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- Casey Trupin Liaison from ABA Commission on Homelessness Poverty Seattle, WA
- Samantha Healy Vardaman Liaison from Shared Hope International Arlington, VA 22209
- Lydia Watts Liaison from the National Legal Aid Defenders Association Washington, DC
- Stephanie Williams Liaison from ABA Section of International Law Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Peter Zinober Liaison from ABA Section of Labor Employment Law Tampa, FL
Kristal Rivers Liaison from ABA Judicial Division Lawyers’ Conference Chicago, IL Kristal Rivers joined the Illinois Attorney General's office in 2010. In this capacity she is assigned to the Sexually Violent Persons Bureau where she seeks to civilly commit persons who have been convicted of a sexually violent crime and have been found to have a mental disorder that makes it substantially probable that they will commit another sexually violent crime. Prior to her position there, Mrs. Rivers was in solo practice from 2001 to 2010, focusing on real estate transactions and litigation. Before solo practice, Mrs. Rivers was a prosecutor with the Dallas County Prosecutor's office in Dallas Texas, where she served as a Chief Prosecutor in misdemeanor courts and as a lead felony prosecutor in the Child Abuse Division. During her tenure as a prosecutor Mrs. Rivers has been lead trial counsel in 97 jury trials. She received her Bachelor of Science cum laude from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and her J.D. from Drake University. Casey Trupin Liaison from ABA Commission on Homelessness & Poverty Seattle, WA Casey Trupin is the Coordinating Attorney for the Children and Youth Project at Columbia Legal Services in Seattle, where he advocates for at-risk, homeless and foster youth. Trupin has served as counsel to thousands of foster youth and homeless adults in litigation and worked on state and federal legislation designed to improve services to low-income children, youth and adults in Washington State and nationwide. Trupin is Co-Chair of the Children’s Rights Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) and is a Special Advisor to the ABA’s Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, which he chaired from 2006-09. Trupin co-teaches the Legislative Advocacy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law, and previously taught Street Law. Trupin has authored or edited numerous books and articles on at-risk, homeless and foster children, including Educating Children without Housing: A Primer on Legal Requirements and Implementation Strategies for Educators, Advocates and Policymakers (3d Ed.) (ABA, 2009). In 1997, Trupin co-founded Street Youth Legal Advocates of Washington (SYLAW), and went on to direct the program until 2005. From 2005-2006, Trupin worked on federal child welfare policy as Counsel for Special Projects at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) in Washington, D.C. Trupin has received national recognition for his work, including the ABA’s Child Advocacy Award—Distinguished Lawyer (2011), the National Network for Youth Advocacy Spirit Award (2010), and the Congressional Angel in Adoption Award (2005). From 2006-12, Trupin served as the Inaugural Chair of the William H. Gates Public Service Law Program. Trupin graduated from the University of Washington School of Law with honors in 1999. Samantha Healy Vardaman Liaison from Shared Hope International Arlington, VA 22209 Samantha is Senior Director and Counsel for Shared Hope International. She directed research for the DEMAND report and documentary for the U.S. Department of State and for the National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking for the U.S. Department of Justice. Samantha designed and directs the Protected Innocence Challenge, which establishes a framework of laws necessary to combat child sex trafficking in each state and leads advocacy efforts to institute and implement these laws. She also oversees Shared Hope’s domestic and international grant program funding services and shelter for victims of sex trafficking. Previously, Samantha served as the director of the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative’s Moldova office developing anti-trafficking legislation, training, and legal services for victims of trafficking. She is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Miami, School of Law. Lydia Watts Liaison from the National Legal Aid & Defenders Association Washington, DC Lydia C. Watts, Esq., Director of Quality and Program Enhancement, Civil Programs, NLADA. In this role, Ms. Watts manages a number of projects for the Program Enhancement Committee of the Civil Policy Group of NLADA, including Measuring Outcomes and Research and the Strategic Advocacy for Lasting Results (SALR) Initiative. Ms. Watts also serves as the Deputy Director of the D.C. Access to Justice Commission and is a principal of Greater Good Consulting LLC, which consults with nonprofits on a variety of organizational management, leadership and development issues. During her third year of law school, Ms. Watts founded WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc.), a Washington D.C.-based agency that provided teen and adult victims of domestic violence with a wide range of services, including legal, counseling, clinical case management, economic literacy and empowerment, outreach, and education. She served as WEAVE’s Executive Director from 1995 until June 2005. During that time, WEAVE grew from a staff of two with an annual budget of $130,000 to a staff of 24 with an annual budget of $2.5 million, and merged with two sister-organizations: the Women Economic Development Fund and the Emergency Domestic Relations Project. Ms. Watts served as Executive Director of the Victim Rights Law Center based in Boston, MA and the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy (MATP). Ms. Watts is a member of the LeadBoston class of 2009, Leadership Washington Class of 2003, was named “Woman of Justice” by Massachusetts Lawyers’ Weekly in 2009, “Washingtonian of the Year” by Washingtonian magazine in 2001, and was a recipient of the First Annual Peter Cicchino Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy from Washington College of Law of American University in April 2000. She graduated summa cum laude from Washington College of Law of American University in June 1996 and from Boston University in January 1991. Stephanie Williams Liaison from ABA Section of International Law Fort Lauderdale, FL Stephanie Williams, Juris Doctor, is the Vice President of Janus Institute For Justice LLC, an international human rights law advocate, social entrepreneur and gender expert. She has more than eighteen years of experience in her field and has assisted the victims of rape, torture, botched honor killings, female genital mutilation, human trafficking, modern-day slavery, domestic violence, hate-crimes, child abuse, social, economic and environmental injustices. Williams worked in the field of international human rights prior to law school. Her first international effort involved traveling to Kenya in the summer of 1994 with a group of students from her college (Hendrix) to help build a school and perform other volunteer functions. While teaching English, she met numerous refugees who had recently fled from neighboring Rwanda during the genocide. She encountered many women and children who had been brutally gang-rape, mutilated and tortured. She worked diligently to gain their trust and understand their needs. Williams used the information she learned to help local leaders from Nairobi to Meru to set up seven refugee health and learning centers. Future trips to the area inspired her to start initiatives aimed at eradicating female genital mutilation (FGM), reducing violence against women, and assisting former child soldiers. Soon thereafter she began to work as a research field analyst for a nonprofit located in Brixton, England. In that capacity, she helped developed localized programs and events that offered an alternative to female cutting as a rite of passage. Ms. Williams holds a Bachelor’s of Art degree, magna cum laude, in political science with an emphasis in gender studies. She graduated with honors from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was the recipient of the Sonia Yadr Schneider Scholarship, the H.O.P.E. Fellowship, and the Res Ipsa Loquitor Writing Award. She was a founding member of the UM Wrongful Conviction Project, a contributing writer for the law school newspaper, and Executive Editor of the University of Miami International & Comparative Law Review. Williams studied at University of Oxford and the University of Ghana as an undergraduate. She attended the University College of London for two summers while in law school. In 2009, Williams decided to return to the international arena. She became a bi-coastal resident (New York – Florida) and established herself as a social entrepreneur and human rights consultant for NGOs, IGOs, think tanks, and nonprofit organizations committed to researching, identifying, assessing and eradicating human rights abuses around the world. She has worn many hats during her career, including that of a co-founder, project coordinator, program director, legislative liaison, social media manager, communications director, press editor, executive officer, board member and field analyst. Williams has written extensively on the subject of human rights, and she occasionally gives lectures, organizes education and awareness campaigns or events, and participates in topical symposiums or seminars. Peter Zinober Liaison from ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law Tampa, FL Peter ("Pete") W. Zinober is a labor and employment lawyer specializing in the defense of employment discrimination cases in state and federal court, both jury and non-jury, as well as wage and hour, disability discrimination, age and all other types of employment litigation. He also specializes in "traditional" labor management relations law, including the representation of employers in connection with unfair labor practice and representation case proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, labor and non-union arbitrations, collective bargaining and counseling. Pete has had an illustrious career thus far, which is exemplified by his inclusion in many of the world’s leading legal ranking publications, including Chambers USA Guide where he was named a "Star Performer," and in The Best Lawyers in America for 25 consecutive years, receiving Best Lawyers’ "Lawyer of the Year" award in 2013. Pete has also been listed as a "Leading Lawyer" in Lawdragon 3000, as a "Legal Elite" in Florida Trend magazine, in Human Resource Executive magazine, where he was named among the "Top 100 Employment Lawyers in the United States" in four consecutive years, and in Super Lawyer magazine, where he was named among the "Top 100 Lawyers in Florida" from 2006-2011, and among the "Top 10 Lawyers in Florida" in 2006. In addition to earning various accolades as an attorney, Pete is actively involved in the legal community having served as Chairman of the Florida Bar Labor Law Section, Chairman of the Florida Bar Labor Law Advisory Committee, President of the Tampa Bay Business Committee for the Arts and presently as a member of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Tampa Area Office Advisory Committee. He received his J.D. from Florida Levin College of Law, where he served as Chancellor of the Honor Court, and his L.L.M. from George Washington University. He has numerous Court and NLRB decisions and orders published on Westlaw, representing clients from United Airlines and Wal-Mart, to Winn Dixie and Anheuser-Busch. Pete is admitted to practice across every district in Florida, the Supreme Court of Florida, the 1st, 5th, and 11th Circuits, as well as the District of Columbia Courts of Appeal. He has argued cases all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. Directory: content -> dam -> aba -> administrative administrative -> 110 american bar association task force on the financing of legal education report to the house of delegates administrative -> Revised 102b resolution administrative -> American bar association coalition on racial and ethnic justice section of individual rights and responsibilities administrative -> Application for acquiescence in a major change administrative -> Keith M. 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