RESILIENCE OF RACISM An Equal Justice Society Conference
June 1-3, 2017 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center #mindscience17
Information for Attendees CONFERENCE ADDRESS Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th Street Oakland, California ON-SITE ASSISTANCE Conference staff are on site to provide assistance, information, or support at any time during the conference. Please feel free to approach anyone with badges labeled “Staff” or “Volunteers”. FEEDBACK Please give us your feedback on the conference via email to events@equaljusticesociety.com or 510-629-9357. POST-CONFERENCE MATERIALS Following the conference, we will have digital audio available of all panels available at http://equaljusticesociety.org/mindscience. SOCIAL MEDIA EJS is on Twitter @equaljustice. We will have Twitter usernames posted on http://equaljusticesociety.org/mindscience. Our conference hashtag is #MindScience2017. FILMING Extended video recording or filming, including on social media, is not allowed during our conference. Some of our presenters may be sharing embargoed or proprietary information. ACCESSIBILITY If you require any services for accessibility or mobility, please see any of our staff at the registration desk. WEBSITE This program booklet and other resource materials will be posted on our conference website at http://equaljusticesociety.org/mindscience.
Eva Paterson President, Equal Justice Society
Welcome We are living in dangerous times. White supremacists, Islamaphobists, anti-Semites, xenophobes, and other hate-filled people feel emboldened and are acting to enforce their narrow world views. On another level, our national government is not only taking few steps to counteract this troubling dynamic, but instead is taking steps to ensure that structural racism is baked into the national psyche and institutions. Jeff Sessions’ new DOJ policies will result in more arrests that will fill our jails and prisons while enriching the owners of private prisons. Once again, money will be made off the backs and bodies of Brown and Black people. The mass incarceration described by Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow will continue unabated and will probably increase. When we had the idea for this conference last year, we wanted to expand our analysis and inquiry beyond implicit bias. We wanted to explore the explicit bias that we observed during the 2016 presidential election, as well as reacquainting ourselves with our old “friend” -- structural racism. The November election and subsequent events have given new urgency to our quest. Thank you all so much for joining us for this important gathering to explore how mind science can help us understand and deal with the many faces of racism. I would like to express my deep gratitude to those that made this conference possible, especially the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The California Endowment, our sponsors; Christopher Bridges and Anna Basallaje on our staff; and Laura Wallace, our consultant. Your support and efforts made this conference possible!
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Thursday, June 1 Opening Keynote Overview of the interconnectedness of implicit bias, explicit bias, and structural racialization. 9:00 a.m.
john a. powell Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society UC Berkeley
10:00 a.m.
Break Panel #1: Structural Racism, Explicit Bias: History, Present, Future - Root Causes, Manifestations, and the Impact of Racism on People of Color
10:15 a.m.
Jenn Richeson, Yale University Michael Harris, National Center for Youth Law Joey Williams, Director Faith in the Valley Kern
11:30 a.m.
Lunch, Complimentary Panel #2: Xenophobia, Communities of Color, and Implicit Bias - How Do We Broaden The Tent To Include More Under-represented People of Color in Discussions Addressing Bias? Holly A. Thomas, Deputy Director of Executive Programs, California Department of Fair Em-
1:00 p.m.
ployment and Housing Sara Campos, Consultant, Writer, and Immigrants’ Rights Attorney Victor Viramontes, Senior Counsel Mexican American Legal Defense Fund Kameelah Rashad, Founder & President, Muslim Wellness Foundation Crystal Echo Hawk, President & CEO, Echo Hawk Consulting
2:15 p.m.
Break Panel #3: Philanthropy and Implicit Bias - A Discussion on the Impact Implicit Bias Plays in
2:30 p.m.
Philanthropy and the Funding of Non Profits Crystal Echo Hawk, President & CEO, Echo Hawk Consulting Miguel GavaldĂłn, Nonprofit Leadership Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, and Consultant
3:45 p.m.
Break
4:00 p.m.
Facilitated Group Breakout Discussions
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Friday, June 2 Panel #1: Mass Incarceration: A Gateway for Racial Bias? - How Juries, Public Defenders, Prosecutors, and Judges Influence Bias in the Justice System 9:00 a.m.
Judge Bernice Donald, US Court of Appeal, Sixth Circuit George Gascรณn, San Francisco District Attorney William C. Snowden, Founder, The Juror Project
10:15 a.m.
Break Panel #2: The Epidemic of Police Shootings - Addressing the Epidemic of Police Shootings of Unarmed People of Color and its Relationship to How People of Color Are Seen In Our Legal Systems
10:30 a.m.
Jack Glaser, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Linda S. Greene, Evjue-Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School Margalynne Armstrong, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law Erin Kerrison, Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
Noon
Lunch, Complimentary Panel #3: Fighting Racism in the Courts: Using Disparate Impact Theory to Restore Equity - Discussing the Importance of Preserving Disparate Impact and Its Impact on Civil
1:30 p.m.
Litigation Linda S. Greene, Evjue-Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School Mona Tawatao, Senior Litigator, Western Center on Law & Poverty Allison Elgart, Legal Director, Equal Justice Society
2:45 p.m.
Break Film Screening & Discussion: Then They Came for Us And Then They Came For Us is a new documentary about the Japanese American incarceration
3:00 p.m.
by Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider, featuring George Takei. The film premiered in the Bay Area on May 13, 2017 at the DOCLANDS Documentary Film Festival in Mill Valley, Calif. Learn more about the film at http://www.thentheycamedoc.com.
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Saturday, June 3 Panel #1: Implicit Bias and Education - The Role of Implicit Bias in School Discipline and Influencing Positive Behavioral Outcomes 9:00 a.m.
Arianna Caplan, OUSD Restorative Practices School-based Facilitator Joseph Holden, OUSD Student accompanying Ms. Caplan James Thrasher, Education Management M. Rex Kedziora, Superintendent, Moreno Valley Unified School District
10:15 a.m.
Break Panel #2 – Dismantling the Intent Doctrine - A Look at the Progress, Victories, and Challenges Still Ahead in Dismantling the Intent Doctrine
10:30 a.m.
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean UC Irvine Law School Eva Paterson, President, Equal Justice Society Osagie Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics, Joint Medical Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Noon
Lunch, Complimentary Panel #3 –Interventions to Combat & Reduce Bias - Practical Steps to Help Reduce Bias
1:30 p.m.
Jason Okonofua, UC Berkeley Linda Tropp, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Rudy Mendoza-Denton, UC Berkeley
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
Facilitated Group Breakout Discussions
3:45 p.m.
Performance by the Talented Group, Young, Gifted and Black
4:30 p.m.
Conference Review and Reflections - Eva Paterson
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Our Funders and Sponsors Our deep gratitude to our funders and sponsors for helping us make this conference possible!
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Margalynne
Sara
Arianna
Armstrong
Campos
Caplan
Associate Professor, Santa Clara University Law School
Writer, attorney, consultant
Restorative Justice School Based Facilitator, Oakland Unified School District
Margalynne Armstrong is an Associate Professor at Santa Clara University Law School. She is has published articles and book chapters in the areas of racial discrimination, fair housing, privilege studies, comparative law and constitutional law. Prior to joining the law faculty at Santa Clara, Prof. Armstrong practiced public employment law and served as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley Law School, she is a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, serves on the boards of directors of several nonprofit organizations, and on the California State Bar Council on Access and Fairness.
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Sara Campos is a writer, lawyer, and consultant specializing in immigration and refugee issues. A graduate of UCLA Law, she worked at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area where she directed the Asylum Program. She also worked as a Staff Attorney for the National Immigration Law Center and taught Refugee Law at Golden Gate University and University of San Francisco Law Schools. Ms. Campos obtained an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College.
Arianna Caplan, LCSW/MPH, currently works as a Restorative Justice Facilitator at Oakland High School where she works to integrate restorative practices to strengthen the school community, promote equity, and develop student leadership. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a dual masters degree in Social Welfare and Public Health. She has been working in Oakland schools since 2011 providing mental health services and supporting Restorative Practices. Arianna has supported trainings on Restorative Practices in Oakland Unified School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, at Stanford University’s summer equity institute, and presented at the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice’s 2015 conference.
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Judge Bernice
Crystal
Chemerinsky
Donald
Echo Hawk
Founding Dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
President and CEO, Echo Hawk Consulting
Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science. He is the author of ten books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court, published by Viking in 2014, and two books to be published by Yale University Press in 2017, He is also the author of more than 200 law review articles. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court. In January 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. Chemerinsky holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
The Honorable Bernice B. Donald, a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, received her law degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Prior to being appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2011, she served on the U.S. District Court for more than fifteen years. She is currently a member of the prestigious American Law Institute, serves as Chair of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights and recently chaired a committee which has published an implicit bias resource book for judges and practitioners. Prior to this, she served as Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section, where her focus was on issues concerning implicit bias, children of incarcerated parents, mass incarceration, and the collateral consequences of incarceration.
Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee Nation) is President and CEO of Echo Hawk Consulting. Echo Hawk Consulting advises philanthropic clients on grantmaking, program development, research, communications, strategic partnerships, and policy change strategies. Echo Hawk Consulting is coleading an unprecedented national initiative, Reclaiming Native Truth: A Project to Dispel America’s Myths and Misconceptions. The project will develop public opinion research and a national strategy to tackle misconceptions, stereotypes, and the invisibility and false narratives about Native Peoples. Native Americans will be empowered to begin to change the hearts and minds of policymakers, institutions and society to achieve policy changes and increased equity and inclusion that will improve the lives of Native peoples. 9
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Allison Elgart
George Gascón
Miguel Gavaldón
Legal Director, Equal Justice Society
District Attorney, City and County of San Francisco
Nonprofit leadership coach, trainer, facilitator & consultant
Allison Elgart is Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society. She was named to The Recorder‘s 2013 “50 California Lawyers on the Fast Track” list, which recognizes 50 attorneys whose early accomplishments indicate they will be tomorrow’s top lawyers and leaders. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She has degrees in Public Policy and Psychology from Brown University. Allison has coauthored numerous amicus briefs to the Supreme Court on behalf of social psychologists, sociologists, and legal scholars. She is also a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and teaches a course entitled “Strategic Litigation for Racial Justice”. Allison clerked for the Hon. Robert P. Patterson, Jr., United States District Court, Southern District of New York and was also a summer law clerk for Public Advocates in San Francisco.
George Gascón is the District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. He is the first Latino to hold the office in San Francisco and the nation’s first police chief to become District Attorney. Since his appointment in January 2011, Gascón has earned a national reputation as a visionary in criminal justice reform. Throughout his tenure, he has implemented out-of-thebox solutions to build a public safety model predicated on reducing and preventing crime. Gascón has taken substantial steps to reduce overincarceration and assembled the Blue Ribbon Panel to investigate the SF Police Department in the wake of a scandal involving more than 14 SFPD officers exchanging racist and homophobic text messages, and, most recently, secured funding to create the Independent Investigations Bureau within the office to independently investigate acts of unconstitutional policing.
Miguel Gavaldon is a nonprofit leadership coach, trainer, facilitator, and consultant. He was previously an executive director and development director for several organizations, including the Equal Justice Society. Miguel began his career as a mentor for children and youth. Throughout the years, he’s learned that the challenges facing people did not solely stem from individual choices. Specific policies needed to be changed, and that specific institutions needed to be held accountable. He also learned that such work had to be done in partnership with community members, not in “representation” of them. Over the years his mentors have taught him how to best steward organizations’ human and material resources with the utmost care so that we can get to the business of fulfilling a mission.
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Abby Ginzberg
Jack Glaser
Linda S. Greene
Producer and Co-director, And Then They Came For Us
Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abby Ginzberg, has been producing award-winning documentaries about race and social justice for the past 30 years. She won a Peabody award for her film, Soft Vengeance, about anti-apartheid activist and judge, Albie Sachs. Her work as a documentary filmmaker took her to the Academy Awards in 2012 with The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, for which she was the Consulting Producer. The Barber premiered at Sundance in 2011, and won numerous awards for Best Short Documentary at film festivals across the U.S. Abby’s documentaries, Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey and Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice have won numerous awards, including a Silver Gavel and CINE Golden Eagle for Soul of Justice. She is the President of the Berkeley Film Foundation, and serves on numerous nonprofit boards.
Jack Glaser received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1999 and joined the faculty of the Goldman School in 2000. He is a social psychologist whose primary research interest is in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. In particular, he is interested in racial profiling, especially as it relates to the psychology of stereotyping, and the self-fulfilling effects of such stereotype-based discrimination. He has also conducted research on hate crimes and has carried out analyses of historical data as well as racist rhetoric on the Internet to challenge assumptions about economic predictors of intergroup violence. Glaser is working with the Center for Policing Equity as one of the principal investigators on a National Science Foundation- and Google-funded project to build a National Justice Database of police stops and use of force incidents.
Linda S. Greene is the EvjueBascom Professor of Law at the University of WisconsinMadison. Her teaching and scholarship are concentrated in the areas of Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Legislation, Civil Rights, and Sports Law. She received her B.A. from California State UniversityLong Beach, her J.D. from Berkeley Law and a Certificate in Public International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law. Before her teaching career, Greene was an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a deputy City Attorney in Los Angeles. She was the first African American woman to teach at Temple University Law School in 1978. In 1984, Harvard Law School invited her to become the first African American woman to teach at the law school. She also served for three years as a Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Michael Harris
M. Rex Kedziora
Erin Kerrison
Senior Attorney in Juvenile Justice, National Center for Youth Law
Superintendent of Schools, Moreno Valley Unified School District
Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
Martinrex Kedziora is the Superintendent of Schools for the Moreno Valley Unified School District, an urban California district serving 34,000 students. Originally, from Memphis, Tenn., Kedziora has been a middle school teacher, special education coordinator, K-8 Principal and Professional Development Director during his 30-year career. He serves as President for the California League of Middle Schools which serves teachers and administration K-12 and as an Education Faculty member for National and Brandman Universities. He is a committee member of the Urban Education Committee for ACSA. He also has leadership responsibilities as the Chair of the Advocacy Committee for the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades, and Vice President of the Moreno Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Erin M. Kerrison, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Kerrison’s work extends from a legal epidemiological framework, wherein law and legal institutions operate as social determinants of health. Her mixed-method research agenda investigates the impact that compounded structural disadvantage and state supervision has on service delivery, substance abuse, comorbidity, violence, and other health outcomes for individuals and communities marked by criminal justice intervention. Her current studies include an impact evaluation of bodyworn cameras on officer safety and legitimacy, and the measurement of plea bargaining bias that leads to racial disparity in court processing, conviction, and sentencing outcomes for indigent defendants.
Michael Harris is a Senior Attorney in Juvenile Justice at the National Center for Youth Law. At NCYL, Harris has worked on reducing racial disparities in statewide juvenile corrections systems, and worked on cases that challenge the “school-to-prison pipeline” in Texas and California. He also works on litigation to address implicit bias, and he has delivered presentations to local and national gatherings on the role implicit bias plays in decision making within the juvenile justice system. Before joining NCYL, Michael served as Deputy Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute in San Francisco, working to reform juvenile justice systems. Michael has worked in California, and Washington to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system using a collaborative process to affect systemic reform. He was a Staff Attorney and Assistant Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. 12
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Rodolfo
Osagie Obasogie
Jason Okonofua
Mendoza-Denton
Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics, University of California, Berkeley
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley odolfo Mendoza-Denton is R Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also Associate Executive Dean of Letters & Science and co-director of the Relationships and Social Cognition Laboratory. His professional interests include stereotyping and prejudice from the perspective of both target and perceiver, health outcomes of intergroup bias, and educational achievement. In 2015, he received the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence (CAAIE) for his work on promoting diversity and advancing equity and inclusion through scholarship, research, teaching, and service.
Osagie K. Obasogie is Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Genetics and Society. Obasogie’s interests include Constitutional law, bioethics, sociology of law, and reproductive and genetic technologies. He’s been published in the Law & Society Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Stanford Technology Law Review, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Scientist. His first book, Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Stanford University Press) was awarded the Herbert Jacob Book Prize by the Law and Society Association.
Dr. Jason Okonofua is a professor at University of California, Berkeley. He earned his doctorate at Stanford University with the guidance of Dr. Gregory Walton and Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt and currently works with them on a project that investigates psychological barriers to reintegration (return to home and school) for juvenile offenders. Jason’s research program examines socialpsychological processes that contribute to inequality. His research emphasizes the on-going interplay between processes that originate among teachers (how stereotyping can influence discipline) and students (how apprehension to bias can incite misbehavior) to examine causes for disproportionate discipline according to race. He aims to develop novel interventions that help racially stigmatized youth succeed in school and reduce their risk of discipline problems. 13
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Eva Paterson
Kameelah Rashad
Jennifer A. Richeson
President, Equal Justice Society
Founder and President, Muslim Wellness Foundation
Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad is the Founder and President of Muslim Wellness Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing stigma associated with mental illness, addiction and trauma in the American Muslim community. She is the Fellow for Spirituality, Wellness and Social Justice at the University of Pennsylvania. Kameelah is a 2014 Ariane deRothschild Fellow and a recipient of the 2014 Student Multiculturalism and Salter Family Memorial Education Awards from the Pennsylvania Psychological Association. Kameelah graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Psychology and MEd in Psychological Services. She received a second Masters in Restorative Practices & Youth Counseling (MRP) from the International Institute for Restorative Practices. She is pursuing her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Penn.
Jennifer A. Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She received a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Brown University, and a MA and PhD in social psychology from Harvard University. She was previously the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. Richeson’s research examines psychological phenomena related to cultural diversity. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals and publications such as The Economist and The New York Times. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2006, she was named one of 25 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows.
Eva Jefferson Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society. She previously served as Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was part of a broad coalition that won a groundbreaking lawsuit that successfully desegregated the San Francisco Fire Department. Paterson has been co-counsel on several landmark lawsuits in support of affirmative action: the federal lawsuit challenging California’s Prop. 209, and litigation against UC Berkeley’s admissions policy limiting access to students of color. Paterson has served as cocounsel on numerous amicus briefs in significant cases such as Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin; Farrakhan v. Gregoire; and Grutter v. Bollinger. She received her B.A. from Northwestern, where she was elected the university’s first African American student body president, and her law degree from UC Berkeley Law. 14
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William C. Snowden
Mona Tawatao
Holly A. Thomas
Founder, The Juror Project
Senior Litigator, Western Center on Law & Poverty
Deputy Director of Executive Programs, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing
As a felony trial attorney, William witnesses the discriminatory practices removing jurors from the jury panel on a regular basis. In response to these practices, William created The Juror Project, an initiative aiming to increase the diversity of jury panels while changing and challenging people’s perspective of jury duty. The Juror Project engages the community through informative meetings and group discussions. William frequently speaks at forums and community gatherings about the importance of jury service, the discriminatory practices of some prosecutors, as well as what members can do to actually get on a jury. Snoden also works as a supervising attorney at the Orleans Public Defenders. In Spring 2017, William was a PractitionerIn-Residence at UC Berkeley Law School discussing the role implicit bias and racial anxiety play in the voir dire process and in the deliberation room.
Mona Tawatao is a Senior Litigator with 23 years of legal services experience pursuing health, housing, land use and civil rights litigation and advocacy throughout California. She was a regional counsel for housing and land use for 12 years with LSNC where she also co-founded its Race Equity Project and has also taught housing law as a visiting professor at UC Davis School of Law. Mona received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law after which she clerked for the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. She serves on the boards of the Equal Justice Society and the Advisory Editorial Board of the Clearinghouse Review, among others.
Holly A. Thomas was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on July 22, 2016, to be deputy director of executive programs at the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. She previously served as Special Counsel to the Solicitor General at the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Before that, she was senior attorney in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice, working on issues related to education, voting, religious freedom, disability rights, employment, USERRA, immigration, criminal matters, sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Thomas served as a law clerk for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2004 to 2005. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.
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James Thrasher
Linda Tropp
Victor Viramontes
Education Management Consultant
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Senior Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
Linda R. Tropp is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She researches how members of different groups approach and experience contact with each other, and how group differences in status affect cross-group relations. She played a key role in presenting social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on racial integration, on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with nongovernmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict. She is co-author of When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact (2011), editor of the Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict (2012), and co-editor of Moving Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (2011).
Victor Viramontes serves as MALDEF’s National Senior Counsel. He was MALDEF’s lead counsel in its suit against Arizona’s anti-immigrant statute, SB 1070, and successfully argued a preliminary injunction challenging anti-day labor portions of the law in both district court and the Ninth Circuit. Before returning to MALDEF, he worked as a Senior Trial Attorney and Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Prior to joining the EEOC, Viramontes served as a Staff Attorney at MALDEF where he worked on a suit to build a school at the Ambassador Hotel site, among other cases. Viramontes graduated from Stanford University, and he received his law degree from Yale Law School. Viramontes served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carlos R. Moreno of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
James F. Thrasher, Ed.D., is the retired Assistant Executive Director, Human Rights/Community Outreach Department of the California Teachers Association (CTA). His duties centered around assisting CTA members and the children of California’s public schools to work through equity issues that arise. He also worked with community based organizations to insure that parents, students and communities have a voice in the educational process. First and foremost, Jim is a teacher. Jim was a Resource Specialist and Chair of the Special Education Department at Modesto High School for 22 years. He was also the Director of Special Education for the Akron, Ohio, public schools, a large urban school district, for three years before returning to California to work for CTA.
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Ellie Tumbuan Chief Strategy Officer, The Justice Collective
Joey Williams
Satsuki Ina
Director, Faith in the Valley Kern
Filmmaker, Psychotherapist
Joey Williams is the Chapter Director of Faith In Kern, part of Faith In The Valley, a PICO affiliate. People Improving Community through Organizing (PICO) the largest faith-based community organizing network in United States. Faith In Kern and PICO CA was instrumental in passage of Prop 47 in 2014, which reclassifies low level, nonsexual, and nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors. Williams also led efforts in Kern and the Central Valley to pass Props 55, 56 and 57, and was recently hired by PICO CA as it’s Integrated Voter Engagement Coordinator. Williams is a graduate of Santa Barbara City College and former ASB President. Williams returned to Bakersfield in 2007 and earned B.A. and M.A. from CSU Bakersfield, and served as a youth pastor for five years working with at risk youth. Williams was himself was a student in Kern High School District, and expelled under “Zero Tolerance”, and is a recipient of a reclassification under Prop 47.
Dr. Satsuki Ina is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at California State University, Sacramento and founder of the Family Study Center, a private psychotherapy practice in Sacramento and Berkeley specializing in the treatment of trauma. She produced two award-winning documentary films about the Japanese American incarceration, Children of the Camps and From A Silk Cocoon. Children of the Camps was nominated for a Northern California Emmy and was broadcast nationally on PBS from 1999 to 2003. In 2004, she served as consultant and assistant curator for an exhibit titled, Snow Country Prison: Interned in North Dakota, which was based on her father’s wartime haiku poetry and other historical documents she has collected. In her private practice, Ina specializes in crosscultural counseling, interracial marriages, transracial adoptions and diversity training for agencies and corporations.
Ellie Tumbuan is the Chief Strategy Officer of The Justice Collective, a Woman of Colorowned consulting firm based in Oakland, Calif., founded with inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement. As a mixedrace daughter of an Indonesian immigrant, her ambition to build equity into philanthropic purpose, practice, and policy is motivated by the intersectionality of her own identity and those of the resilient communities of color she’s lived in, worked in, learned from, and is a part of. She holds a Master of Public Administration with emphasis in Strategic and Urban Management from San Francisco State University’s School of Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, a BA in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach.
Joseph Holden Student, Oakland High School Joseph Holden is a senior at Oakland High School, graduating with the class of 2017. He plays basketball for Oakland High and plans to play in college. As part of the Peer Restorative Justice Program, Joseph has learned about issues involving inequality and discrimination. He recently completed his senior capstone project about the effects of the school to prison pipeline in minority communities. 17
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The National Implicit Bias Network The National Implicit Bias Network is one of the country’s leading resources and voices on implicit bias and the phenomenon’s interaction with structural racism and the resulting inequality in areas such as the legal system, law enforcement, education, employment and housing. We will be a platform for scholars, organizers, and advocates to translate academic research into practical information and tools that can be used to explain and address inequality. The Network’s objectives are to: Enhance and amplify the work by members on implicit bias. – Aggregate Network members’ work on implicit bias into one online destination (ImplicitBias.net) – Create a forum where implicit bias and mind science experts can share information and learn from each other. – Identify opportunities for Network members to collaborate. – Leverage members’ resources to uplift the work of other Network members (e.g. sharing news and developments with our email lists and social media channels). Advance public understanding of implicit bias and its impact in the workplace, the courts, in society, etc. – Gain acceptance of implicit bias in the law and by decisionmakers in employment, education, housing, contracting, and other sectors. – Advance and deepen public understanding and acceptance of implicit bias and other mind science phenomenon. – Organize regular convenings of academics, activists, and attorneys to share information as well as to identify ongoing research needs. Visit http://ImplicitBias.net to learn how to get involved!
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About EJS The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Specifically, EJS is working to fully restore the constitutional protections of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause by replacing the Intent Doctrine with a Disparate Impact standard that addresses contemporary forms of racism. Our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using cognitive science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. EJS STAFF Eva Paterson, President and Co-Founder Anna Basallaje, Director of Development Christopher Bridges, Legal Team Allison Elgart, Legal Director Ginger Johnson, Administrative Assistant Keith Kamisugi, Director of Communications EJS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mona Tawatao, Board Co-chair Senior Attorney, Western Center on Law and Poverty Priscilla Ocen, Board Co-chair Professor of Law at Loyola Law School John Bonifaz Co-Founder and Director, Free Speech For People Alfred Fraijo Jr. Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Michael Harris Senior Attorney, Juvenile Justice, National Center for Youth Law Raymond C. Marshall Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Kelly McCreary Actor/Activist Eva Paterson EJS President Jayashri Srikantiah Professor of Law, Director of Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
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Transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts.
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