Panelists

Meet the Panelists

Nina Aledort
NYS Office of Children and Family Services

Amore Alvarenga
New York City Law Department Family Court Division

Leigh Bates
NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services

Gayle Beck
Athena Project, University of Memphis 

Daphnne Brown
Families Together in NYS

Kelli Casemen
Think Kids

Tanya Coke
Ford Foundation

Rebecca Colman
NYS Office of Children and Family Services

Christy Crawford
New York City Department of Education

MMA Amara Ekeruche
Center for the Study of Economies of Africa

Eddie Ellis
Incarcerated Children's Advocacy Network

Eddie Fergus
Temple University, College of Education, Urban Education and Policy

Alysha Gagnon
University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice

Stephen Goldmeier
Indigent Defense Research Association

Audrey Hickert
Southern Illinois University

David Hureau 
University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice

Megan Kurlychek
Penn State University

Yo Jackson 
Penn State, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network

Allen Lipscomb
California State University Northridge

Jim Lynch
University of Maryland

Hon. Edwina Mendelson
Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives

Dan Mistak
Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

Amanda Oren
Monroe County Law Department 

Gregory Owens
NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services

Rashaad Porter
The Vera Institute of Justice 

Professor John A. Powell
UC Berkeley, Director of Othering & Belonging Institute 

Josh Rovner
The Sentencing Project

Melissa Sickmund
National Center of Juvenile Justice

Michaela Soyer
CUNY, Hunter College

Lynette Tannis
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Paul Taylor
University of Colorado Denver 

Hon. Steven Teske
Juvenile Court of Clayton County, GA

Dina Thompson
Erie County Restorative Justice Coalition

Laura Tinajero
National Comadres Network, Building Healthy Communities (BHC)

Vivian Tseng
William T. Grant Foundation

Michael Umpierre
Georgetown University Director of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform

Corey Whichard
University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice

Chris Wildeman
Cornell University 

Yamanda Wright
RTI International; Youth, Violence Prevention, and Community Justice Division