Lenore Anderson is Director of Public Safety for Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums. She joined Mayor Dellums' staff in October, after serving as the Director of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice in San Francisco. In San Francisco, Lenore developed numerous initiatives to strengthen community policing, enhance social services and job training opportunities for probationers, improve the juvenile justice system, and strengthen gun control. She also helped lead a citywide violence prevention planning process that involved both city and community agencies.

Prior to her tenure in the San Francisco's Mayor's Office, Ms. Anderson served as Director of Books Not Bars, a statewide program of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. There she created and developed the first-ever statewide network for parents of incarcerated youth and she spearheaded the Books Not Bars "Alternatives for Youth" campaign to educate state policymakers on juvenile justice issues and advocate for reforms. This campaign garnered extensive public attention to juvenile justice issues and contributed to the development of a sweeping youth corrections reform effort at the state level.

She also served on the Board of Directors for the Center for Young Women's Development (CYWD) for five years. She received the PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in 2004 and she was awarded a Soros Justice Postgraduate Fellowship from 2001 to 2003. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 2001 where she was a Root-Tilden Kern Public Interest Scholar.

Dr. Yitzhak Bakal is the founder and President (1974 to present) of North American Family Institute, Inc. (NAFI), a large multi-service organization providing innovative community based services in eleven states. From 1970-1973, Dr. Bakal served as Assistant Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, playing a key role in reorganizing services for youth and the development of community based services. NAFI, under Dr. Bakal’s leadership, has been a pioneer in the development of alternatives to institutionalization. These include tracking, a variety of forms of residential care, wrap around services, and the creation of continuums of care.

Dr. Bakal is the co-author of three books dealing with issues relating to juvenile justice and correctional youth reform, including Reforming Corrections for Juvenile Offenders published by D.C. Heath Lexington Books. He also published numerous books relating to residential care, corrections, youth at risk, and family intervention. Dr. Bakal provides on-going consultation and training nationally in the field of correctional reform. He is currently working on a new book dealing with at risk and delinquent youth and the need for new and innovative service delivery.

Dr. Bakal received his Bachelor’s degree at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, his Master’s degree at Columbia University, and his Doctorate at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Gordon Bazemore is Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Community Justice Institute, at Florida Atlantic University. His research has focused on juvenile justice and youth policy, restorative justice, crime victims, corrections, and community policing.

Dr. Bazemore has 30 years experience in juvenile justice practice, research and training/technical assistance, and he has directed research and action projects funded by the National Institute of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other public and private agencies. He served as a consultant, researcher and trainer to the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services’ (HRS) initiative on juvenile pre-adjudicatory detention reform (as prescribed in the FL Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 1990).

Since 1993, Dr. Bazemore has been the Director of the Balanced and Restorative Justice Project funded by the Federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He has advised and provided training and technical assistance to more than thirty states and several federal agencies on juvenile justice, offender reentry, restorative justice, and victim services reform.

James Bell is the Founder and Executive Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI). Mr. Bell and his colleagues at the Burns Institute are working with systems and community stakeholders to reduce disproportionality of youth of color in the juvenile justice system in twenty three jurisdictions throughout the country. He also guides the BI's Community Justice Network for Youth, a national network of programs working successfully with young people of color.

James has extensive experience in the international juvenile justice arena: he assisted the African National Congress in the administration of the juvenile justice system in South Africa; worked with Palestinians and Israelis on alternatives to juvenile incarceration; trained government officials and activists on the human rights of children in Cambodia, Kenya, Brazil and France; and worked closely on restorative justice policy with officials in New Zealand and Australia. This summer he traveled to China to work with Chinese officials and policymakers on proven-risk youth.

Prior to founding the Burns Institute, James served as a Staff Attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco for over twenty years, representing incarcerated youth. James is the recipient of a Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, the Livingstone Hall Award from the American Bar Association, Attorney of the Year from the Charles Houston Bar Association, the Advocate of the Year from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Moral Leadership Against Injustice Award of the Delancey Street Foundation, and the Local Hero Award from the San Francisco Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2007, he was awarded the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.

Shay Bilchik is the founder and Director of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Systems Integration at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. The Center’s purpose is to focus the nation’s pubic agency leaders, across systems of care and levels of government, on the key components of a strong juvenile justice reform agenda. This work will be carried out through the dissemination of papers on key topics, the sponsorship of symposia, and the creation of a Certificate Program at Georgetown providing public agency leaders with short, but
intensive study.

Prior to joining the Institute in March 2007, Mr. Bilchik was the President and CEO of the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), a position he held from February of 2000. He led CWLA in its advocacy on behalf of children through his public speaking, testimony and published articles, as well as collaborative work with other organizations.

In 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006, Mr. Bilchik was named among The NonProfit Times Power and Influence Top 50 for making his mark in the public policy arena and championing child welfare issues. Prior to his tenure at CWLA, he headed up the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advocated for and supported a balanced and multi-systems approach to attacking juvenile crime. Before coming to the nation's capital, Mr. Bilchik was an Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Florida from 1977-1993, where he served as a trial lawyer, juvenile division chief, and Chief Assistant State Attorney.

Mr. Bilchik earned his B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Florida. He and his wife Susan are the proud parents of two young adults, Melissa and Zach.

Tina Borner is the Director of Detention Alternative Programs with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. Tina has worked in several different aspects of Juvenile Justice. She has been a Juvenile Detention Officer (1996-1998), a Detention Training Specialist (1998-2001), an Assistant Detention Administrator (2001-2004) and a Probation Supervisor (2004-2007) all with the Pierce County Juvenile Court in Tacoma, Washington.

Her last position with the court was as the Supervisor for the Alternative to Detention Services Unit and the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI) Coordinator. She was responsible for the leadership, coordination, advocacy and data-driven strategies for the Court’s disproportionate minority confinement and detention alternatives programs. Tina has also worked as an independent consultant with the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Tina is an alumnus of the University of Washington, Seattle, WA where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989.

Judge Irma J. Brown is a native to Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Marymount University. As an attorney she represented abused, neglected, abandoned children and parents, in the dependency system and minors in the delinquency court. She began her judicial career in 1982 as a Commissioner of the Compton Municipal Court and in 1986 she was appointed to the bench by Governor George Deukmejian.

Judge Brown is a founder and past president of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles; founding member of 100 Black Women of Los Angeles and has served on the Governor’s Task Force on Women and Children. She has also served as Chair of the Governing Committee of the Center for Judicial Education and Research.

She has taught at the community college level, law school level, and in judicial education. Judge Brown has presided over juvenile delinquency matters since 2001 and is currently the supervising judge of the Inglewood Juvenile Delinquency Court of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Sue Burrell joined the Youth Law Center as a Staff Attorney in 1987. She has focused primarily in the area of juvenile justice, serving as counsel in civil rights litigation and appellate court cases; presenting at conferences and workshops; drafting and testifying on legislation; and writing and consulting on a wide range of juvenile justice issues.

She was a member of the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Working Group, and for more than a decade has trained juvenile system professionals on facility conditions for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. She has advocated for increased access to mental health, medical and educational services for youth in the system. She has also worked in California and nationally to improve legal representation for young people in juvenile proceedings.

Ms. Burrell began her legal career as a trial lawyer and juvenile appellate/training specialist for the Office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender, and as an appellate lawyer for the Office of the California State Public Defender.

Judith A. Cox is the Chief Probation Officer in Santa Cruz County. She has been a probation officer in Santa Cruz since 1978. Prior to coming to Santa Cruz, she worked as a social worker in public child welfare systems in the states of Colorado and Ohio. She has a degree in Social Work from Kent State University.

Ms. Cox authored a widely acclaimed journal article on addressing disproportionate minority representation in the juvenile justice system for the California Judicial Council. She has presented for the California Board of Corrections, the California Institute of Mental Health, the National Juvenile Detention Association and the Federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention on numerous topics related to Juvenile Justice Reform.

She is a member of the California Judicial Council’s Administrative Office of the Court’s Juvenile and Family Law Advisory Committee. She is also the leader of the Santa Cruz County Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation for which Santa Cruz is one of four national model sites.

Fania Davis, a lecturer at the New College of California School of Law and a founding Member of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), was born in Birmingham, Alabama, land of the Alabama, Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw people, and came of age in the fifties and sixties, during the great social ferment of the Civil Rights era.

The deaths of close friends Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robinson in the 1963 Birmingham Sunday School bombing stoked inner fires of an enduring commitment to fundamental social change. For the next two and one-half decades, she followed the way of the warrior as activist in the civil rights, Black students', women's, prisoners', anti-apartheid and socialist movements. She now lives in Oakland, California, land of the Miwok, Pomo and Ohlone.

For almost twenty-five years she has been an attorney, specializing in employment discrimination litigation, with a subspecialty in academic discrimination.

Karen de Sa is a staff writer for The San Jose Mercury News where she does special projects on the social welfare beat. In recent years, she has focused exclusively on foster care and juvenile justice issues, expanding her knowledge as one of twenty international journalists selected for the 2006-07 John S. Knight Fellowship Program at Stanford University. Before joining the Mercury News staff in 1999, she worked as a correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at a number of Bay Area daily newspapers, covering social services and welfare reform.

A native of the Bay Area, de Sa earned her bachelor's degree from San Francisco State University, with a major in Women's Studies. She has received numerous awards for her work, including Outstanding Journalist of The Year and Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year from the Society of Professional Journalists; two Casey Medals for Distinguished Reporting on Children and Families, and The Unsung Hero Award from the Youth Law Center.

She lives in East Palo Alto, California with her husband, a master of Afro-Brazilian martial arts, and at varying times different combinations of her four children, ages twenty one to two.

Judge Marta Diaz was appointed to the San Mateo County Superior Court by Governor Pete Wilson in February 1997. Since 2000, Judge Diaz has been the Presiding Juvenile Court Judge in San Mateo County Superior Court.

Prior to becoming a judge, Judge Diaz had her own practice handling primarily juvenile dependency cases from 1993 to 1997. From 1981 to 1993, Judge Diaz worked as a Deputy District Attorney in San Mateo County, including over three years in the juvenile court.

Born in Oakland and raised in San Mateo, Judge Diaz is the daughter of immigrants. Her father was a jockey from Cuba; her mother a retired postal worker who came from Mexico City. After studying at the University of Mexico and the College of San Mateo, Judge Diaz earned her bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University and her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Judge Diaz lives in Foster City with her husband and two children.

Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director and founder of the Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC), is a child advocate who teaches, lectures and writes about children’s law, juvenile justice, the needs and rights of youth, and international human rights. CFJC is a holistic children's law center and a national policy center for the comprehensive needs of adolescents and their families, providing critical analysis and knowledge about youth law and practice, matters associated with the administration of justice, and the preparation of professionals who advocate for children. The CFJC is a clinical center of the Bluhm Legal Clinic, preparing law and social work students by representing adolescents in three strategic areas of children’s law: juvenile and criminal justice; school discipline and education law; and immigration and asylum law involving children and women.

CFJC, in partnership with the National Juvenile Defender Center, is conducting an assessment of juvenile defender practices in Illinois, and is coordinator of the Illinois Coalition for Fair Sentencing of Children. Dohrn serves on the Boards of Directors of the W. Haywood Burns Institute, the Juvenile Justice Initiative, the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights, the Public Square, and the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. She is a member of the Local School Council of the Nancy B. Jefferson School, the steering committee of the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Committee, and co-chair of the National Children’s Law Network.

Dohrn is an author and co-editor of two books: A Century of Juvenile Justice (2002) and Resisting Zero Tolerance: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers and Students (2001) and the author of "Somethin’s Happening Here: Children and Human Rights Jurisprudence in Two International Courts", UNLV L.Rev. Summer 2006. She is annually a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Human Rights Program and Leiden University faculty of law in the Netherlands. Dohrn is a graduate of the University of Chicago College and the Law School.

Christopher Edley, Jr. joined Boalt Hall as dean and professor of law in 2004, after 23 years as a professor at Harvard Law School. He earned a law degree and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, where he served as an editor and officer of the Harvard Law Review. Edley's academic work is primarily in the areas of civil rights and administrative law. He has also taught federalism, budget policy, Defense Department procurement law, national security law, and environmental law. Edley was co-founder of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a renowned multidisciplinary research and policy think tank focused on issues of racial justice. His publications include Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values and Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy.

From 1999-2005, Edley served as a congressional appointee on the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 2001, he was a member of the Carter-Ford National Commission on Federal Election Reform. He is currently a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and of The Century Foundation. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Law Institute. He also serves on the executive committee of the advisory board for the Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council, which is the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences. At UC Berkeley, he is founder and faculty-Co-Director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, a multidisciplinary think tank.

In March 2006, Dean Edley was named to a national nonpartisan commission created to conduct an independent review of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. In April 2007, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which conducts scholarly activities and interdisciplinary research to advance the public good, elected Dean Edley as one of its new Fellows.

Gwen Foster, senior program officer for The California Endowment, is the staff lead for The Endowment’s statewide grant-making in the area of mental health. She is responsible for the development and implementation of Foundation-initiated efforts to improve the mental health and well-being of vulnerable populations in low-income communities. She currently manages initiatives to strengthen collaborations to deliver mental health services in juvenile justice systems, strengthen integration of mental health services in community clinics, and improve access to services for children in the foster care system.

In 2005, Ms. Foster was appointed to the Prevention and Early Intervention Committee of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission; the committee developed a vision and framework to guide the distribution of over $150 million annually from the Mental Health Services Act. In 2006, Ms. Foster co-chaired the Annual Conference Planning Committee for Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families.

Ms. Foster began her career as a clinical social worker in Bay Area children’s mental health programs at Children’s Hospital, San Francisco and Alameda County Mental Health Services. She went on to the University of California at Berkeley School of Social Welfare, where she taught courses and developed internships for graduate students in public and nonprofit mental health settings. She shifted her career to the field of philanthropy, becoming a grantmaker at Zellerbach Family Foundation, and then at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She currently serves on the board of the Parent Services Project. Ms. Foster received an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Mills College, and a Master’s degree in Social Welfare from UCLA.

Mary Louise Frampton, director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, has a long record of involvement in social justice issues. She spent much of her career at a Central Valley civil rights practice that focused on issues of discrimination in employment. Prior to the establishment of that firm in 1974, Frampton was the directing attorney of the Madera office of California Rural Legal Services. She was on the first board of directors of the California Women Lawyers Association, was the founder of the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the Federal Bar
Association and helped establish the first local chapter of the federal Inns of Court.

Frampton has represented several community coalitions, including a group of Latino, African- American and women’s groups that increased diversity in hiring and programming in network and local television stations. The second-largest school district in the state was the target of several of Frampton’s Title VII cases to enhance promotional opportunities for African-American educators. In the 1980s she obtained the largest economic damages figure in an employment case awarded by the Fair Employment and Housing Commission, and in the early 1990s she won the biggest verdict in a sex discrimination action in the Central Valley. She also represented women in their efforts to compel enforcement of Title IX at state universities and obtain slander damages against a prominent radio personality for his homophobic and misogynist attacks on women athletes. On appointment by the federal court in Sacramento, Frampton continues to represent two death row inmates in their federal habeas corpus actions.

In 2003 Frampton was named a National Bellow Scholar by the Public Interest Committee of the American Association of Law Schools. The award honors projects that involve law students and faculty in anti-poverty or access to justice work.

Loni Hancock has had a remarkable public service career, spending more than three decades as a forceful advocate for open government, educational reforms, environmental protections, health care, economic development and social justice. She has served at the local, state and federal levels, including under Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

Assemblywoman Hancock chairs the Assembly Select Committee on Bridging the Achievement Gap. Under her guidance, the Committee has tackled issues related to high dropout rates, school- to-career programs and oversight of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Last year, the Governor signed legislation authored by Assemblywoman Hancock that greatly expands career technical education programs for high school students. In addition, the Assemblywoman sits on the Committee on Rules and chairs the Subcommittee on Sexual Harassment and Violence Prevention. She is a member of the Committee on Education, the Committee on Housing and Community Development, the Budget Committee and the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services. As a member of the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, she helped expand health care programs for children, increased funding for foster youth programs and fought cuts in Medi-Cal stipends and proposed cuts to programs for seniors and people with disabilities.

Assemblywoman Hancock has lived in Berkeley since 1964 and is married to Tom Bates. They have four children and seven grandchildren.

Kamala D. Harris, San Francisco District Attorney, is a veteran prosecutor who has dedicated her outstanding legal talents to prosecuting violent crime, combating the sexual exploitation of children, fighting elder abuse and working creatively to improve the quality of life in San Francisco. Raised in Berkeley, DA Harris graduated from Howard University and received her law degree from Hastings College of the Law. DA Harris began her law enforcement career in 1990 as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County. Over eight years, she handled hundreds of serious and violent felony cases, including homicide, rape and child sexual assault crimes.

Throughout her career, DA Harris has made youth and children a priority. She spearheaded the founding of San Francisco's first Safe House for sexually exploited youth and recently sponsored statewide legislation that toughens punishment for child sex predators. One of her first steps after taking office, was to create San Francisco's first dedicated prosecution team to handle all child assault cases. DA Harris also co-sponsored the California Trafficking Victims Protection Act, signed into law in September 2005, which makes human trafficking a felony crime in California. The law is one of the most comprehensive of its kind in the nation, combining both criminal punishment and civil remedies to combat trafficking.

In July 2006, DA Harris was elected to the National District Attorneys Association's Board of Directors and was appointed to Co-Chair its Corrections and Re-Entry Committee. She was also selected to Co-Chair the California District Attorneys Association Sex Crimes Committee, and was selected by the Aspen Institute as one of the nation's emerging public figures.

Joan Heifetz Hollinger, a Lecturer in Residence at Boalt Hall School of Law, is a leading American scholar on adoption law and practice, as well as on the psychosocial aspects of adoptive family relationships. She is centrally involved in efforts to overhaul the laws governing American and inter-country adoptions, and is an outspoken advocate in the courts and in the media on behalf of children who are at risk of being neglected, abused, or abandoned. Hollinger is the reporter for the Proposed Uniform Adoption Act, a member of the federal Children's Bureau task force on "Achieving Permanency for Dependent and Foster Care Children," and the author of the ABA guide to the Multiethnic Placement Act. She has also served on the U.S. State Department's advisory group on inter-country adoption and is drafting model parentage laws to serve the needs of children conceived through assisted reproductive technology.

Hollinger is the principal author and editor of the three-volume treatise Adoption Law and Practice. Her most recent book is Families by Law: An Adoption Reader (NYU, 2004). Since moving to the Bay Area from Ann Arbor, Michigan, she and her Boalt students have served as amicus curiae on behalf of children in a number of precedent-setting adoption and parentage cases in state and federal courts.

Jakada Imani is Ella Baker Center’s new Executive Director, but he is hardly a newcomer to the Ella Baker Center team. For years, Jakada has been a lead strategist and chief team member on some of the Ella Baker Center’s most high profile campaigns.

Most recently, Jakada spent a year heading up Books Not Bars, taking the ongoing campaign to replace California’s abusive youth prisons with effective rehabilitation programs to ever-increasing heights. Before that, Jakada helped lead the successful “Stop the Super Jail Campaign,” a two-year effort to stop Alameda County from building a massive, expensive and remote juvenile hall that it didn’t need. He was a leader in the “Justice for Moreno and Pacheco Campaign,” the successful fight to free two wrongly convicted Latino boys in Solano County. And he ran Ella Baker Center’s youth organizing project, Third Eye Movement, during the “No on 21” campaign to educate voters about the dangers of Proposition 21, a draconian ballot measure aimed at putting 14-year-olds in adult courts and 16-year-olds in adult prisons.

Before joining Ella Baker Center staff, Jakada was a Constituent Liaison for Oakland City Councilwoman Nancy Nadel. He helped launch or lead a number of important Bay Area organizations, including Empowered Youth Educating Society (EYES), Rising Youth for Social Equality (RYSE) and Underground Railroad (an artist collective). Born and raised in Oakland, California, Jakada is also the father of three powerful and creative young girls.

Barry A. Krisberg has been the president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) since 1983. He is a part-time lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and at the Legal Studies Program. He is known nationally for his research and expertise on juvenile and criminal justice issues and is called upon as a resource for professionals and the media.

Dr. Krisberg has been appointed to serve on several commissions and panels by multiple state agencies including, a California Blue Ribbon Commission on Inmate Population Management assembled by the legislature, an Expert Panel to investigate the conditions in the California Youth Authority developed by the Attorney General, and an Expert Panel on Improving Rehabilitation and Reentry Programs established by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Dr. Krisberg has also assisted in investigations of correctional systems for the Special Litigation Branch of the United States Department of Justice and the California Office of Inspector General. Recently, Dr. Krisberg organized a California Task Force on Prison Crowding and was named in a consent decree to help develop remedial plans and to monitor many of the mandated reforms in the Youth Authority.

In addition to holding several teaching posts, Dr. Krisberg has several books and articles to his credit including Crime and Privilege; Juvenile Justice: Redeeming Our Children and A Sourcebook: Serious, Violent, & Chronic Juvenile Offenders with James C. Howell, J. David Hawkins and John J. Wilson. His memberships include the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Association of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, and the Association of Criminal Justice Researchers. He is past president and fellow of the Western Society of Criminology and was the Chair of the California Attorney General’s Research Advisory Committee. In 1993 he was the recipient of the August Vollmer Award, the American Society of Criminology’s most prestigious award. The Jessie Ball duPont Fund named him the 1999 Grantee of the Year for his outstanding commitment and expertise in the area of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. Dr. Krisberg received his master’s degree in criminology and a doctorate in sociology, both from the University of Pennsylvania.

Hon. Kurt Kumli is a Superior Court Judge in Santa Clara County, appointed to the bench by Governor Schwarzenegger in January 2006. Prior to that, he spent seventeen years in the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office as a Deputy, Supervising Deputy and Chief Deputy District Attorney. For over fifteen years, he worked exclusively on children’s issues, becoming the primary policy advisor and administrator for all matters relating to child abuse and neglect, human trafficking, juvenile justice, and schools. In addition to his extensive trial and administrative experience, he has been instrumental in creating innovative responses for cases involving drug
offenders, family violence, restorative justice and mental health. He also created Santa Clara's juvenile deferred entry of judgment (DEJ) process, which now accounts for nearly 25% of all first time juvenile court referrals in the county.

Judge Kumli is a nationally recognized expert in juvenile law and policy, serving on the faculty for the University of Santa Clara Law School, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER), and the California Judges Association. He is a recipient of a John B. Pickett Fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and his work in juvenile justice has been featured nationally on "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "Frontline," MSNBC, and National Public Radio. On a local level, his involvement with at-risk youth, in the community as well as in the courtroom, was documented in the book "Somebody Else's Children," by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Hubner.

Judge Kumli is the co-author of "California Juvenile Courts: Practice and Procedure" (Matthew Bender, Lexis Publishing) which is a primary resource for attorneys, bench officers, law schools, and juvenile justice professionals since 1995. His other publications include articles on gang prosecution, juvenile justice reform, juvenile mental health court, and California's adult court certification (Fitness) process. In 2004, he served as an original member of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Juvenile Justice Working Group (now the Juvenile Justice Data Project), charged with reformation of the Division of Juvenile Justice, formerly CYA.

Jonathan Laba is a deputy public defender in Contra Costa County, California. He is the Deputy Director of the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center (PJDC), a regional affiliate of the Washington, D.C.-based National Juvenile Defender Center. Among other PJDC activities, Mr. Laba founded PJDC’s Juvenile Amicus Committee in early 2006 with the goal of creating a working group of trial, appellate, and nonprofit attorneys practicing juvenile delinquency law to coordinate and collaborate on legal and policy issues of statewide concern.

Mr. Laba moderates a California listserv concerning youth prison issues, and is the co-author of the chapter on juvenile delinquency proceedings in California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice. This fall, he is teaching Children and the Law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco.

Mr. Laba received his J.D. in 1996 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Patricia Lee has been a Deputy Public Defender in San Francisco since 1978, and has been practicing in the Juvenile Courts since 1981. She is currently the managing attorney for the Juvenile Division of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.

Ms. Lee is currently serving as the co-chair of the juvenile justice committee of the Asian Youth Advocacy Network, an organization devoted to reducing substance abuse and violence amongst Asian and Pacific Islander youth in San Francisco. She is a core member of the John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, an interdisciplinary agency bridging research, policy and practice for our “at-risk” youth. The Network seeks to expand the base of knowledge about the origins, development, prevention, and treatment of juvenile crime and delinquency; to disseminate that knowledge to professionals and the public; to improve decision-making in the current system; and to prepare for the next generation in juvenile justice policy and practice.

Ms. Lee is the recipient of the 2005 “Woman Warrior” Award for the Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition and was named a recipient of The California Wellness Foundation's 2007 California Peace Prize, a $25,000 grant to honor her commitment to prevent violence and promote peace.

Sally Lieber is a committed and passionate state and regional leader who uses her elected positions to offer hope and opportunity to all Californians. As a city councilwoman, mayor and now as a member of the State Assembly, she has worked to address community needs and increase the economic well-being and quality of life of working families and the poor. Her work has resulted in numerous awards and recognition from senior, labor, environmental, disability, and women’s organizations.

Sally was first elected to the State Assembly in 2002, where she became the Assembly’s Assistant Speaker pro Tempore and the only woman to serve as an officer of the Assembly in her first term. In September 2006 Sally was elevated to Speaker pro Tempore, only the third woman to be sworn-in to this office since 1849. As Speaker pro Tempore, Sally plays a key role in the development and passage of legislation and presides over Assembly floor sessions. Sally’s legislative priorities include increasing educational and economic opportunity, improving public health, protecting the environment, and increasing social justice. She is well-known for authoring laws to increase California’s minimum wage, make human trafficking a crime, reduce air pollution, protect vulnerable seniors and protect the rights of the developmentally disabled. Sally’s legislation has included a number of bills that were ‘first of their kind’ in the nation. These bills deal with subjects as diverse as women’s healthcare and victims’ rights.

Sally represents the 22nd District, considered the ‘Heart of Silicon Valley,’ where she lives with her husband David. They are proud to be active in neighborhood and community activities, enjoy hiking and windsurfing and take seriously their role as pet guardians for a politically astute black-and-white cat.

Daniel Macallair is the Executive Director and a co-founder of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. His expertise is in the development and analysis of correctional policy for youth and adult offenders. He has implemented model programs throughout the country. In the past ten years his programs have received national recognition and were cited as exemplary models by the United States Department of Justice and Harvard University's Innovations in American Government program.

Dan's research and publications have appeared in such journals as the Stanford Law and Policy Review, Journal of Crime and Delinquency, Youth and Society, Journal of Juvenile Law, and the Western Criminology Review. His studies and commentary are often cited in national news outlets. He is also serving as coeditor with Randall Shelden in the upcoming book Juvenile Justice in America: Problems and Prospects. He teaches in the Criminal Justice Program at San Francisco State University and is an invited speaker and trainer at conferences and seminars throughout the country.

Dan will participate on the Little Hoover Commission's advisory committee as the Commission begins its examination of California's sentencing policies. The Commission will review sentencing reform as an important element guiding correctional policies like incarceration and parole. The goal of the Commission is to provide recommendations to policymakers to reform California's sentencing structure to improve public safety and control excessive corrections costs.

Raquel Mariscal is the Senior Consultant for Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Site Support; co-managing JDAI, perhaps the nation’s most ambitious effort to date to demonstrate that jurisdictions can safely reduce reliance on secure juvenile detention. Ms. Mariscal began her formal work in JDAI as the Senior Associate for Juvenile Justice Reform with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, but family obligations called her back to California.

A member of the California Bar, Ms. Mariscal previously worked as the Executive Director of the Criminal Justice Council of Santa Cruz County, California. Her career includes: Administrative Analyst for Santa Cruz County Fourth district supervisor, providing criminal/juvenile defense services through her own law office, and ten years working as an attorney in the Public Defender’s office of Santa Cruz County. Throughout her tenure in these positions, Ms. Mariscal continued to advocate for the development of alternatives to incarceration, equitable court services for all
residents of Santa Cruz County, addressing racial and ethnic disparities, and other justice system reforms. A family farm-worker legacy has shaped her values and commitment to social justice. Ms. Mariscal is the proud mother of a daughter, Xochitlquetzal, and son, Gabriel. Ms. Mariscal holds a BA in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and earned her Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the Monterey College of Law in Monterey, California.

Justin McCrary received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, and will be joining the Boalt/JSP faculty as Assistant Professor of Law in January 2008. He is a labor economist with specific interests in crime, returns to education, judicial affirmative action, and the distribution of income.

Devin Melvin was raised in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point and became a young filmmaker at 16 when he began a digital media internship at Conscious Youth Media Crew.

His most recent film "Straight Pistol Play" offers a glimpse into rarely heard, raw youth voices sharing the pressures young people face growing up in a neighborhood plagued by gun violence. Devin has presented his film to diverse audiences through public screenings, television broadcasts, and film festivals. Devin's passion is to create media that makes viewers think critically about important issues facing the community. Collaborating with Dr. Clem Donahue, the head surgeon for San Francisco General Hospital's Teen Trauma Recovery unit, Devin participates in public presentations about the rising incidence of gun violence in our city streets.

Devin graduated from Downtown High School in 2007 and is looking forward to going to college and getting more involved in public policy-making.

Solomon Moore is a national criminal justice correspondent for the New York Times based in Los Angeles. He reports on prisons, parole and probation, crime trends, law enforcement policy, and juvenile justice in California, North Carolina, Texas, and Arizona.

Prior to joining the New York Times in June, Solomon was a Los Angeles Times reporter for eleven years and was most recently assigned to the Los Angeles Times Baghdad Bureau for eighteen months to report on the conflict in Iraq. Solomon focused on security issues including the rise of sectarian violence, U.S. military tactics, Iraqi institution building and culture, and the impact the war was having on U.S. personnel stationed there and the Iraqi populace. Solomon was among a team of three reporters assigned to cover Iraq who received a 2006 Overseas Press Club Award for International Reporting. The team was also a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

While at the Los Angeles Times, Solomon also filed stories from more than a dozen nations in Africa, Israel, Jordan, and Poland and covered regional Southern California stories including immigration, race relations, public education, crime, and politics. Solomon lives in West Los Angeles with his wife of twelve years and two children, ages 10 and 11.

Erin Murphy joined the Boalt Hall School of Law faculty in 2005 from the Public Defender Service (PDS) for the District of Columbia, where she spent three years in the trial division and two years in the appellate division. While at PDS, Murphy represented clients in felony and misdemeanor cases in jury and bench trials, and argued before the D.C. Court of Appeals. She also led a widely watched constitutional challenge to the District of Columbia's firearms laws, and acquired particular expertise in the scientific and legal issues surrounding the admissibility of various types of forensic evidence. Murphy is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where she served as a notes editor for the Harvard Law Review and an oralist for the champion team in the Ames Moot Court competition. She clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Murphy's current research considers procedural and evidentiary questions related to criminal justice and new technologies. Her most recent work is "The New Forensics: Criminal Justice, False Certainty and the Second Generation of Scientific Evidence" in the California Law Journal (forthcoming 2007). Prior publications include "Awaiting the Mikado: Limiting Legislative Discretion to Define Criminal Elements and Sentencing Factors" in the Harvard Law Review (1999). She has also appeared as a guest lecturer at the Georgetown University Law Center. Murphy teaches courses related to criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence.

Nancy Nadel is in her third term as an Oakland City Councilmember. She has been a resident of Oakland for twenty six years. Nancy chairs the Public Works Committee on the City Council. She is a member of the Bay Area Governments Executive Committee, Regional Planning Committee, and chairs the Earthquake Hazards Outreach Review Committee. She chairs the Re-entry Steering Committee, a project funded to help reintegrate previously incarcerated people after release from prison. She is an Executive Board member of Oakland Community Action Agency whose charge is to help lift Oaklanders out of poverty. Nancy serves on the advisory committee for Dreamcatcher, a program to house and counsel homeless youth under 18 years of age, and if a founding member of the ABAG regional committee on homelessness. She is a strong advocate for integrating incomes in all neighborhoods.

Nancy works extensively on violence prevention and obstacles to employment. She spearheaded an effort to get a measure on the ballot to fund violence prevention and enforcement programs. Currently she is also working on several initiatives to address violence and public safety: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, expanding Adult Literacy services and opening a new teen center in Oakland.

Nancy has a BFA from Alfred University, a BS in Geology from SF State University and an MS from UC Berkeley in Engineering Geoscience. Prior to joining the City Council she worked as a teacher, an artist, a geophysicist, a small business owner and an environmental engineer with the US EPA. Nancy is an avid gardener, artist, tricyclist, chocolatier and kayaker. She is a widow and has one daughter, 26, who has a Masters degree in Education Policy from UC Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy.

David Onek is the founding Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and a Lecturer in Residence at Boalt Hall School of Law. Previously, he served as Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice in San Francisco. In that capacity, Onek led numerous criminal justice policy initiatives for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Prior to joining the Mayor's Office, Onek served as a Senior Program Associate at the W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity in San Francisco, where he worked to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system in ten sites throughout the country. Following graduation from Stanford Law School in 1999, Onek received a Skadden Fellowship to work as a Staff Attorney at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco. Before attending law school, Onek was a Research Associate at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), where he researched and developed model juvenile justice programs and systems nationwide.

Onek’s publications include "Reducing Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Seattle: The W. Haywood Burns Institute Approach" (with Bell and Finley) in No Turning Back: Promising Approaches to Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities Affecting Youth of Color in the Justice System (2005); "What Works with Juvenile Offenders? A Review of 'Graduated Sanction' Programs" (with Krisberg and Currie) in Community Corrections: Probation, Parole and Intermediate Sanctions (1998); and Pairing College Students with Delinquents: The Missouri Intensive Case Monitoring Program (1994).

Barbara Owen is a nationally-known expert in the areas of girls, women and crime, women-centered policy and women’s prison culture. A Professor of Criminology at California State University, Fresno, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 1984. Prior to returning to academia, Dr. Owen was a Senior Researcher with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She has provided training for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) in such areas as operational practice and agency planning for women offenders, staff sexual misconduct, women and community
corrections, and improving health care for women offenders.

Barbara Owen is the author of twenty articles and chapters, numerous technical reports and two books, including In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women’s Prison (SUNY Press, 1998). At present, she is writing a book examining in-prison drug treatment for women. Along with Barbara Bloom and Stephanie Covington, she has co-authored the report, Gender-Responsive Strategies: Research, Practice, and Guiding Principles for Women Offenders (2003), available on the NIC website. In 2006, an analysis of women’s recidivism was completed with Elizabeth Deschenes (funded by the National Institute of Justice).

In 2006, she received at $558,000.00 grant from NIJ to investigate the context of sexual assault in women’s prisons and jails. She is also currently working with The Moss Group on the Prison Rape Elimination Act, developing research and training pursuant to the Act and with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in their work on gender-responsive strategies for adult and juvenile female offenders.

Winston A. Peters is the Assistant Public Defender in the Office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender, the oldest and largest such Office in the United States. In this position, he has executive and administrative responsibility for assisting the Public Defender and the Chief Public Defender in the overall administration of the Department, including administrative functions such as Fiscal, Budget, Human Resources and Management Information Systems. Mr. Peters also has direct management oversight responsibilities for the Special Operations Bureau consisting of operational areas such as Juvenile, Mental Health, (including Adult and Juvenile Mental Health and Drug Courts), Civil, Investigations, Appellate and Continuing Education and Training.

Mr. Peters was recently appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to the California Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and he is a former member of the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Workgroup which focused on recommendations for statewide juvenile justice reform. Mr. Peters is the former Chair of the State Commission on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Past Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Judicial Appointments Committee, Past Member of the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and Former Vice-Chair of its Criminal Justice Section.

Mr. Peters is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and was awarded the County of Los Angeles Commendation from the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN), for outstanding service to children. He is a graduate of the University of California Hastings College of the Law and received his Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Julie Posadas Guzman is Co-Executive Director of the newly formed Youth Justice Institute (YJI). Before creating YJI, Julie co-founded the Girls Justice Initiative, a program of the United Way of the Bay Area that focuses on the needs of young women in the California juvenile justice system. She has over fifteen years of experience in developing specialized programs, trainings, protocols, and system reform for youth in the juvenile justice system.
She has also served as the Director of Girls Services with the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department and was a victim advocate with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Guzman has bachelor's degree in Sociology from San Francisco State University and holds a J.D. from New College of California, School of Law.

Liz Ryan is the Campaign Manager at the Campaign for Youth Justice. Liz has twenty years of advocacy campaign experience. Prior to starting The Campaign for Youth Justice, Ms. Ryan served for five years as the Advocacy Director for the Youth Law Center’s Building Blocks for Youth Initiative, a project to reduce the over-incarceration and disparate treatment of children of color in the juvenile justice system. Her work at the Youth Law Center involved campaign advocacy assistance at the national, state and local levels to stop punitive juvenile justice legislation, redirect funding to communities, and increase involvement of the constituencies that were most affected by juvenile justice decision-making.

Ms. Ryan is a founding member of the Justice 4 DC Youth! Coalition. Ms. Ryan previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director to U.S. Senator Thomas R. Carper during his terms as both Delaware’s Governor and in the US House of Representatives. She also served as a lobbyist for the Children’s Defense Fund. She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Justice 4 DC Youth! Coalition and was recently appointed to the Board of the Arlington County Partnership for Children, Youth and Families.

Ms. Ryan holds a B.A. from Dickinson College (Carlysle, PA) and an M.A. from George Washington University (Washington, DC).

Marlene Sanchez was born and raised in the Mission district of San Francisco. Marlene came to the Center for Young Women’s Development (CYWD) at age 15 looking for employment and a way out of the juvenile justice system. She was hired as a community health outreach worker and provided HIV/STD education and harm reduction supplies, and love to hundreds of young women who lived and worked in the underground street economies of San Francisco. Marlene has a passion for working with young women and girls who are involved in the juvenile justice system because of her personal experiences.

In 1999, Marlene was sworn in by the Superior Court of San Francisco as the first “youth” appointed to the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Commission, where she served for five years. She is currently the co-chair of the Community Justice Network for Youth, a national organization of community-based programs that serve youth of color in the juvenile justice system. Marlene provides training to organizations around the county looking to understand and adopt CYWD’s vision, programs, and methodology.

Stephanie Sanchez is a 20 year old who was born and raised in San Francisco. She is of Puerto Rican and Samoan descent. She is very proud of is being the first grandchild out of nineteen in her family to earn a high school diploma, while maintaining a 3.0 grade point average in high school. She is very outgoing, has a great sense of humor and is very open minded.

Some of her interests include dog grooming, graffiti art, and making music. She has been a certified dog groomer for almost four years, doing graffiti art her whole life, and she plays the trumpet and drums. She also loves to dance and play basketball. She has been through a lot at a young age and all the obstacles that she had to overcome have made her stronger, wiser, and the person she is today.

Robert Schwartz co-founded Juvenile Law Center (JLC) in 1975 and has been its executive director since 1982. He has represented dependent and delinquent children in Pennsylvania juvenile and appellate courts; brought class-action litigation over institutional conditions and probation functions; testified in Congress; and spoken in over thirty states on matters related to children and the law. Since 1991, he has been a gubernatorial appointee to Pennsylvania’s state advisory group, which advises the governor on policy and is responsible for the use of federal delinquency prevention funds in the state.

From 1992-98, he was chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, a position he resumed in 2006. In 1995 he helped author the ABA’s report on youth's access to quality lawyers, A Call for Justice. From 1996 to 2006 he was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, and co-edited Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (University of Chicago Press: 2000).

In addition to managing JLC, he is responsible for its MacArthur-funded Models for Change work on juvenile justice reform in Pennsylvania, and for its California Endowment-funded work on health care for delinquent girls in California. Schwartz chairs the Advisory Committee to the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.

Jonathan Simon is a Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law, Faculty Co- Chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. Before joining the Boalt Hall faculty in 2003, Simon was a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1992. Prior to that, he clerked for Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Simon.

Simon teaches courses on criminal law, criminal justice, risk and the law, and socio-legal studies. His scholarship concerns the role of criminal justice and punishment in modern societies, insurance and other contemporary practices of governing risk, and the intellectual history of law and the social sciences. Simon is the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 (1993) and the co-editor of Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility (with
Tom Baker, 2002) and Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism (with Austin Sarat, 2003). His most recent book is, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2007). Simon also serves as co-editor of Punishment & Society and an associate editor of Law & Society Review.

Simon received his J.D. from Boalt Hall and PhD. from the University of California, Berkeley in Jurisprudence and Social Policy.

Lateefah Simon, community activist and former Executive Director of the Center for Young Women’s Development, was named Director of Reentry Programs at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office in 2005. Raised in the economically disadvantaged Fillmore District, Simon has enjoyed national acclaim for her hands on work with young adult offenders. Simon brings more than eleven years of reentry experience on the community level to the District Attorney’s Office.

Simon joined San Francisco’s Center for Young Women’s Development, based in the Mission District, at age 17 and was promoted to Executive Director of the organization two years later. While there, Simon tirelessly worked to improve the lives of low-income and homeless young women who have been incarcerated or lacked educational experiences while managing a staff of twelve, and carrying an annual budget of over 1.5 million. . Simon was named the youngest woman ever to receive the acclaimed MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Fellowship in 2004.

In addition to the MacArthur fellowship, Simon’s work has been recognized by Oprah Magazine, the National Council on Research on Women, National Organization for Women among others. Simon is currently studying at the Mills College School of Public Policy and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Women's Foundation of California and the San Francisco’s Foundation’s Koshland Committee.

David Steinhart is a California attorney and juvenile justice specialist. He is the Director of the Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program, based in Marin County, California. He is the former Policy Director of the National Council on Crime & Delinquency. For more than two decades he has served as an advocate and advisor to California policymakers on juvenile justice reforms and youth service programs He was the principal draftsman of California laws removing children from adult jails, creating homeless youth projects in major California cities and expanding children’s access to mental health care. He assisted state Senate leaders in crafting the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) which, since 2000, has provided more than $100 million per year to counties for juvenile crime prevention programs. In 2004-05 he served on Governor Schwarzenegger’s Juvenile Justice Working Group, advising on the design of a new state-local juvenile justice continuum.

In 2006 he was appointed by the state Senate to the State Juvenile Justice Commission. In 2007 he worked closely with state and county policymakers on SB 81, the historic juvenile justice reform measure that will shift nearly one-half of the state committed youth population to county control. He is the author of multiple articles, reports and books on subjects ranging from detention risk assessment to the children of incarcerated parents. He continues a body of national work with the Annie E. Casey Foundation as an advisor to sites in twenty states on detention risk assessment and alternatives to secure detention.

James Sterngold has spent twenty seven years as an author, journalist, foreign correspondent, and radio show host and commentator. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Mother Jones magazine, and it has been cited in numerous magazine articles and books, including Philip Roth’s novel, “Sabbath’s Theater,” winner of the National Book Award. Mr. Sterngold has won numerous awards from The New York Times.

James Sterngold has been the National Affairs Correspondent and Los Angeles Bureau Chief for the San Francisco Chronicle since August 2002. He has written extensively on national security, the war in Iraq, and nuclear weapons policy. He also wrote a series of in-depth articles on the crisis in California’s prison system.

Mr. Sterngold has a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University and received a Bachelors degree, cum laude, in Philosophy and Social Anthropology from Middlebury College, where he was an Independent Scholar. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mireya Navarro, a correspondent with the New York Times, and his two children.

Francisco A. Villarruel is the Acting director of the Julían Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University; as well as the University Outreach and Engagement Senior Fellow and Professor of Family and Child Ecology at Michigan State University.

Villarruel's research focus is generalized into three areas: Latino youth and families, positive youth development, and youth policy/juvenile justice. Villarruel has published fifty journal articles and book chapters, edited six books, and coauthored five state or national policy reports. He is co-author of the nation’s first report that focuses on analysis of disproportionate and disparate treatment of Latino and Latina youth by the U.S. justice system. The report, entitled ¿Dónde Está la Justicia? A Call to Action on Behalf of Latino and Latina Youth in the U.S. Justice System, was published by the Building Blocks for Youth initiative and has received national and international visibility. Villarruel also authored the book Lost Opportunities: The reality of Latinos in the US Criminal Justice System, which is available from the National Council of La Raza.

Villarruel has received numerous awards and distinctions during his career, including a W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Fellowship, an MSU-Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship, the HACU-ETS Policy Fellowship, and the 1996 MSU Teacher-Scholar Award for dedication and skill in teaching and scholarly promise.

Michael S. Wald is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law emeritus at Stanford Law School. Wald, who specializes in children and family policy, joined the Stanford faculty in 1967. Wald's current scholarly research is focused on youth having difficulty making a successful transition to adulthood. He also does research on the treatment of children in the legal system and issues related to family policy. He has written extensively about the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. He also has drafted major federal and state legislation regarding child
welfare.

Wald has held a number of positions outside the University. In 1996-97, he was Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Human Services. From 1993 through 1995, he was Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. From 2001-03, he served as Senior Advisor to the President of the Hewlett Foundation.

Wald is currently Co-Chair of The Mayor’s Task Force on Transitional Youth in San Francisco. He serves on the board of directors of Legal Services for Children in San Francisco and the Chapin Hall Children’s Center at the University of Chicago. He also is Chairman of the Faculty Scholars Committee of the W.T. Grant Foundation.

Bernard E. Warner was appointed Chief Deputy Secretary-Division of Juvenile Justice for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on July 1, 2005. Before this appointment, Warner served as Assistant Secretary for Probation for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. Warner is responsible for the oversight and management of more than 6,800 youthful offenders in California juvenile justice operations. This includes eight secure juvenile justice facilities, two conservation camps, and juvenile parole services. The Division
employs more than 3,800 with an annual budget of more than $400 million.

From 2000 through 2002, Warner served as Assistant Director for Community Corrections for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. He was responsible for planning, organizing and directing the agency’s community programs for juvenile offenders. He also served as a member of the leadership team in developing the agency mission, vision and values best suited to reduce delinquent behavior and enhance public safety.

Warner received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Administration of Justice from Southern Illinois University. He has attended Harvard School of Negotiation’s Public Dispute Training, Duke University’s Governor’s Center, and the University of Washington’s Executive Management Program.

Charles Weisselberg is a Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law and Faculty Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. He served as the founding director of the Center for Clinical Education, Boalt's in-house clinical program, which he developed and administered from 1998 to 2006. Weisselberg teaches criminal procedure, criminal law and related courses.

After graduating from University of Chicago law school, Weisselberg practiced with a private law firm, taught in the clinical program at his alma mater, and served as a trial attorney with Federal Defenders of San Diego Inc. He taught at the University of Southern California Law School for 11 years, where he litigated post-conviction, civil rights, and immigration cases with his students and colleagues. Weisselberg and his students have represented clients in cases before numerous federal district courts, as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Circuits; and state courts in California, Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, and Louisiana.

Weisselberg's research focuses primarily on criminal procedure, immigration law, and clinical legal education. He is active in legal education groups, bar associations, and criminal justice organizations. Weisselberg is a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Clinical Legal Education. He has lectured at professional gatherings in the United States and abroad on topics ranging from graduate professional legal education to police interrogation. He regularly consults with pro bono counsel in trial and appellate cases, and participates in law reform efforts in California and other parts of the United States.

Roscoe Wilson is the Vice President of Program Development and Marketing for the Associated Marine Institutes (AMI). AMI is a non-profit organization founded in 1967, to help delinquent youth by providing alternative education and behavior modification treatment services through a Unified Approach Concept that addresses the individual needs of girls and boys by way of Education, Mental Health, and Behavior Modification.

The programs are usually in marine and/or wilderness settings. Over 40,000 troubled teenagers have attended the AMI Programs. The company contracts with the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, as well as, Juvenile Justice Agencies in Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Louisiana, Florida and Pennsylvania. Mr. Wilson has served AMI since 1988 in a variety of capacities. He currently oversees the growth and implementation of new programs ranging from young offenders, programs specifically for females and serious violent offenders. He also serves as AMI’s
legislative/governmental liaison.

Roscoe has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Physical Education from Benedict College. He is a former College All-American basketball player. He played professional basketball in Europe from 1974-1984, where he also started his graduate study in Global Human Behavior and Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Stockholm. Upon his retirement from European professional basketball, he coached at the college-level for four years before starting with the Associated Marine Institute. He resides in Columbia with his wife Eva, son Renaldo, and daughter
Aja. He enjoys hunting, horseback riding, weight lifting, and church related activities.

Jason Ziedenberg, Executive Director of the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), is a criminal justice researcher, writer, analyst, and advocate for ending society’s reliance on incarceration. He is the co-founder the Justice Policy Institute, one of the nation’s leading prison reform think tanks, and has served as the organization’s Director of Policy and Research and as Associate Director. His research and policy work on juvenile and criminal justice policy is frequently used by nonprofits, foundations, think tanks, law enforcement, community organizations, government, and the media. He is the recipient of two Media Advocacy Awards from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for exceptional research and communications work in support of prison reform.

Ziedenberg has served on the California Governor’s Juvenile Justice Reform Working Group and the Mayor of Washington DC's transition team on corrections. He has represented JPI’s research and analysis before the U.S. Congress, state legislators, city and county councils, and various national and state commissions considering juvenile and criminal justice reform. Ziedenberg has a Master in Science from the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.

Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law. Previously, he was a member of the University of Chicago law faculty as Llewellyn Professor of Law and director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1985 as director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute.

Zimring's major fields of interest are criminal justice and family law, with special emphasis on the use of empirical research to inform legal policy. He is best known for his studies of the determinants of the death rate from violent attacks; the impact of pretrial diversion from the criminal justice system; and criminal sanctions.

Zimring is the author or co-author of many books on topics including deterrence, the changing legal world of adolescence, capital punishment, the scale of imprisonment, and drug control. Recent books include The Great American Crime Decline (2006), The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (2003) and American Youth Violence (1998), and Crime is Not the Problem: Violence in America (with Hawkins, 1997). He is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 1998, he has been an expert panel member for the U.S. Department of Education Panel on Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools and an advisory member for the National Research Council Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Intervention and Control.