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Past DAAC Events
A Community Conversation: Victims & Survivors in the Criminal Legal System
PANEL:
Moderated by Lex Steppling, Dignity & Power Now
Jody David Armour, Author and USC Law Professor
Susan Hess, Trauma Informed LA, Unchained Scholars
Helen Jones, Dignity & Power Now
Susan Bustamante, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Alyesha Wise, Poet, Spoken Literature Art Movement
A Community Conversation: Steps Towards Decarceration
PANEL:
Moderated by Molly Greene, LA DAAC
Yehudah Pryce, LA DAAC, Beit T’Shuvah
Baba Akili, BLM LA
Sean Kennedy, Loyola Law School’s Center for Juvenile Justice & Policy
Jamarah Hayner, Gascón’s 2020 Campaign Manager and co-led Gascón’s transition team
Reimagining Justice 3 Of 3: Identifying And Correcting Wrongful Convictions: The Path Forward
PANEL:
Patricia Cummings, Supervisor, Philadelphia District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit
Marissa Bluestine, Assistant Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
George Gascon, District Attorney Candidate, Los Angeles County
Jackie Lacey, District Attorney, Los Angeles County (Invited)
From Arrest to Parole: Public Safety Through a Social Justice Lens
Presented by Loyola’s Project for the Innocent and the District Attorney Accountability Coalition
Part 1 of 3: Reimagining Justice: Creating a New Vision of Policing, Prosecution, and Punishment.
PANELISTS:
• Keith Wattley: Founder and Executive Director of UnCommon Law which has helped secure the release on parole of 240 inmates by helping them prepare for parole hearings.
• Adnan Kahn: Executive Director and Co-Founder of Re:Store Justice, which he co-founded while incarcerated. Adnan was sentenced to 25 years to life, and spent 16 years in jail, under the arcane felony murder rule, that allows accomplices to be held equally responsible for deaths that happen during a felony that is committed - even if they did not commit murder. Adnan was the champion of SB 1437 which amended the Felony/Murder rule. He created FIRSTWATCH, a media filmmaking project produced entirely by incarcerated men at San Quentin State Prison that still produces short films today. He continues to do advocacy work both nationally and internationally.
• Robin Steinberg: Founder and CEO of The Bail Project, an unprecedented national effort to combat mass incarceration by transforming the pretrial system in the US. Over a 35-year career as a public defender, Robin represented thousands of low-income people in over-policed neighborhoods and founded three high-impact organizations: The Bronx Defenders, The Bronx Freedom Fund, and Still She Rises.
• Moderated by Sean Kennedy : Executive Director, Center for Juvenile Law & Policy. Kennedy was the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of CA from 2006 to 2014 and has also served as Chief of the Federal Public Defender Capital Habeas Unit. In 2013, Kennedy was named Criminal Defense Attorney of the Year by the LA County Bar Association.
KEYNOTE (below):
Larry Krasner, Philadelphia District Attorney in conversation with Geneviéve Jones-Wright, Founding Executive Director of Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance
Moderated by Nikki Herst-Cook, Project for the Innocent.
The Defund Movement: What it Means for the LA DA’s Office
Panelists:
Facilitated by Megan Baca, Attorney - Loyola Project for the Innocent
Moderated by: Eunisses Hernandez, Co-Executive Director - La Defensa
• George Gascón, DA Candidate LA County
• Greg Akili, Organizer- Black Lives Matter LA
• Jane Dorotik, Exoneree and Prison Reform Advocate
• Ivette Ale, Senior Policy Lead - Dignity and Power Now
• Dr. Christine Scott-Hayward - Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, CSULB
Closing remarks by Pastor William Smart, SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference
LA District Attorney Practices in the Time of Covid: What needs to happen to save lives
Panelists:
Facilitated by Megan Baca Project for the Innocent - Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Opening remarks by Greg Akili, Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles
Moderated by Summer Lacey, #thejusticecollaborative and Michael Saavedra Dignity and Power Now and Youth Justice Coalition
• Dr. Shamsher Samra, clinical health care provider for LA Jail System.
• Nikhil Ramnaney, president of the Local 148 (LA County Public Defenders Union) and public defender in Long Beach court
• Robin Steinberg, founder and CEO of The Bail Project
• Diana Zuniga, Regional Collaboration, Whole Person Care at LA County Dept. of Health Services.
• Closing remarks by Pastor William Smart, SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference