Monday, June 17, 2019
Master of Ceremonies: Gary Apfel – Special Counsel, Pepper Hamilton LLP
Rachel Salem Pauley – Director of Government Programs and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar – Founder, The Aleph Institute
Hon. Bernice Donald – U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and Rewriting the Sentence 2019 Summit Chair
Hon. Jeremy Fogel
First Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute and former Director of the Federal Judicial Center
Moderator: Rabbi Yossi Bryski – Director, Alternative Sentencing Division, The Aleph Institute
Hon. Frederic Block – U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of New York
Hon. Virginia Phillips – Chief U.S. District Judge, Central District of California
Hon. Esther Salas – U.S. District Judge, District of New Jersey
Hon. Brooke Wells – U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Utah
Moderator: Lucy Lang – Executive Director, Institute for Innovation in Prosecution, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
John Creuzot – District Attorney, Dallas County, TX
Lawrence Krasner – District Attorney, Philadelphia, PA
Rachael Rollins – District Attorney, Suffolk County, MA
Hon. Nancy Gertner
Former U.S. District Judge, District of Massachusetts and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Michael Troncoso – Director of Criminal Justice, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Kara Gotsch – Director of Strategic Initiatives, The Sentencing Project
Marc Levin – Vice President of Criminal Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation and Right on Crime
Udi Ofer – Director, Campaign for Smart Justice, American Civil Liberties Union
Hon. Letitia James
State Attorney General, New York
Moderator: Holly Harris – Executive Director, Justice Action Network
Matthew Charles – FAMM Criminal Justice Fellow
Rep. Douglas Collins – U.S. House of Representatives, 9th Congressional District of Georgia
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries – U.S. House of Representatives, 8th Congressional District of New York
Moderator: Raul Ayala – Supervising Deputy Federal Public Defender for Collaborative Courts, Central District of California
Hon. Ann Aiken – U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon
Colleen Smith – Clinical Director, Newark Community Solutions
Hon. Ursula Ungaro – U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida
Moderator: Jeff Cook-McCormac – Head of Public Affairs, Third Point LLC
Zachary Klein – City Attorney, Columbus, OH
Matthew Alsdorf – Founder and President, Pretrial Advisors
Joanna Weiss – Co-Founder and Co-Director, Fines and Fees Justice Center
Moderator: Jeremy Travis – Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice, Arnold Ventures
Hon. Paul Fishman – Former U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey
Hon. John Gleeson – Former U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of New York
Doris Randle-Holt – Federal Public Defender, Western District of Tennessee
Hon. Brett Tolman – Former U.S. Attorney, District of Utah
Cyrus Vance – District Attorney, Manhattan, NY
Compendium
Disrupting the Cycle: Reimagining the Prosecutor’s Role in Reentry
Federal Prosecution for the 21st Century
21 Principles for the 21st Century Prosecutor
The Rachael Rollins Policy Memo
Prosecution that Earns Community Trust
Prosecutors and Frequent Utilizers
Prosecution and Public Defense
The Next Step: Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Moderator: Julian Adler – Director of Policy and Research, Center for Court Innovation
Elizabeth Glazer – Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice
Insha Rahman – Program Director, Vera Institute of Justice
Dr. Marie VanNostrand – Director of Data Analytics, Luminosity, Inc.
Rabbi Aaron Lipskar – Executive Director, The Aleph Institute
Benjamin Brafman – Brafman & Associates, P.C.
Joy Fishman – Harm Reduction Advocate, Drug Policy Alliance and Board Member at the Aleph Institute
Moderator: John Pfaff – Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
Lauren-Brooke Eisen – Senior Fellow, Brennan Center’s Justice Program
Dr. Gipsy Escobar – Director of Research Innovation, Measures for Justice
Moderator: Louis Reed – National Organizer, DreamCorps #cut50 Initiative
Hon. Matthew D’Emic – Presiding Judge of the Brooklyn Mental Health Court
Francis Greenburger – Founder, The Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice
Cheryl Roberts – Executive Director, The Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice
Moderator: Cori Chertoff – Consultant, Alternative Sentencing Division, The Aleph Institute
Matthew Charles – FAMM Criminal Justice Fellow
Topeka Sam – Founder and Executive Director, The Ladies of Hope Ministries
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Hon. Bernice Donald – U.S. Circuit Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and Rewriting the Sentence 2019 Summit Chair
Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt – Professor of Psychology, Stanford University and co-director of SPARQ
Moderator: Hanna Liebman Dershowitz – Director of Special Projects, Alternative Sentencing Division, The Aleph Institute
Rebecca Brown – Director of Policy, Innocence Project
Commissioner Rodney Ellis – Harris County, Texas, Precinct One
Rep. Roger Goodman – Chair, House Public Safety Committee, Washington State Legislature
Moderator: Professor Douglas Berman – Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
Hon. Marilyn Mosby – State’s Attorney, Baltimore, MD
Arthur Rizer – Justice Policy Director, R Street
Moderator: Chief Christine Dozier – Chief U.S. Pretrial Services Officer, District of New Jersey
Mark Gjelaj – Deputy Chief U.S. Probation Officer, Eastern District of New York
Vincent Schiraldi – co-Director, Columbia University Justice Lab and Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work
Michael Williams – Senior Manager for Adult Policy, Public Safety Performance Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Dr. Kevin T. Wolff – Program of Doctor Studies in Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Hanna Liebman Dershowitz
Director of Special Projects, Alternative Sentencing Division, The Aleph Institute
Video: Mercy Montage
Moderator: Norman Reimer – Executive Director, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Prof. Rachel Barkow – Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
Hon. Leo Sorokin – U.S. District Judge, District of Massachusetts
Moderator: Elizabeth Komar – Director of Innovations and Site Learning, Fair and Just Prosecution
Lindsay LaSalle – Director of Public Health Law and Policy, Drug Policy Alliance
Michael Jacobson – Executive Director, CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
Rebecca Shaeffer – Senior Lawyer, Fair Trials
Hon. Bernice Donald
U.S. Circuit Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and Rewriting the Sentence 2019 Summit Chair
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar
Founder, The Aleph Institute
Compendium
Presentation by Prof. Rachel Barkow
Presentation by Hon. Leo Sorokin
Disrupting the Cycle: Reimagining the Prosecutor’s Role in Reentry
Willie Horton’s Shadow: Clemency in Massachusetts
Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative Justice Programmes in Criminal Matters
Is Prison the Answer to Violence?
Reckoning With Violence, The New York Times
The Demise of Clemency for Lifers in Pennsylvania
Restorative Justice for Violent Crime
The Mercy Lottery: A Review of the Obama Administration’s Clemency Initiative
The Clemency Process Is Broken. Trump Can Fix It., The Atlantic