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. Chicago 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 • Laura Fine, 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 Robyn Gabel • State Representative Will Guzzardi • State Representative Aaron Ortiz • State Representative Celina Villanueva 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.