thursday, October 24 Spiritual and Theological Dimensions of Restorative Justice
9:25- Peacemaking and Tribal Justice *S 10:40 UNH 1000 Moderator: Honorable Dorothy Wright Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Honorable Don Owen Costello, Chief Judge, Coquille Indian Tribe Seth Weiner, Attorney/Restorative Justice Practitioner
12:15- Ignatian Spirituality, Catholic Theology and Practices 1:30 of Restorative Justice *S UNH 1000 Moderator: Jonathan Rothchild, Associate Professor of Theological Studies, LMU Michael Kennedy, S.J., Director, Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative William O’Neill, S.J., Professor, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University Stephen Pope, Professor, Boston College
3:00- Interfaith Panel on Forgiveness and Reconciliation *S 4:30 UNH 1000 Moderator: Rabbi Ilana Schachter, Hillel Rabbi, Coordinator, Jewish Student Life, LMU Linda Buck, C.S.J., C.S.J. Center for Reconciliation and Justice, LMU Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer, Professor and Chair, Business, LMU Azim Khamisa, Tariq Khamisa Foundation
* Can’t make it to the event? For events marked with an “S”, you can watch the stream live on the forum website: http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/thebellarmineforum.
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7:00- Forgiveness and Healing in the Wake of Violence 9:00 Murphy Recital Hall Moderator: Stephen Pope, Professor, Boston College Screening of documentary “Unlikely Friends”, Leslie Neale, Director Luz Ruiz Tung Nguyen
Friday, October 25 The Processes of Restoring Justice
10:00- An Open Invitation to Participate in Restorative Justice I: Peacemaking 12:00 Circles St. Robert’s Auditorium Honorable Don Owen Costello, Chief Judge, Coquille Indian Tribe
2:00- Restorative Justice I: Peacemaking Circles (By Invitation Only) 4:00 St. Robert’s Auditorium Honorable Don Owen Costello, Chief Judge, Coquille Indian Tribe
Saturday, October 26 Honoring Those Engaged in Restoring Justice
2:30- Hidden Heroes: C.S.J. Center for Reconciliation and Justice Awards Ceremony 4:00 Murphy Recital Hall Interview Transcriptions/Edited Script by playwright Doris Baizley Directed by Judith Royer, C.S.J. Visual/Sound by Rob Hillig Awardees • Daniela Corona, founder of the new LMU Service Organization, Espere, and service related to Human Trafficking • Holli Levitsky, Director of Jewish Studies Program and Associate Professor of English • Elmo Johnson, Events Specialist, Events and Classroom Management • Mary McCullough, Associate Dean, School of Education • The Loyola Law School Center for Restorative Justice: Organizational Award • Scott Wood, Director, CURes Restorative Justice Project • Seth Weiner, Attorney/Restorative Justice Practitioner
Writers/Actors Jesse Arrow, Doris Baizley, Linda Bannister, Mark Bramhall, Jami Brandli, Catherine Christof, Andrea Odinov Fuller, Adriana Sevahn Nichols, and DeSean Terry
Awards ceremony for six C.S.J. Center for Reconciliation and Justice recipients. The lives and work of these awardees who have effected social change through service and action on campus, in the local Los Angeles area and/or abroad, will be dramatized. Awardees were selected from both the LMU Westchester and Law School campuses from among the faculty, staff and students. Followed by a Reception
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Sunday, October 27 Evening Mass
8:00 LMU Chapel
Monday, October 28 Restoring Justice at LMU
10:00- Judicial Affairs, Peer Courts, and Restorative Justice 10:50 UNH 1000 Moderator: Sarah Babb, Career Development and Employer Relations Specialist, LMU Francesca Piumetti, Associate Dean of Students/ Chief Judicial Officer, LMU Brittany Lunney, Peter Lillard, and Melissa Ryan, LMU Students
11:00- My Experience of Restorative Justice, LMU Undergraduate Student 12:30 Experiences with Community-Based Learning Alternative Breaks and Community Action UNH 1000 Moderator: Pam Rector, Center for Service and Action, LMU Miriam Vega, LMU Undergraduate, CBL Experience Cristina Medina, LMU Undergraduate, 186th Street School, Peace First
2:00- The Trail of Tears…and Redemption? A Tour of Restorative Justice 3:50 UNH 1000 Franky Carrillo, LMU Student and Leader of Alternative Breaks Trip Through the California Criminal Justice System Andrew Dilts, Assistant Professor of Political Science, LMU LMU Students Attending the Trip
6:00- Restoring Healthy Communities 8:30 UNH 1000 Eric Strauss, President’s Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Urban Resilience, LMU Scott Wood, Director, CURes Restorative Justice Project Reception: East Atrium, University Hall
Tuesday, October 29th Local, National, and International Trends in Restorative Justice
10:00- Restorative Justice: Los Angeles, California, and National Contexts 11:50 UNH 1000 Moderator: Scott Wood, Director, CURes Restorative Justice Project Joseph H. Paul Jr., Program Manager for the Jericho Training Center for the Re-Entry Services Program Mark Potter, Assistant to the Jesuit Provincial, California Province Alicia Virani, California Conference for Equality and Justice * Can’t make it to the event? For events marked with an “S”, you can watch the stream live on the forum website: http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/thebellarmineforum.
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2:00- International Contexts of Restorative Justice 3:50 UNH 1000 Moderator: Paula Mitchell, Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School Alan McGuckian, S.J., Playwright, Northern Ireland Don John Omale, Salem University, Nigeria Philip Orr, Protestant Historian, Northern Ireland Jason Powell, Hope Renewed International, Guatemala City Ashley Williams, Hope Renewed International, Guatemala City
7:00- The Historical, Theological, and Cultural Challenges of Repairing 9:30 Relations in Northern Ireland UNH 1000 A reading of the play, 1912, A Hundred Years (Authored by Philip Orr and Alan McGuckian, S.J.)
Wednesday, October 30th Restorative Justice: Perspectives and Hard Cases
10:00- Restorative Justice, Probation, and Re-entry 11:50 UNH 1000 Moderator: Mary Ellen Burton, Director of Training Programs, Homeboy Industries Paul Freese, Vice President, Public Counsel Sr. Mary Sean Hodges, Los Angeles Archdiocese Office of Restorative Justice/ Partnership for Re-Entry Program Lance Wright, Developer of Re-Entry Program, Criminals and Gang Members Anonymous
2:00- Restorative Justice, Sexual Violence, and Human Trafficking *S 3:50 UNH 1000 Moderator: Linda Buck, C.S.J., C.S.J. Center for Reconciliation and Justice, LMU Janine Geske, Marquette University Law School and Director, Center for Restorative Justice Kathleen Kim, Professor, Loyola Law School Reception: East Atrium, University Hall
Thursday, October 31 Restoring Justice Fair
12:15- Meet and Sign up with Restoring Justice Organizations 1:35 Poetry Slam St. Robert’s Lawn Coordinator: Pam Rector/ Maria Alderete, Center for Service and Action After attending panels and presentations about Restorative Justice, are you motivated to take action? Come to St. Robert’s Lawn to meet agencies and organizations and see how you can support Restorative Justice as a volunteer or advocate.
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Friday, November 1 Restorative Justice Training
10:00- An Open Invitation to Participate in Restorative Justice II: Mediation 12:00 and Circling Mini-training for Students, Staff, and Faculty St. Robert’s Auditorium Joe Provisor, The Ojai Foundation and the Los Angeles Unified School District Mini-training for students, staff, and faculty that will include mediation, role play, and circles.
2:00- Restorative Justice II: Mediation and Circling Mini-training for 4:00 Students, Staff, and Faculty (By Invitation Only) St. Robert’s Auditorium Joe Provisor, The Ojai Foundation and the Los Angeles Unified School District Mini-training for students, staff, and faculty that will include mediation, role play, and circles.
Saturday, November 2 Artists’ Speak: Restoring Justice: Confronting Brokenness, Repairing Relationships
2:30- Artists’ Speak: Student Performances and Exhibits Related to 4:30 Confronting Brokenness and Repairing Relationships Murphy Recital Hall LMU students involved in creative writing, dance, theatre arts, music, film, visual arts, and other endeavors share their response to the topic of “Confronting Brokenness and Repairing Relations” at home and in the local and global communities. Judith Royer, C.S.J., and Judith Scalin will be hosting this event which showcases the gifts, creativity and passion of student artists at LMU. Followed by a Reception Admission Free
Monday, November 4 - Saturday, November 9th Community Engagement/ Experience of Restoring Justice
Off-campus site visits and engagement with non-profit organizations focused on Restorative Justice and jail and/or prison visits will be orga- nized. Visit the Bellermine Forum website the week of October 14, 2013 for more information and to register for these activities.
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* Can’t make it to the event? For events marked with an “S”, you can watch the stream live on the forum website: http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/thebellarmineforum.
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Additional Events:
September 16 through December 3 Prison Art and Experience Curated by Franky Carrillo, Jr. William H. Hannon Library
Art, artifacts, photographs, and ephemera from 20 years in prison, and life on the outside. On display on level 3 of the William H. Hannon Library, Septem- ber 16 through December 3.
October 15 – November 15, 2013 Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex from the archives of Center for the Study of Political Graphics Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex features powerful posters from artists, activists, and organizations around the country and the world crying out against the devastating impact of mass incarceration and rapidly growing prison industrial complex (PIC). The United States has the largest prison population in the world-over 2.3 million people behind bars. The U.S. has only 5% of the world’s population yet we have 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. The posters in Prison Nation cover many of the critical issues surrounding the system of mass incarceration including: the death penalty, the Three Strikes law, racism, access to education and health care, the growing rate of incarceration, slave labor, divestment, priva- tization, torture, and re-entry into the community. They show the power of art to educate and inspire. This unique exhibition is relevant both to the community most effected by growing incarceration and to artists, activists, students, teachers, social service agencies and community leaders.
Monday, November 4 Art & Protest: Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex A presentation on the History of Prison Expansion in California and Panel Discussion 3:00 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery Panelists will include members of local organizations working on issues surrounding mass in- carceration and individuals impacted by California’s “cruel and unusual” policies. There will be a discussion on alternatives to putting people in cages that are more effective, less expensive, and will make families together and keep our communities safer. There will also be a discussion on how you can get involved. Art & Protest is being held in conjunction with CSPG’s Prison Nation exhibition at LMU. Co-sponsored by CURB, Critical Resistance, and the No More Jails L.A. Coalition.
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November 7 The Human Library 11:00-4:00 Jazzman’s Patio, William H. Hannon Library http://lmu.libcal.com/event.php?id=367627
The Human Library is an event designed to promote dialogue, reduce prejudices, and encourage understanding and compassion, simply through the art of one-on-one conversation. It works just like a regular library, except that the “Books” to be checked out are human beings with unique individual experiences to share (including many facets of restorative justice) with their “Readers.” Participation is free and open to all; sign-ups start on-site at 10:30 am the day of the event.
January 25 – March 16, 2014 Voices of Incarceration Laband Art Gallery Closed March 1-9 for Spring Break)
This spring the Laband Art Gallery continues LMU’s focus on the theme of restorative justice with the exhibition Voices of Incarceration. Art has frequently expressed the toughest and harshest sides of human experience. This exhibition brings together works by artists/prisoners who con- vey their unique perspectives from inside the prison walls and those of artists who confront the American criminal justice system from outside its walls. Both groups bring to light the emotional costs and injustices of the Prison Industrial Complex. Voices of Incarceration also explores the re- habilitive arts programs in California prisons and the expression of the artists/prisoners’ strength and individuality through creative outlets.
For more information, please visit http://cfa.lmu.edu/laband.
Jack L. Morris, Aztec Eagle, 2010 Jack L. Morris, Untitled, 2012 Ink on paper. Ink and pastel with peanut butter oil on paper.
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June 8, 2013 Healing in the Wake of Sexual Violence
This special event recognized the voices of those who have been impacted by violence and shared solutions for healing the devastating effects of violence. This event showed how the transforma- tive influence of restorative justice can empower survivors and facilitate the healing process for survivors, professionals in the field, and anyone whose life has been affected by violence. Recog- nized speakers in restorative justice as well as survivors of violence shared information, research, and personal stories.
Speakers Included: Msgr. Charles Chaffman, Judicial Vicar of the Los Angeles Archdiocese Justice Janine Geske, Marquette Law School Mimi Lind, Director of Mental Health and Domestic Violence Intervention Program, The Venice Family Clinic “Lupe”, Survivor of Human Trafficking Dr. Jaime Romo, Author, Healing the Sexually Abused Heart: A Workbook for Survivors, Thrivers, and Supporters, Parents Preventing Abuse, and Teachers Preventing Abuse
Thanks to all who participated.
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Bellarmine Forum Speakers and Panelists:
Lauren Abramson, Founding Director, Community Conferencing Center and Assistant Professor, Child Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Lauren Abramson is a psychologist who has worked with children and families in communities for the past 25 years. In 1995, Lauren brought Community Conferencing to Baltimore. She advances conferencing as a means of building social capital and collective efficacy on many levels, including empowering individuals and communities to resolve their own conflicts, keeping young people out of the criminal justice system, and mobilizing the existing untapped human assets in communities. Lauren publishes articles on both the theoretical and empirical socio-political aspects of conferencing. The work of the Community Conferencing Center is ground breaking for its multi-sector use of conferencing in highly distressed urban American communities.
Michelle Alexander, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University School of Law Professor Alexander joined the OSU faculty in 2005. She holds a joint appointment with the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Prior to joining the OSU faculty, she was a member of the Stanford Law School faculty, where she served as Director of the Civil Rights Clinic. Professor Alexander has significant experience in the field of civil rights advocacy and litigation. She has litigated civil rights cases in private practice as well as engaged in innovative litigation and advocacy efforts in the non-profit sector. For several years, Professor Alexander served as the Director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. While an associate at Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak and Baller, she specialized in plaintiff-side class action suits alleging race and gender discrimination.
Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff Baca was elected Los Angeles County’s 30th Sheriff against his mentor Sherman Block, who had died in office days prior to the election but remained on the ballot. He was sworn in on December 7, 1998. He was re-elected to a fourth term in 2010. Baca began his career in street patrol, custody, and recruitment and was a staff instructor at the Sheriff’s Academy. In 1981, Baca became captain of the Norwalk, California sheriff station. On January 23, 1992, Sheriff Sherman Block promoted Baca to the rank of Chief Deputy. Sheriff Baca also developed the Office of Independent Review, comprised of six civil rights attorneys who provide independent oversight on all internal affairs and internal criminal investigations concerning alleged misconduct by Department personnel.
Sujatha Baliga, Director of Restorative Justice Project, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Sujatha Baliga’s work is characterized by an equal dedication to victims and persons accused of crime. A former victim’s advocate and public defender, Sujatha was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2008, which she used to spearhead a successful restorative juvenile diversion program in Alameda County, CA. Today, as director of the restorative justice project at NCCD, Sujatha assists communities in implementing restorative justice alternatives to juvenile detention and zero-tolerance school discipline policies. She also provides technical assistance to the US Attorney General’s Task Force on Childhood Exposure to Violence. Sujatha earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and her JD from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held federal clerkships with the Honorable William K. Sessions, III, and with the Honorable Martha Vázquez. A national voice in restorative justice, she was honored as Northeastern University Law School’s Daynard Fellow, featured in the New York Times Magazine, and has been a guest on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation.”
Honorable Mark Bennett, U.S. District Judge, Northern Iowa District Honorable Mark W. Bennett is a United States federal judge, serving on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Bennett received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1972 and a J.D. from Drake University Law School in 1975. He was in private practice in Des Moines, Iowa from 1975 to 1991, also serving as general counsel with the Iowa Civil Liberties Union from 1975 to 1989. From 1991 to 1994, Bennett was a United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. On June 21, 1994, Bennett was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa vacated by Donald E. O’Brien. Bennett was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 9, 1994, and received his commission on August 26, 1994. He served as chief judge from 1999 to 2006.
Honorable Irma J. Brown, Inglewood Juvenile Court Judge Judge Brown graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1970 and Loyola University School of Law in 1973. She worked at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles from 1975-77 and as a partner at Hudson, Sandoz & Brown from 1978 - 1982. She was appointed by Governor George Deukmejian to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1982 and then became a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge in 2000 when both the Los Angeles Municipal and Superior Courts merged.
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Linda Buck, C.S.J., Associate Director, C.S.J., Center for Reconciliation and Justice Linda Buck, C.S.J. is a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange and an Associate Director at the C.S.J. Center for Reconciliation and Justice at LMU. She is also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a practice in Orange County and works from a Jungian-oriented framework, primarily in the area of complex trauma. Sr. Linda is a Clinical Supervisor, Sandplay Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Spiritual Director. She is also adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University Gradu- ate School of Psychology. She presents on various topics focusing on the integration of psychology and spirituality.
Mary Ellen Burton, Director of Training Programs, Homeboy Industries Mary Ellen Burton has been practicing as a spiritual director since 1995. She received an M.A. in Pastoral Theology from LMU in 2004. She has been working at Homeboy Industries since January 2007. As Director of Training Programs at Homeboy, she is responsible for Mental Health, Case Management, Legal Services, Restorative Justice and Retreats. Mary Ellen has trained with Insight Prison Project to become a facilitator of Victim Offender Education Groups (VOEG) at Homeboy. She has been facilitating groups for about a year and a half. Being part of the Homeboy community and facilitating VOEG has been a life-changing and healing process for her as she witnesses the healing that happens for the offenders and survivors who participate in VOEG. For her these are examples of radical gospel values in practice. The deep work required in healing brings hope to those who participate and meaning to a world that sometimes feels meaningless.
Elizabeth Calvin, Senior Advocate, Children’s Rights Division Elizabeth Calvin is an attorney with experience in juvenile justice, foster care, and education rights. At Human Rights Watch she focuses on the rights of children in California, with a specific emphasis on children and youth in foster care and the criminal justice systems. Her work includes research and writing on human rights violations against children, policy and legal advocacy, and building partnerships with community groups. She is an author of three Human Rights Watch reports on juveniles serving life without parole, and works closely with a national campaign to end the use of ex- treme prison sentences for youth. In 2012, her leadership of a coalition-based effort resulted in the reform of California’s use of life without parole sentences for youth. She has also written on foster care and homelessness, and works closely with youth, faith groups, family members of youth sentenced to life in prison, crime victims, incarcerated individuals, advocates, and activists for youth rights.
Maisie Chin, Co-Founder and Director, CADRE Maisie Chin is Co-Founder and current Director of CADRE – Community Asset Development Re-defining Education, an independent, grassroots parent membership organization in South Los Angeles comprised of low-income African American and Latino parents/caregivers. After working in a K-16 institutional and foundation collaboration around education reform for over six years, Ms. Chin and a South LA parent launched CADRE in 2001. CADRE’s mission is to solidify and advance parent leadership to ensure that all children are rightfully educated regardless of where they live. Through human rights-based community organizing and policy advocacy, CADRE parent leaders are fighting to end the pushout of low-income families of color from public schools and the school-to-prison pipeline. Under Ms. Chin’s leadership CADRE has successfully influenced policy at the local school district level and is moving towards addressing state and national policies using the human rights framework.
Honorable Donald Owen Costello, Chief Judge, Coquille Indian Tribe Donald Owen Costello has been an active member of the Oregon State Bar since 1977. Starting in 1984, he served as judge in state- and municipal courts, and for multiple Indian tribes. He founded the court system of Oregon’s Co- quille Indian Tribe in 1997 and has served as its Chief Judge ever since. In the 1980’s he was the first judicial officer of Deschutes County, Oregon’s pioneering restorative juvenile justice court. He received his A.B. in Anthropology from University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Portland’s Lewis and Clark College. At age 65, he sculls almost daily and is a competitive rower.
Andrew Dilts, Assistant Professor of Political Science, LMU Andrew Dilts is a political theorist whose work focuses broadly on the history of political thought and the discursive relationships between political membership, subjectivity, sovereignty, and punishment. He is especially interested in the connections between penal policy, race, and “identity” in the United States. Prof. Dilts studied economics at Indiana University before earning his doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism (Fordham University Press, forthcoming) which gives a theoretical account of felon disenfranchisement as it has been practiced in the United States, drawing widely on early modern political theory, post-structuralist French thought, queer theory, disability theory, and critical race theory. He is currently at work on a book-length study of Michel Foucault’s thought in relation to neoliberal economic theories of subjectivity, drawing on Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, his late work on the care of the self, and the theory of human capital developed by “Chicago-School” economists. He has published articles have been published in Political Theory, Foucault Studies, New Political Science, PhiloSOPHIA, and The Carceral Notebooks.
Ellen Eggers, Attorney, Office of the State Public Defender, Sacramento Ellen Eggers is capital appeals attorney who has been representing death row inmates before the California Supreme Court since 1990. Before that she served as in-house counsel to farmworker leader Cesar Chavez, at the union head- quarters in Keene, California. The State Bar of California recently recognized Ms. Eggers for her successful pro bono representation of Franky Carrillo, an innocent man who spent 20 years in prison until his exoneration in 2011. Ms. Egg- ers has long been active in the movement to end the death penalty, is a regular public speaker on the issue and serves on the board of Death Penalty Focus. Since 2009, she has been leading 3-day conflict resolution workshops inside California’s prisons for the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and recently was invited by AVP to join its Statewide Steering Committee.
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Paul Freese, Vice President, Public Counsel Paul L. Freese, Jr., is the Vice President of Public Counsel, the public interest law office of the Los Angeles County and Beverly Hills Bar Associations and the largest provider of pro bono legal services in the United States. A member of the California State Bar since 1988 he worked as a litigation associate until 1994 when he joined Public Counsel as Directing Attorney of the Homelessness Prevention Law Project. Appointed in 2010 to be the organization’s first Vice President, he supervises more than 65 attorneys and their staff. His experience includes working as a Group Worker for DuPage County Youth Home and working with developmentally disabled adults at Little Friends, in Naperville, Illinois. He was a Maryk- noll Lay Missioner engaged in human rights work and was the first Maryknoll lay missioner to receive an appointment to a Regional Position. He received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 1988.
Ruett Stephen Foster, Pastor, Community Bible Church, Culver City, CA Pastor Ruett Stephen Foster has over 30 years of experience as a teacher; counselor; and advocate for the children, youth, and families of Los Angeles. For the past 13 years, Pastor Foster has served as an ardent public activist for violence preven- tion. He became an assiduous advocate after the tragic and senseless loss of his innocent seven-year-old son, Evan, to gun violence in 1997. Pastor Foster and his wife, Rhonda, have partnered with several causes in the hopes of eradicating youth violence. Mr. Foster became Senior Pastor of Community Bible Church (CBC) of Culver City in June of 2007. Pastor Foster continues to serve as an advisory board member for the Office of Restorative Justice of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which is comprised of a group of individuals committed to empowering people to understand what it means to restore justice systemically.
Janine Geske, Marquette University School of Law Justice Janine P. Geske (ret.) currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Law at the Marquette University Law School (U.S.). She is the founder and director of its Restorative Justice Initiative and served as Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven at the Criminology Institute in 2011. She previously served as a Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge for twelve years and a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice for five years. She also has served as the Interim Milwaukee County Executive, and as Interim Dean of the Marquette Law School. In her current role, she teaches restorative justice, supervises the Marquette Restorative Justice Clinic, and works extensively with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, victims groups, prosecutors, police, social service agencies, neighborhood associations, and other restorative justice pro- grams to design restorative processes that meet their respective needs to work toward restoring the harm.
Honorable Joan Gottschall, U.S. District Judge, Northern Illinois District Born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Gottschall received a B.A. from Smith College in 1969 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1973. She was then in private practice in Chicago, Illinois, until 1976, and again from 1978 to 1982, serving as a staff attorney of the Federal Defender Program in Chicago from 1976 to 1978. She was a staff attorney in the legal office of the University of Chicago from 1982 to 1984. She was a United States Magistrate for the Northern District of Illinois from 1984 to 1996. On March 29, 1996, Gottschall was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by James Byron Moran. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 25, 1996, and received her commission on August 1, 1996.
Honorable Donna Quigley Groman, Judge for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County After more than a decade of private practice specializing in juvenile matters, Judge Groman was appointed as a Superior Court referee in September, 1997 and elevated to Commissioner in April, 1999. During that time, Groman presided over juvenile dependency, juvenile delinquency, misdemeanor jury trials, small claims, and traffic matters. In January, 2003, Groman took the assignment of the arraignment master calendar, a high volume assignment which has her hearing up to 120 cases each day. Judge Groman is a member of the California Judges’ Association, California Court Commissioner’s Association, National Association of Women Judges, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Women Lawyer’s Association of Los Angeles, and The Lesbian and Gay Lawyers of Los Angeles. Judge Groman is an educator and lecturer for CJER (Center for Judicial Education and Research), and participates in trainings for the Juvenile Court Bar, foster family agencies and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer, Professor and Chair, Business, LMU Arthur Gross-Schaefer has been a member of the faculty at LMU since 1978. He previously taught at Western States School of Law, Boston University and the University of Southern California. Gross-Schaefer is a past president of the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies, representative to National Conference of the Pacific Southwest Region of Reform Rabbis, and a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He is also a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, Beta Gamma Sigma, the California State Bar Association, the California Society of Public Accountants and has earned more than a dozen teaching awards. His areas of expertise include business law; ethics: business, legal, medical, religious, and personal; and clergy legal issues.
Sister Mary Sean Hodges, O.P., Director, Partnership for Re-Entry Program in the Office of Restor- ative Justice Sister Mary Sean is almost a native Los Angelean, born in NY but moving to CA at 1 ½ years old, and living here most of her years. She entered religious life after high school and has been a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose for 55 years. She enjoyed teaching school for 39 years in primary, junior high and high school, then came into the wonderful ministry of re-entry of parolees back into the community. Presently, she is the director of the Partnership For Re-Entry Program (PREP) in the Office of Restorative Justice. The organization has several modular self-help, self-development correspon- dence courses: Turning Point I and II; Anger Management, Insight, Domestic Violence and Parenting. Presently, over 5000 inmates are participating in these courses. She is the Founder of Starfish Stories, Inc. with five homes, The Francisco Homes, and a partner with Rescue-A-Life to open The William D. Pugh Home. These homes serve over 70 men who have been released after serving a life sentence.
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Morris Jenkins, Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Southeast Missouri State University Dr. Morris Jenkins received his B.A. from Claflin College, his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law, and his Ph.D. from Northeastern University. Having taught and trained students at every level, including elementary, law and graduate school, Dr. Jenkins has also trained thousands of young people and adults in law-related education (LRE), conflict resolu- tion, and mediation. In addition, he has provided multicultural/diversity training to many police departments, probation departments, and corrections staff across the nation. Dr. Jenkins has taught a number of graduate courses in law and education, mediation and classroom management for teachers, administrators, and corrections personnel. His publish- ing and research interests include civic education as a means to violence prevention in communities; restorative justice; gangs; and juvenile justice policy. He has testified at a number of state legislative hearings on the topic of restorative justice. He is still active in the community and is currently involved with programs that deal with homelessness, juvenile crime, and race relations.
Michael Kennedy, S.J., Executive Director, Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative From 1994 to 2007, Fr. Mike was pastor at Dolores Mission in Los Angeles, where he developed a passion for working with the poor and marginalized and met countless families whose lives were being torn apart by gang violence and crime. Returning from the General Congregation of the Society of Jesus in 2007, Fr. Mike decided to found the Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative and work with people whose lives have been effected by violence and crime. As the Executive Director of this Jesuit Initiative, Fr. Mike gives talks throughout California and the United States on his method of Ignatian medita- tion. He has been recognized recently for his work by the California Chief of Probation Officers and the City of Los Angeles for the work he is doing to transform the lives of incarcerated youth, their families, and communities.
Azim Khamisa, Founder, Tariq Khamisa Foundation Hailed by dignitaries such as the Dalai Llama and Thich Nhat Hanh, Azim Khamisa delivers his inspirational message to a world in desperate need of forgiveness, peace, and hope. Following the murder of his only son Tariq in 1995 through a senseless, gang-related incident, Azim chose the path of forgiveness and compassion rather than revenge, and this amaz- ing choice led to the establishment of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF) and his subsequent forgiveness work which has reached millions through international speaking, (in 1996 – a crowd of 300,000), public and corporate workshops, video and audio recordings and four published books, including the award-winning From Murder to Forgiveness and the Random House book The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit, coauthored with Jillian Quinn.
Kathleen Kim, Professor, Loyola Law School Kathleen Kim teaches Torts, Immigration Law and Human Trafficking. Before joining Loyola Law School, Kathleen pio- neered civil litigation on behalf of human trafficking survivors at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. She launched and directed the Human Trafficking Project as a Skadden Fellow, the first of its kind to focus on the civil rights of trafficked individuals to receive monetary compensation for the abuse of forced labor. In 2005, Kathleen became the inaugural Immigrants’ Rights Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School. In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Kathleen continues to provide technical assistance in human trafficking civil cases. She currently co-directs the Anti-Traf- ficking Litigation Assistance and Support Team and was a gubernatorial appointee to the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery. Kathleen graduated from Stanford Law School where she was an editor of Stanford Law Review and a Judge Takasugi Public Interest Fellow.
Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County District Attorney District Attorney Jackie Lacey has spent most of her professional life as a prosecutor, manager and executive in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. On Dec. 3, 2012, she was sworn in as District Attorney. Ms. Lacey oversees roughly 1,000 lawyers, nearly 300 investigators and about 800 support staff employees. She is the first woman and first African American to serve as Los Angeles County District Attorney since the office was created in 1850. A graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, Ms. Lacey joined the largest local prosecutorial office in the nation in 1986 as a deputy district attorney. While serving as a deputy district attorney, she prosecuted hundreds of serious criminal cases. Ms. Lacey won national attention for her successful prosecution of the county’s first race-based hate crime murder. Ms. Lacey was recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice in May 2000 for prosecuting this case. Also, Ms. Lacey twice was selected as Deputy District Attorney of the Month by her peers.
Kimberly Lesure, Assistant Principal, Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets – Restorative Justice Coordinator A native of Los Angeles, CA, and also a proud product of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Mrs. Lesure has been an educator for almost 20 years with a Master’s Degree in Education and is credentialed in Educational Administra- tion and Leadership. As an administrator at Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets in LAUSD, she has been instrumen- tal in implementing Restorative Justice practices through their Intervention Office and has facilitated the training of teachers to use RJ and Council practice in their classrooms. She has also introduced the practice of Council and RJ with various community youth groups. Mrs. Lesure and her husband founded NowDigThis.org, an organization that strives to emphasize the importance of the arts in connection with its positive influence on academic achievement. An advocate of cross-curriculum and themed instruction, she endeavors to bring back the excitement and thirst for learning through the merging of the Visual and Performing Arts, History, and English Language Arts.
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Schoene Mahmood, Restorative Justice Specialist, CURes Restorative Justice Project Schoene Mahmood is a Los Angeles based Community Conferencing facilitator. Community Conferencing helps individuals collectively implement their own strategies for resolving conflict and crime. She is currently working as a restorative justice specialist for the Center for Urban Resilience Restorative Justice Project at Loyola Marymount University. She also serves on the Transformative Justice Council and has conducted presentations in partnership with the Western Justice Center. For over six years, Schoene facilitated conflict resolution and court diversion cases at the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She handled cases referred by the Maryland State’s Attorney’s Office, Department of Juvenile Services, Baltimore City Police Department, and Baltimore City Schools.
Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project Marc Mauer has directed programs on criminal justice policy reform for 30 years, and is the author of some of the most widely-cited reports and publications in the field. His 1995 report on racial disparity and the criminal justice system led The New York Times to editorialize that the report “should set off alarm bells from the White House to city halls – and help reverse the notion that we can incarcerate our way out of fundamental social problems.” Race to Incarcerate, Mauer’s ground- breaking book on sentencing policies, was a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1999. Mauer began his work in criminal justice with the American Friends Service Committee in 1975, and served as the organization’s National Justice Communications Coordinator. In 2005, he became Executive Director of The Sentencing Project. Mauer has received numerous awards, including the Margaret Mead Award from the International Community Corrections Association (2009), and the Inside/ Out Summit Award from Centerforce (2011).
Alan McGuckian, S.J., Northern Ireland Playwright Fr. Alan, a native of Cloughmills, is a member of the Jesuit community in Belfast. He has a background in both secondary edu- cation and communications. After ordination in 1984 he spent some years teaching in Clongowes Wood College, a boarding school outside Dublin. From 1991 to 2005 he was based at the Jesuit Communication Centre in Dublin. Fr. Alan acted as overall facilitator of the diocesan listening process in 2011 and authored the report that came out of it. Bishop Treanor ap- pointed him as director of the Living Church office with overall responsibility for directing the process for the two years up to the Congress of 2013 and its immediate developments.
David Muhammad, CEO, Solutions Inc. David Muhammad is a leader in the fields of criminal justice, violence prevention, and youth development. David is the CEO of Solutions Inc., a consulting firm providing technical assistance to several California philanthropic foundations on juvenile and criminal justice issues. The former Chief Probation Officer of the Alameda County Probation Department, David was responsible for overseeing 20,000 people on probation, a staff of 600, and a $90 million budget. David ushered in enormous reform in Alameda County to move probation away from a deficit-based correctional model into a strengths-based Positive Youth Development model. David formally served as the Deputy Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Probation, and was responsible for overseeing 35,000 people on probation and a staff of 800. David previously served as the Chief of Committed Services for the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services. At DYRS, David’s responsibility included 300 staff, a $42 million annual budget, a juvenile institution, and 900 youth committed to his department’s care.
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Nadelmann received his B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Har¬vard as well as a Master’s degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and taught at Princ- eton University for seven years. He has authored two books – Cops Across Borders and (with Peter Andreas) Policing The Globe – and his writings have appeared in most major media outlets in the U.S. Nadelmann and his colleagues have played pivotal roles in most of the major drug policy reform ballot initiative campaigns in the United States on issues ranging from medi- cal marijuana and marijuana legalization to prison reform, drug treatment and reform of asset forfeiture laws. Nadelmann also plays a key role as drug policy advisor to George Soros and other prominent philanthropists as well as elected officials.
Leslie Neale, Documentarian Leslie has spent many years in the entertainment industry both behind and in front of the camera. She has directed, written and produced several documentaries, but her primary focus is on social justice, specifically within criminal justice reform. Her award-winning filmRoad to Return, narrated by Tim Robbins, which aired on PBS, was presented to the United States Congress, prompting a bill authorizing 6 million dollars for prison aftercare. Juvies, narrated by Mark Wahlberg and shown on HBO, toured the world as one of the top ten “Human Rights Watch” films of 2005.Juvies also screened at the United Nations, encouraging the first ever conference on juvenile justice. Her latest film,Unlikely Friends, narrated by Mike Farrell, continues her passion to invite audiences to think creatively when addressing the problems of the criminal justice system that ultimately impact us all. Unlikely Friends is set to air on the Discovery Channel later this year.
Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Nelson received an A.B. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950, a J.D. from University of California, Los Ange- les, School of Law in 1953, and an LL.M. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1956. She was in private practice in Los Angeles, California from 1954 to 1957. She was a member of the faculty of University of Southern California Law School from 1957 to 1980, where she was a Professor from 1967 to 1980 and Dean from 1969 to 1980. Nelson is a fed- eral judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Nelson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on September 28, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 19, 1979, and received her commission on December 20, 1979. She assumed senior status on January 1, 1995.
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Don John Omale, Professor, Salem University, Nigeria Dr. Don John O. Omale (Ph.D.) is a British Chevening Scholar of Criminology, Restorative Justice and Victimology. He has lectured both in Nigeria and the UK and has taught very highly placed Senior Officials of the Nigerian Prisons Ser- vice. He is a Beneficiary of the Rotary Foundation International Group Study Exchange Programme to California; and an Economic and Social Council Delegate to the Model United Nations Congress in New York, USA (2003). He holds: BSc Psychology (University of Nigeria, Nsukka), M.S. Criminology (University of Leicester, UK) and Ph.D. Restorative Justice and Victimology at the Centre for Community and Criminal Justice. He is also Facilitator to Dispute Resolution Associates, Asokoro-Abuja on the National Strategic Workshops on Fast Track Trials, and Non-Custodial options; and International Adviser to Restorative Justice Initiative Midland, UK. He is a member of the British society of criminology, London; member of the International Institute of Restorative Practices, Pennsylvania, USA; member of the Restorative Justice International, and member of the World Society of Victimology.
William O’Neill, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University William O’Neill, S.J. is a member of the Society of Jesus; an associate professor of social ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University; and a visiting professor of ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology, Hekima in Nairobi, Kenya. He received his doctorate from Yale in 1988. His writings address questions of human rights, social reconciliation, restorative justice, and refugee and immigration policy. He served as co-chair of the restorative interest group of the Catholic Theological Society. He has worked with refugees in Tanzania and Malawi and done research on human rights in South Africa and Rwanda. He currently serves as the Catholic chaplain at the Federal Women’s Prison in Dublin, California where many migrant women are incarcerated.
Tung Nguyen, Restorative Justice Practitioner Tung Nguyen is 36 years old, born and raised in Vietnam. He arrived in the US around 1991 at 14 years of age. In 1993, at 16, he was sentenced to 25 years to life for his involvement in a crime of murder and robbery. In 2011, after having served 18 years, he was found suitable for parole with a future release date of 2023. In April 2011, Governor Brown, reviewed the Board of Parole’s decision and modified the Board’s decision to allow my immediate release from prison. I am currently living with my family and work as a dry cleaner, a vocation learned in prison. When possible, he partici- pates in community outreach, including restorative justice, juvenile advocate, and victim reconciliation. He connected with Luz Ruiz, a mother, who lost a son through violent. They have become friends and support one another.
Philip Orr, Northern Ireland Historian Philip Orr, teacher and historian, read English at the University of East Anglia and currently teaches Theatre Studies at Down High School. His contributions to Irish military and social history include the best-selling The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division Tell Their Story (Belfast 1987). He lives in Killyleagh, County Down and is the chairman of The New Ireland Group, an autonomous Belfast-based political think-tank. Has written a number of books and articles on the topic of the Great War and regularly contributed to discussions or lectured on the matter. He is currently engaged in work on the politics of the year 1912, including a book, a website, and a community drama. In 2012, he completed a short book on the history of an Irish army camp. He is contributing a short study to a local history publication on the role of the home front in Ireland’s experience of the Great War, and by 2014, aims to attempt a community drama project which explores the war.
Mark Osler, Professor, University of St. Thomas Law School Mark Osler is a Professor of Law at the University of St., Thomas Law School in Minnesota. A graduate of the College of William and Mary and Yale Law School, Prof. Osler is a former federal prosecutor whose work has consistently con- fronted the problem of inflexibility in sentencing and corrections. As lead counsel he won the case ofSpears v. United States (2009) in the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Court held that sentencing judges can categorically reject the 100:1 ratio between crack and powder cocaine in the federal sentencing guidelines. He serves as the head of the Association of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, and often lectures on issues relating to sentencing, ethics, and faith and the law. His book, Jesus on Death Row (Abingdon, 2009) challenges the death penalty based on the experience of Christ as a criminal defendant. He has also authored over twenty academic articles and has been frequently interviewed as a sentencing or Supreme Court expert.
John M. Parrish, Associate Professor, Director of the University Honors Program John Michael Parrish teaches and studies political theory, focusing especially on the history of political thought and on the ethics of political leadership. A graduate of William Jewell College, he has studied at Oxford and Cambridge and earned his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. Prior to coming to LMU, he was assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University. He has published a book, Paradoxes of Political Ethics: From Dirty Hands to the Invisible Hand (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and has a second book, The Decline of Mercy in Public Life, co-authored with Alex Tuckness, in production at Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2014). He has published articles in such journals as The Historical Journal, History of Political Thought, International Theory, and the Oxford Review of Education, as well as several book chapters. He has co-edited two volumes of essays: Manipulating Democracy: Democratic Theory, Political Psychology, and Mass Media (Routledge, 2011) and Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popu- lar Culture (Lexington, 2010). Joseph H. Paul Jr., Program Manager, Jericho Training Center for the Re-Entry Services Program Joseph uses his 22 years of experience working with individuals who are recently released from incarceration to aid in successful reintegration. He is the recipient of a Certificate of Congressional Recognition for his faith-based initiative in the prevention of Urban Gun Violence at the City of Refuge Church, recipient of a Commendation from Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor Second District for his efforts in civic education and community service, recipient of the 2012 Presidents Award for Community Leadership from the Association of Black Psychologists and was recognized for his work with re-entry services to the residents of Los Angeles by the former Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa. For over 21 years, Paul has been diligently involved in volunteer efforts in support of re-entry services within South Los Angeles including The Ex-Offender Action Network re-entry program and The Church of the Harvest Ministries - Los Angeles. 22 Bellarmine Forum 2013
Stephen Pope, Professor of Theology, Boston College Stephen J. Pope received his Ph.D. in theological ethics from the University of Chicago in 1988. He teaches courses on social ethics and theological ethics. He has written The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (Georgetown, 1994) and Human Evolution and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 2007), and he has edited Essays on the Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas (Georgetown, 2001). He and his wife have three children and reside in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Mark Potter, Assistant to the Jesuit Provincial, California Jesuit Province Mark Potter is the Provincial Assistant for Social Ministries in the California Province of the Society of Jesus – his job is to be a resource and catalyst for social justice efforts among the Jesuit high schools, universities, parishes, spirituality and retreat centers, and direct social service ministries in the states of California and Arizona. In this role, Mark has been instrumental to the creation of the Kino Border Initiative at the US/Mexico border in Ambos Nogales, and the Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative that seeks to change both the culture and the laws that sentence juvenile offenders to death in prison. Mark also represents the California province in Jesuit shareholder advocacy efforts to promote commitments to fundamental human rights among some of the world’s most ethically-challenged corporations, such as Monsanto, Chevron, and Occidental Petroleum.
Jason Powell, Co-Founder and President of Hope Renewed International In 2010, Jason Powell and Ashley Williams came together with the determination to make a sustainable difference in the lives of the people of Guatemala. Ashley’s relationships on the ground in Guatemala combined with Jason’s interna- tional business experience established an ideal partnership. The question before them, “How do we exemplify Christ’s love, while creating opportunities for people in at-risk communities without creating dependency on an organization?” Hope Renewed International (HRI) is dedicated to renewing HOPE by living out and proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ; by improving the quality of life; and by providing relief and opportunities to those who may not otherwise have them. HRI’s approach is to partner with community leaders with a focus on education and skills development, empowering the people to ultimately help themselves, creating dependability not dependency. Jason has spent the last 15 years in the global Pharmaceutical industry in various positions in the U.S. and Latin America. He has spent a significant amount of time doing mission work across Latin America and today is co-founder and President of Hope Renewed International.
Joe Provisor, The Ojai Foundation and the Los Angeles Unified School District Joe Provisor, M.A, LMFT, holds two Master’s Degrees in English and Clinical Psychology, is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and has been a public school teacher for over twenty years. He has practiced Council with public school students since 1986, uses the process in his therapeutic practice, and has been a Council Trainer for The Ojai Foundation since 1994, providing trainings for educators, therapists, and business people nationally and internation- ally. He currently serves as Director of the Ojai Foundation’s Council in Schools (CIS) Program and is the Program Expert for Council Practitioners Center (CPC) established in 2006 in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Office of Curricu- lum, Instruction, and School Support (OCISS). Joe has designed Council-based curriculum that is in wide use in LAUSD with continuation high school students and students identified as at-risk for dropping out. Joe has trained and super- vised teachers (K to post-secondary), administrators, counselors, therapists, and business people to build community and to integrate systemic community building practices into curriculum and institutions.
Francesca Piumetti, Associate Dean of Students and Chief Judicial Officer, LMU Francesca Piumetti is in her eleventh year as Loyola Marymount University’s Associate Dean of Students and Chief Judicial Officer. In this role, Francesca directly supervises Student Media, including KXLU Tower/The Loyolan and ROAR Network. Currently, she sits on the Wellness Committee, Regulatory Compliance Committee, Student Affairs Critical Incidents Team, Student of Concern Team, Behavior Intervention Team and the Division of Student Affairs’ Management Team. Francesca received her M.A. in Counseling and her B.A. in Sociology, both from Loyola Marymount University. Between 1997-2000, Francesca was a middle school counselor in the IUSD, Inglewood Unified School District.
Kimberly Richman, Associate Professor of Sociology, Legal Studies, and Criminal Justice Studies, University of San Francisco Kimberly Richman is President of the Board of Directors and co-founder of the nonprofit Alliance for CHANGE, and As- sociate Professor of Sociology, Legal Studies, and Criminal Justice Studies at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches Criminology, Sociology of Law, Capstone Seminar in Reentry, and Deviance and Social Control. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of two books with NYU Press and numerous articles in scholarly journals such as Crime and Public Policy, Law & Society Re- view, Law & Social Inquiry, and Law and Human Behavior. She serves on the board of several professional organizations in law and the social sciences, and is President-Elect of the Western Society of Criminology. She has been sponsoring pre-release and reentry programs inside San Quentin State Prison since 2003, and is currently a visiting professor and visiting scholar at UCLA.
Javier Stauring, Co-Director, Los Angeles Archdiocese Office of Restorative Justice Javier Stauring is Co-Director of the Office of Restorative Justice for the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Since 1996, he has overseen the programs at all juvenile halls and probation camps in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties. In addition, Stauring is responsible for three other restorative justice programs: Ministry to Victims of Crime, Ministry to Families of the Incarcerated, and Ministry to Formerly Incarcerated. He has received several national and international awards in recognition of his work.
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Bryan Stevenson, New York University School of Law A 1985 graduate of Harvard, with both a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from the School of Law, Bryan Stevenson joined the clinical faculty at New York University School of Law in 1998. Stevenson has been representing capital defendants and death row prisoners in the deep South since 1985 when he was a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1989, he has been Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a private, nonprofit law organization he founded that focuses on social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Award Prize. In 2004, he received the Award for Courageous Advocacy from the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Lawyer for the People Award from the National Lawyers Guild. In 2006, NYU presented Mr. Stevenson with its Distin- guished Teaching Award. He has also received honorary degrees from several universities, including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University School of Law. He has also published several widely disseminated manuals on capital litigation and written extensively on criminal justice, capital punishment and civil rights issues.
Dr. Eric Strauss, President’s Professor of Biology, LMU and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Resilience (CURes) Dr. Eric Strauss serves Loyola Marymount University as President’s Professor of Biology, Executive Director of the Center for Urban Resilience (CURes) and Director of the graduate track in urban ecology. With collaborative research specialties in animal behavior, endangered species management, urban ecosystem dynamics and science education, Eric has extended the model for faculty scholarship by co-founding the Urban Ecology Institute in Boston while he served as a faculty member at Boston College and CURes in LA, both of which provide educational, research and restoration programs to underserved neighborhoods and their residents. In addition, Dr. Strauss is the Founding Editor of a web-based peer- reviewed journal, Cities and the Environment, which is funded in part by the USDA Forest Service. His research includes collaborative long term studies of coyotes, White tailed deer, crows, turtles and other vertebrates, with a specialty in understanding wildlife in urban areas and the appropriate management responses to wildlife problems and zoonotic disease. He has co-written multi-media textbooks in biology and urban ecology as well as hosting multiple video series on the life sciences and ecology.
Alicia Virani, California Conference for Equality and Justice Alicia Virani is a Restorative Justice Program Specialist at The California Conference for Equality and Justice. Alicia gradu- ated from UCLA in 2011 with a J.D. and a M.A. in Urban Planning. At CCEJ she developed a Restorative Justice project that serves as an alternative to punitive school discipline and the juvenile justice system. Alicia is committed to ending the cycle of violence caused by the criminal (in)justice system by being an advocate and promoting healing for all. Alicia has worked in the Los Angeles community on many projects, including starting Let’s Go! Liberation- a legal clinic for the trans- gender community-and working with INCITE! LA, an organization committed to ending violence against women of color.
Ashley Williams, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Guatemala Operations for Hope Renewed International In 2010, Jason Powell and Ashley Williams came together with the determination to make a sustainable difference in the lives of the people of Guatemala. Ashley’s relationships on the ground in Guatemala combined with Jason’s international business experience established an ideal partnership. The question before them, “How do we exemplify Christ’s love, while creating opportunities for people in at-risk communities without creating dependency on an organization?” Hope Renewed International (HRI) is dedicated to renewing HOPE by living out and proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ; by improving the quality of life; and by providing relief and opportunities to those who may not otherwise have them. At 16, during a mission trip to Romania, Ashley decided to dedicate her life to working with people in need. After graduating high school she lived in Mexico with a missionary friend for a period time before attending Moody Bible Institute in 2006. One summer, during her time at Moody, she had the opportunity to visit Guatemala. That summer visit turned into years of serving Guatemala’s most desperate people living in the city dump, ghetto, and prisons.
Lance Wright, Developer of Re-Entry Program, Criminals and Gangmembers Anonymous Lance Wright’s experience within the re-entry community dates back to the early 1980’s when he was beginning his jour- ney of being addicted to a lifestyle of criminality and drugs. His insight into the problem comes after many years of trial and much error within his own life. He has been involved in the development and facilitating of an institutional re-entry program through Criminals and Gangmembers Anonymous (CGA) from approximately 2003 to 2011 wherein the clients were given an extensive recovery based education 5 nights a week over the course of 18 months. It was a preparatory program and engaged the clients in areas of addictive thinking and behavior, interpersonal relationships, and many other areas needed for their success upon release. Currently he works as a Program Facilitator Supervisor/Drug and Alcohol Counselor at Beit T’Shuvah 40 hours a week, as a Transformational Life Coach with New Horizon Community Re-Entry, and as an intern with CRI-HELP 8 hours a week to meet class requirements towards being CAADE certified as a Drug and Alcohol Counselor. Chief Steven K. Zipperman, Chief of the Los Angeles School Police Department Command Officer Chief Zipperman is a proud native of the City of Los Angeles and graduated from LAUSD’s Taft High School in the San Fernando Valley. He was appointed as the Chief of the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) in January of 2011, after serving over 32 years with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He worked numerous officer and supervisory assignments including patrol, vice, narcotics and Special Response Units. As an LAPD Command Officer, he held various positions throughout the LAPD divisions, and forged numerous business and community relationships. As Chief of the LASPD, Chief Zipperman is responsible for the oversight of 350 sworn officers and 130 school safety officers and a civilian support staff, to police over 710 square miles covering 1100 schools attended by over one million students. Zipperman holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice, and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership.
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LMU Moderators and Student Panelists
Maria Alderete, Center for Service and Action Sarah Babb, Career Development and Employer Relations Specialist Maggie Bove-LaMonica, LMU Family of Schools Franky Carrillo, LMU Student Darin Earley, LMU Family of Schools Evan Gerstmann, Professor of Political Science and Law Cheryl Grills, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology Laurie Levinson, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Peter Lillard, LMU Student Brittany Lunney, LMU Student Cristina Medina, LMU Student Paula Mitchell, Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School Pam Rector, Center for Service and Action Jonathan Rothchild, Associate Professor of Theological Studies Melissa Ryan, LMU Student Rabbi Ilana Schachter, Hillel Rabbi, Coordinator, Jewish Student Life Miriam Vega, LMU Student
2013 Bellarmine Forum Committee Members:
Scott Wood, Co-Director Jonathan Rothchild, Co-Director Sarah Babb Maggie Bove-LaMonica Sheryle Bush Franky Carrillo Darin Earley Evan Gerstmann Cheryl Grills Rachel Lang Schoene Mahmood Paula Mitchell Kyra Pearson Pam Rector Eric Strauss Seth Weiner
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A Special Thanks To:
Marie Alderete, Center for Service and Action Walter Ayala, Events Operations Lane Bove, Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Susan Burton, Executive Director, A New Way of Life Reentry Project Sheryle Bush, Administrative Assistant, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts A Special Thanks to our Sponsors Franky Carrillo, LMU Student Donna Gray, Director of Development, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Jamie Hazlitt, Outreach Librarian Ignatians Service Organization Rachel Lang, MA Student and Forum Program Designer Tom King, Center for Service in Action Michael J. O’Sullivan, Interim Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Carolyn Peter, Director and Curator of the Laband Art Gallery Pam Rector, Center for Service and Action Judith Royer, C.S.J., Professor, Theater Department Judy Scalin, Associate Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts Roxanne Stover, Administrative Assistant, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Ben Sullivan, Senior Web Manager John August Swanson, Artist Brittnee Wadlington, Events Specialist Ashley Wilson, Scheduling Specialist Jeffrey Wilson, Associate Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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