Milwaukee County Courts:

Judge Carl Ashley (Chair)

Judge Brittany Grayson

Judge Cynthia Davis

Judge Danielle Shelton

Judge Mary Triggiano

Judge Jeffrey Kremers (ret.)

Stephanie Garbo

 

Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office

John Chisholm

Jeffrey Altenburg

Kelly Hedge

 

Milwaukee Community Justice Council:

Mandy Potapenko

Erin Perkins

Jarvell Williams (MU Trinity Fellow)

 

Public Defenders Office:

Tom Reed

Katie Holtz

Dawn Rablin

Paige Styler

 

Milwaukee Police Department:

Captain Timothy Leitzke

Nick DeSiato

 

Milwaukee County House of Correction:

Superintendent Chantel Jewell

 

Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office:

Douglas Holton, Jr.

 

Wisconsin Department of Corrections:

Tejuana King

Niel Thoreson

Dionna Clemmons

 

Milwaukee County Office on African American Affairs:

Jeff Roman

 

US Attorney's Office:

Ken Gales

 

Community Partners:

Sharlen Moore (Urban Underground)

Geraud Blanks (Milwaukee Film)

The War on Neighborhoods – Ryan Lugalia-Holton

America’s Original Sin – Jim Wallis

Tears We Cannot Stop – Michael Eric Dyson

White Rage – Carol Anderson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson

The Law of Color, by Richard Rothstein

Between the Wold and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

Biased, by Jennifer Eberhardt

How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

The New Jim Crow: mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander

White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo

These Truths, by Jill Lepore

The Serving Leader, by Ken Jennings

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

Solitary, by Albert Woodfox

Message to the Black Man in America, by Elijah Muhammad

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Evicted, by Matthew Desmond

Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, by Nell Burnstein

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicaho, by Alex Kotlowitz

2022

April 8, 2022 - Conference - “Making our Community Safer & Reducing Mass Incarceration through a Restorative Justice Lens” - Event Flyer | Day of Event Agenda with Bios

February 3, 2022 - Book Club - "Until We Reckon," by Danielle Sered - Virtual Event

2021

 

2020

February 28, 2020 - Conference - "Advancing Racial Equity in Milwaukee's Justice System"

 

2019

August 13, 2019 - Book Club - "Locking Up Our Own Crime and Punishment in Black America," by James Forman Jr.

March 1, 2019 - Conference - "White Privilege," play + Discussions

2018

October 4, 2018 - Special Event - Racial Inequality, Poverty, and the Criminal Justice System at Marquette University Law School

Featured Speaker: Bruce Western.  Flyer

2017

October 27, 2017 - Conference - The Impact of Race in the Criminal Justice System

Featured Speakers: Cecilia Klingle, Michael O'Hear, Lawrence Berger, Reggie Jackson, Lois Quinn

2016

October 14, 2016 - Conference - The Impact of Race in the Criminal Justice System

Featured Speakers: John Chisholm, Adam Foss, Glenn Martin, and Jeff Robinson

2015

October 2015 - Conference

"The Science of Implicit Bias"- Law School Dean L. Song Richardson and Attorney Jeffrey Robinson, Director ACLU Center for Justice

"The Science of Trauma" - Tim Grove, Chief Clinical Officer at Saint A’s and Judge Mary Triggiano

“The Culture of policing in the 21st Century” - Sue Rahr, Executive Director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission

“Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) a pre-booking, community-based practice” - Lisa Daugaard, Director of the Public Defender Association

2014

October 2014 - Conference - The Shared History of Racial Division in America by Attorney Jeffrey Robinson, Director ACLU Center for Justice