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Sentencing Second Chances: Addressing Excessive Sentencing with Escape Valves, panel at Aleph Institute’s Rewriting the Sentence Summit, June 18th, 2019

Professor Douglas Berman (Moderator) – Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
Hon. Marilyn Mosby – State’s Attorney, Baltimore, MD
Arthur Rizer – Justice Policy Director, R Street

Speakers:

• Leslie Mayfield, Second Chances Advocate, Zion, IL
• Joshua Boyer, Second Chances Advocate, Hopwood & Singhal, Washington, DC
• Tewkunzi Green, Second Chances Advocate, Illinois Prison Project, Chicago, IL
• Anthony Jones, Second Chances Advocate, Illinois Prison Project, Chicago, IL
• Dwayne White, Second Chances Advocate, Zion, IL

This panel took place on February 18, 2022.

Speakers:

• Larry Kupers, Former Federal Pardon Attorney, Washington, DC
• Len Goodman, Criminal Defense Attorney, Chicago, IL
• Shon Hopwood, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
• JaneAnne Murray, Professor of Practice & Director of Clemency Project, University of Minnesota Law School
• Huma Rashid, Clemency Attorney, Aleph Institute

This panel took place on February 18, 2022.

Speakers:

• Jennifer Soble, Founder & Executive Director, Illinois Prison Project
• Steven Drizin, William M. Trumbull Clinical Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
• Ben Finholt, Director, Just Sentencing Project, Duke Law
• David Singleton, Executive Director, The Ohio Justice & Policy Center
• Steve Zeidman, Professor & Director, Criminal Defense Clinic, CUNY School of Law

This panel took place on February 18, 2022.

Speakers:

• Judith Miller, Clinical Professor of Law, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, University of Chicago Law School
• Mark Osler, Professor and Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law
• Shanna Rifkin, Deputy General Counsel, FAMM, Chicago, IL
• Michael Romano, Director, Three Strikes Project, Stanford Law School

This panel took place February 18, 2022.

Speakers:

• Alison Siegler, Clinical Professor of Law & Founding Director, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, University of Chicago Law School
• Erica Zunkel, Clinical Professor of Law & Associate Director, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, University of Chicago Law School
• Jennifer Soble, Founder & Executive Director, Illinois Prison Project
• Alison Guernsey, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director, Federal Criminal Defense Clinic, University of Iowa School of Law
• Vida Johnson, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
• Mira De Jong, Staff Attorney, Illinois Prison Project
• Amy Kimpel, Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction and Director, Criminal Defense Clinic, University of Alabama Law School

This panel took place on February 17, 2022.

Speakers:

• Orlando Mayorga, McCormick Reentry Policy Coordinator Fellow of the Justice, Equity, and Opportunity Initiative (JEO) Initiative at Illinois Lt. Governor’s Office
• Yaacov Delaney, Director of Justice, Equity and Opportunity (JEO) Initiative at Illinois Lt. Governor’s Office
• Renaldo Hudson, Director of Education at the Illinois Prison Project

This panel took place February 17, 2022.