Innocent Until Proven Poor: Fighting the Criminalization of Poverty (2016)
February 19-20, 2016
Text of Keynote Remarks
SCHEDULE
Please see Program Details for full program descriptions.
Friday, February 19th, 2016
9:30-10:30 a.m. // Check-In & Refreshments
10:30-10:45 a.m. // Introductory Remarks & Warm Up
10:45-11:30 a.m. // Keynote Address
Vanita Gupta, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
11:45am-1:00 p.m. // Panel 1: Policing & Regulating the Poor
Tristia Bauman, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Kami Chavis Simmons, Wake Forrest Univ. School of Law
Vivek Sankaran, Univ. of Michigan Law School
Jonathan Smith, UDC School of Law
Moderated by Margo Schlanger, Univ. of Michigan Law School
1:00-2:00 p.m. // Lunch
2:15-3:30 p.m. // Panel 2: Jailing the Poor
John Chisholm, Milwaukee County District Attorney
Cynthia Jones, American Univ. Washington College of Law
Alec Karakatsanis, Equal Justice Under Law
Reuben Miller, Univ. of Michigan School of Social Work
Moderated by Eve Brensike Primus, Univ. of Michigan Law School
3:45-5:00 p.m. // Breakout Sessions
Breakout #1: Combatting the Criminalization of Poverty in Michigan: Successes and Challenges Across the Many Issues We Face
Miriam Aukerman, ACLU of Michigan
Desiree Ferguson, Michigan State Appellate Defender Office
Jonathan Sacks, Michigan Indigent Defense Commission
Breakout #2: Movement Lawyering
Purvi Shah, Center for Constitutional Rights
Amanda Alexander, Univ. of Michigan Law School
Breakout #3: Profiting Off the Poor
Sara Zampierin, Southern Poverty Law Center
Sarah Geraghty, Southern Center for Human Rights
Breakout #4: From Foster Care to Felony: An Examination of How School Decision Making Plays a Critical Role in the Criminalization of Abused and Neglected Youth
Elizabeth Bowker, Student Advocacy Center of Michigan
Mark Fancher, ACLU of Michigan
DaQuann Harrison, Youth Action of Michigan
5:15-6:15 p.m. // Day 1 Reception
Martha Jones, Univ. of Michigan Law School
Saturday, February 20, 2016
8:00-9:00 a.m. // Check-In & Refreshments
9:00-10:15 a.m. // Workshops Round 1
Workshop #1: A Local Community’s Collaborative Efforts to Reduce Jail Incarceration and Criminal Justice Racial Disparities
Aneel Chablani, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality
Carol Contrada, Lucas County Board of Commissioners
Judge Timothy Kuhlman, Toledo Municipal Court
Scott Sylak, Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Lucas County
Holly Matthews, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC)
Sean McNulty, Lucas County Public Defender’s Office
Workshop #2: How Public Defenders Can Fight the Criminalization of Poverty
Marilena David-Martin, Michigan State Appellate Defender Office
Colin Reingold, Orleans Public Defenders
Workshop #3: Winning Legal Challenges to the Criminalization of the Poor: Pay-or-Stay Sentencing, Panhandling, ‘Homeless Kidnapping,’ Welfare Drug Testing, and Living on Public Land
Mike Steinberg, ACLU of Michigan
10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. // Workshops Round 2
Workshop #1: Building a National Racial Justice Advocacy Capacity
Aneel Chablani, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality
Kimberly Merchant, Mississippi Center for Justice
Ellen Hemley, Sargent Shriver National Center for Poverty Law
Workshop #2: The Ohio Model for Combatting Modern Debtors’ Prisons
Mike Brickner, ACLU of Ohio
Jocelyn Rosnick, ACLU of Ohio
Workshop #3: Michigan’s Online Court Program: Enhancing Access and Fairness with Technology
J.J. Prescott, Univ. of Michigan Law School
Max Bulinski, Univ. of Michigan Law School
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. // Lunch & Day 2 Keynote Remarks
Sarah Geraghty, Southern Center for Human Rights
1:15-2:15 p.m. // Workshops Round 3
Workshop #1: Housing, Not Handcuffs: Finding Constructive Solutions to Homelessness
Tristia Bauman, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Workshop #2: Introduction to Litigating Bail
Alec Karakatsanis, Equal Justice Under Law
Workshop #3: Making a Buck While Making a Difference
Al Gerhardstein, Gerhardstein & Branch Co. LPA
2:30-3:00 p.m. // Next Steps Brainstorm & Closing Remarks
Colin Reingold, Orleans Public Defenders
