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Join us for the 2019 ACS Midwest Regional Convening, September 5-6 in Milwaukee, hosted by the ACS Milwaukee Lawyer Chapter and the ACS Marquette University Law School Student Chapter!
The convening will begin on Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 5:30 p.m., with Criminal Injustice: A Conversation with Exonerated Attorney Jarrett Adams.
Jarrett Adams, Exonerated Attorney
A panel discussion on criminal justice reform in Wisconsin will follow, featuring:
- Jarrett Adams, Exonerated Attorney
- Hon. Colleen Nordin, Door County District Attorney
- Craig Mastantuono, Partner, Mastantuono & Coffee S.C.; Chair, ACS Milwaukee Lawyer Chapter
- Melinda Swartz, Appellate Attorney, Law Office of Melinda Swartz
You will have a sneak peek opportunity to tour America's Black Holocaust Museum after the official program concludes. The program will end by 7:20 p.m.
This event is co-sponsored by the Milwaukee National Lawyers Guild, the Milwaukee School of Engineering's University Scholars Honors Program, the Milwaukee Turners' Confronting Mass Incarceration Committee, and the Wisconsin Justice Initiative.
On Friday, September 6, the program will continue with breakfast, a discussion on careers in policy co-sponsored by the Marquette Law Public Interest Law Society, lunch, and a panel discussion on ballot access, redistricting, and election integrity in 2020. You can find the schedule below:
10:30 a.m. Light Breakfast + Welcome Keynote Remarks
11:00 a.m. Panel 1: Professionals in Policy: How to Do Well While Also Doing Good.
Featuring:
12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. Panel 2: Ballot Access, Redistricting, and Election Integrity: What’s Ahead in 2020
Featuring:
- Meghan Paulas, ACS Senior Director of Chapters
- Bryant Plank, ACS Marquette Chapter President
11:00 a.m. Panel 1: Professionals in Policy: How to Do Well While Also Doing Good.
Featuring:
- Jennifer Bolger Breceda – Executive Director of Milwaukee Riverkeeper.
- Jon Richards – Attorney/Partner at Ziino, Germanotta, Knoll & Christensen, consultant with Clean Wisconsin and Community Advocates, Former Wisconsin State Assembly Member.
- Edgar Lin – Wisconsin Justice Initiative Board Member. Attorney at Buting, Wiliams, & Stilling, S.C. where he practices immigration, civil rights, and criminal law.
- Daniel A. Cotter – Attorney and Counselor at Howard and Howard and concentrates his practice around a broad spectrum of private and public sector entities in corporate matters, Author of The Chief Justices
- Vicky Selkowe – Director of Legislative, Rulemaking and Training Compliance at Legal Action of Wisconsin.
- Moderated by: Bryant Plank, President of ACS Marquette Chapter
12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. Panel 2: Ballot Access, Redistricting, and Election Integrity: What’s Ahead in 2020
Featuring:
- Professor Atiba Ellis – member of the Marquette University Law School faculty and expert on voting rights theory and how ideology affects the scope of the right to vote.
- Shauntay Nelson – Wisconsin State Director of All Voting is Local.
- Mark Thomsen – Commissioner of the Wisconsin Elections Commission
- Matt Dannenberg – Census Director at Wisconsin Voices Inc.
- Moderated by: Professor Lisa Mazzie, ACS Marquette Faculty Advisor
Thursday, September 5, 2019
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. CT
America's Black Holocaust Museum
401 West North Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Friday, September 6, 2019
10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT
Marquette University Law School
1215 West Michigan Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Co-Sponsors:
