Legal Activism in Our New America
March 17, 2017Session One: Civil Rights Litigation and Political Protest v. Mass Incarceration
1:00 – 2:15 p.m., 1.5 CLE credits
Presented by
Sharlyn Grace, Chicago Appleseed Criminal Justice Policy Fellow
Katie Rosenfeld, Legal Director, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest &
Alexander Shalom, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU-NJ
Moderated by Stan Hickman, Senior Attorney, NYCDS
Session Two: What’s American? Immigration and “National Security” as Weapons
2:20 – 3:25 p.m., 1.5 CLE credits
Presented by
Genia Blaser, Staff Attorney, Immigration Defense Project
Brittany Brown, Immigration Unit Attorney, NYCDS &
Pardiss Kebriaei, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Consitutional Rights
Moderated by Zwi Wasserstein, Senior Attorney, NYCDS
Session Three: Where Do We Go From Here? Leading an Organization Amidst Governmental Hostility
3:40 – 4:40 p.m., 1 CLE credit
Presented by
McGregor Smyth, Executive Director, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest &
Vincent Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
Moderated by Stan German, Executive Director, NYCDS
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