JUSTICE IN THE SOUTHWEST

PANELISTS, SPEAKERS & MODERATORS

CMCJ TEAM Alphabetical order

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WEBINAR 2 APRIL 1 2021

Jeffrey Alvarez Dr. Jeffrey Alvarez is the Chief Medical Officer for NaphCare and is board certified in Family Medicine. His professional life has focused on providing healthcare to underserved populations by working with federally qualified community health centers and correctional facilities. Dr. Alvarez is a physician surveyor and trainer for the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and serves on the NCCHC Board of Directors as the representative of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He also serves on the Accreditation and Standards committee and chaired the 2018 revision of the NCCHC Standards for Prisons and Jails. As CMO of NaphCare, Dr. Alvarez oversees all clinical care provided at over 30

correctional facilities across the country. Prior to his employment with NaphCare, Dr. Alvarez was the Director of Correctional Health Services at Maricopa County- the 4th largest jail system in the country.

Andre Anderson Andre Anderson is the newly appointed chief of the Rochester, NY police department. An experienced law enforcement veteran, he served as the Interim Police Chief of the Ferguson Police Department Missouri in July, 2015 in aftermath of the Mike Brown Jr. shooting. His efforts led to a multifaced approach to civil unrest which eased tension and created better relationships in the community. Anderson served as the catalyst for introducing modern day community policing and he worked closely with the faith-based community, the protest community, business leaders and

community members. He began his career as a law enforcement officer in Arizona,where he rose through the ranks to head major commands. He served as regional vice president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcements Executives (N.O.B.L.E.).

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Angela Banks Angela Banks is the Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Academy for Justice at Arizona State University. She is an immigration and citizenship expert whose research focuses on membership and belonging in democratic societies. Previously she has served as the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School, a legal advisor to Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal; an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC (now WilmerHale); and as law clerk for Judge Carlos F. Lucero

of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She received a B.A. in sociology from Spelman College summa cum laude and a Master of Letters in sociology from Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar. Professor Banks is a 2000 graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard International Law Journal.

Chris Burbank Chris Burbank is the Center for Policing Equity’s vice president for law enforcement strategy. Before retiring from law enforcement in 2015, he spent 24 years as chief of the Salt Lake City Police Department. In 2013, he was one of six police chiefs in the nation tapped to meet with President Barack Obama to confer on that administration’s initiatives to curb gun violence. In May 2010, Burbank and nine other police chiefs met with then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder regarding Arizona immigration laws. Burbank has addressed the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary regarding racial profiling and civil rights issues. A former first vice president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, he has won numerous

awards, including the Utah National Guard Minuteman Award and the Salt Lake Tribune’s Utahn of the Year citation. The University of Utah grad also graduated from the FBI’s National Executive Institute.

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Valentina De Fex Valentina De Fex is a Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. Prior to that, she joined the affiliate in April 2020 as its first Immigrants’ Rights Legal Fellow. Valentina assists in managing the ACLU of Utah’s legal docket and engagement across a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties issues. Before joining the ACLU of Utah, Valentina was an immigration attorney in Portland, OR. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her J.D. from Boston College Law School where she was awarded the

Susan Grant Desmarais Award for Public Service Achievement and Leadership and named a Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy Law Fellow. During law school, Valentina worked as a student attorney at Boston College Legal Services LAB Immigration Clinic and participated in the law school’s Ninth Circuit Appellate Project.

Sharon Dolovich Sharon Dolovich is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, and Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program. She also directs the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, which she launched early in the pandemic to track the impact of COVID-19 in prisons, jails and detention centers nationwide. Since the start of the pandemic, Dolovich has emerged as a leading national voice on the issue of COVID in custody. Her first law review article on the issue, Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19, appeared in November 2020 in the University

of Chicago Law Review Online. Earlier, Dolovich served as Deputy General Counsel for the Los Angeles Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence, which was charged with investigating use of force in the L.A. County Jail and making recommendations for institutional reform. She currently hosts Prison Law JD, a listserv for current law students and recent law graduates interested in advocating on behalf of people in custody.

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Aaron Ford Before his election as Nevada's Attorney General, Aaron Ford served as the Majority Leader of the Nevada State Senate. He has been the Minority Leader, Assistant Majority Whip, and previously held a leadership role on several legislative committees. He was recognized as best Senate Freshman by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rookie of the Year by the Reno Gazette Journal, and Senator of the Year by both Help Animals Nevada. Before practicing law, AG Ford served as a public school math teacher. Throughout AG Ford's career, he has always made time to give back to his community. Among his many community

accolades, he has served on the Clark County Justice of the Peace Selection Committee and recognized as a Mountain States' "Super Lawyer" and "Rising Star in Law." AG Ford is a former Board Member of the I Have a Dream Foundation, Olive Crest of Nevada, and Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada. In addition, he coached soccer, basketball, and t-ball.

Emily Kleeman Emily Kleeman, LCSW, has been executive director of the Reentry Initiative since 2018. Under her leadership the organization has expanded to provide wrap-around comprehensive support and therapeutic services to returning citizens in one spot, reducing the barriers to reentry, and increasing dignity and respect in their ability to be successful post release. A practitioner in the mental health field for over 15 years, Kleeman is a graduate of Colorado State University and received her Master in Social Work from the University of Maryland in 2011. She

successfully completed her requirements for a license in clinical social work in 2014.

Christina Leonard Christina Leonard is the executive editor of Cronkite News, the student-produced news division of Arizona PBS. She previously oversaw the Reynolds Business Bureau at Cronkite News. Leonard joined the Cronkite School after 17 years as a reporter and editor for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, the state’s largest media organization. As a reporter, she covered a variety of beats, including criminal justice and local government. Her leadership roles included serving as state and county political editor, assistant business editor and editor-in-chief of two business magazines, Arizona Woman and bizAZ. In 2010, she earned

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the prestigious Gannett Chairman’s Award for her leadership role in the newsroom. She also is the recipient of several awards from the Arizona Press Club and the Oklahoma chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She started her career as an intern for the Tulsa World and Claremore Daily Progress before being named a Pulliam Fellow at The Arizona Republic. Leonard lives in Goodyear with her husband and two children.

Marc Levin Marc A. Levin is the former chief of policy and innovation for the Right on Crime initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. An attorney and accomplished author on legal and public policy issues, Marc began the Foundation’s criminal justice program in 2005. This work contributed to nationally praised policy changes that have been followed by dramatic declines in crime and incarceration in Texas. Building on this success, in 2010, Levin developed the concept for the Right on Crime initiative, a TPPF project in partnership with Prison Fellowship and the American

Conservative Union Foundation. Right on Crime has become the national clearinghouse for conservative criminal justice reforms and has contributed to the adoption of policies in dozens of states that fight crime, support victims, and protect taxpayers. In 2014, Levin was named one of the “Politico 50” in the magazine’s annual “list of thinkers, doers, and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction.” Follow Marc on Twitter @MarcALevin

Erik Luna Erik Luna is the Amelia D. Lewis Professor of Constitutional & Criminal Law and Faculty of Law. In 2000, he served as the senior Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand at Victoria University Law School (Wellington, NZ). In 2016-17, he was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Birmingham (UK). Luna has also been a visiting scholar with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, DE), a visiting professor with the Cuban Society of Penal Sciences (Havana, a visiting professional in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (The Hague, NL), and a research fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn). Earlier, Luna served as a prosecutor in the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, and as a fellow and lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

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Ben McJunkin Ben McJunkin is an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice (ASU) as well as an Affiliated Faculty Member with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His scholarship focuses on the criminalization of sexual violence and the policing of marginalized communities.Taken together, his scholarship critiques legal liberalism and emphasizes the criminal law's expressive character—its ability to communicate social values and establish duties intended to guide conduct. Prior to joining the law school, Professor

McJunkin was an alumni fellow at the University of Michigan Law School, where he also earned his J.D. magna cum laude. Earlier, in private practice, he represented corporate clients in federal criminal investigations and related regulatory proceedings. Professor McJunkin's recent scholarship has been published in the Michigan Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the New Criminal Law Review, and the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law. He is also a frequent guest on podcasts and panels discussing the role of police in American society.

Alex Nowrasteh Alex Nowrasteh is the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and most other major publications in the United States. His peer‐reviewed academic publications have appeared in The World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice, and others. Alex regularly appears on Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, and numerous television and radio stations across the U.S.

Andy Potter Andy Potter is founder of One Voice United, a national nonprofit aiming to add corrections officers’ input to the national dialogue about criminal justice reform; and to help all stakeholders in that sphere identify common‐ground issues that more fully inform policies and approaches to reform. A former Michigan Corrections Officer, Potter is also executive director of the Michigan Corrections Organization (MCO), where, since 2015, he has spearheaded several new initiatives to revolutionize member engagement and to restructure staff and operations. In June of 2019, Potter was appointed vice president of

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the executive board of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU). Additionally, he is president of the SEIU Michigan State Council; chair of SEIU’s Conservative Member Engagement Committee; and chair of SEIU’s National Corrections Council. Potter has held gubernatorial appointments to several task forces, including, from 2004 to 2013, the Michigan Corrections Officers Training Council. He has spent more than three decades working in and around corrections.

Addie Rolnick Addie C. Rolnick is William S. Boyd School of Law Professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where she researches indigenous rights, juvenile and criminal law, and racial justice. In the latter, she focuses on Native people’s encounters with tribal, federal and state justice systems. She teaches federal Indian, criminal and civil rights law; critical race theory; and a tribal law practicum. For winter/spring 2021, she also is a University of Washington School of Law visiting professor. Rolnick is a

UNLV Race, Gender & Policing program board member and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System. Before joining UNLV, she was the inaugural Critical Race Studies Law Fellow at UCLA School of Law. Before that fellowship, she lawyered and lobbied for tribal governments in Washington, D.C.

Tom Ross Tom Ross was appointed executive director of Utah’s Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice on Jan. 2, 2021 by Gov.‐elect Spencer Cox. He is first former police chief to head the organization, which was created in 1983 to study and promote criminal justice police in the state and facilitate coordination between the branches of government. Ross was born and raised in Salt Lake City and has been in law enforcement for 34 years including the past 14 years as the Chief of Police for Bountiful City. He is a a former president of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and has been involved in numerous legislative issues impacting all facets of criminal justice. He has served on several boards and committees for civic organizations and for social service providers

with an emphasis on substance use and mental health. Ross holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in Criminal Justice with a minor in Legal Studies.

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Terry Greene Sterling Terry Greene Sterling has long written about the people, policies and landscapes of the U.S. Mexico borderlands. She was a Phoenix New Times staff writer for 14 years, and has bylines in many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Slate, Village Voice, The Guardian, High Country News, Arizona Highways, Salon.com, National Journal Magazine, Rolling Stone and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, where she is an Editor at Large. She was named Arizona’s Journalist of the Year three times among more than 50 international, national and regional journalism awards. She is the author of Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone (Globe Pequot Press, 2010) and coauthored with Jude Joffe-Block Driving

While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance (University of California Press, April 2021). Since 2003, she has taught narrative journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, where she is writer-in-residence and affiliated faculty.

Robert Warren Robert Warren served as a demographer for 34 years with the United States Census Bureau and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). He was Director of the INS’s Statistics Division from 1986 to 1995. One of his accomplishments at INS was to project accurate ranges of the number of unauthorized immigrants that would apply in each state under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). During his service, he also worked for three years with the staff of the Panel on Immigration Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences, which published the report, Immigration Statistics: A Story of Neglect co-edited with Daniel B. Levine and Kenneth Hill (National Academy Press, 1985). He retired from INS in January 2002.

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OUR TEAM

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Stephen Handelman Stephen Handelman is director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice and editor-in-chief of The Crime Report. A former prize-winning former columnist, foreign correspondent and senior writer/columnist for TIME magazine and The Toronto Star, he is the author of Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya, the first account of the rise of organized crime in post-Soviet Russia. In a follow-up book, Biohazard, he unraveled the Soviet bio-weapons program. A frequent commentator and lecturer on criminal justice

issues, transnational crime and organized crime, he has trained investigative journalists in Eastern Europe, Russia and Latin America. Steve earned his Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is a member of the board of communications alumni of the City College of New York, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Katti Gray Katti Gray is the journalism coordinator for the Justice in the Southwest Webinar series. A contributing editor for The Crime Report, the Center on Media, Crime and Justice’s national news & resources site, she specializes mainly in health and criminal justice news. Her work also has been published by The Washington Post, Reuters, Pulitzers, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Health Affairs, dailyRX, CNN, Chicago Tribune, CBS, ABC News and AARP, among others. Among other prizes, she shares a Pulitzer with a Newsday team. She has been a fellow of, among others, the Association of Health Care Journalists (where she is the mental health topics leader), Fund for Investigative Journalism, National Institutes of Health Medicine in Media , National Press Foundation and Rosalynn Carter Mental Health

Journalism programs. She runs New York University’s Urban Journalism Workshop.

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Christopher Graham Christopher Graham is the producer of the CMCJ’s fall-winter series of programs on criminal justice. He serves as technology coordinator and web designer for the International Thriller Writers (ThrillerWriters.org), Evil Eye Concepts (1001DarkNights.com), and several bestselling authors. He consults for a wide variety of companies and organizations that require technical, design, programming and various other IT services. He is the former founder of Backspace, LLC, and co-host of the Backspace Writers Conferences in New York City and the

Bahamas, as well as online workshops and classes, and a subscription-based online discussion forum with over 2,000 members.

Emily Riley

Emily Riley is a junior at the University of Maryland, College Park pursuing a double-major in multi-platform journalism and criminology and criminal justice. On campus, she is the Vice President for UMD’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and writes for the campus publication Stories Beneath the Shell. Over the summer, Emily worked with UMD on Rostros Físicos, a video project that tells the stories and struggles of representation in the STEM field for Hispanic and Latin Americans. Emily hopes to pursue a career that combines her passion for journalism and criminal justice issues.

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Michael Gelb

Michael Gelb is a rising senior at Cornell University, where he majors in Human Development and double minors in Law & Society and Inequality Studies. On campus, he is a member of a research lab that codes jury selections of death penalty cases to determine if and what effect the demographics of jurors have on the outcome of the case. He is co-president of a club that mentors incarcerated youth. In 2019, Michael interned for the Rockland County District Attorney's Office. Most recently, he conducted a mixed-methods research study on self-censorship in Rwandan media. Michael is focused on the intersection of media and law.

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