May 11th Sessions
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You are invited to a data gardening workshop designed for the beginning data gardener! We'll share how to get started, provide tips to help identify the weeds (bad data), and provide tools to nurture data flowers. Why work in the data garden? Using data can help organizations make more informed decisions and help them better understand their clients. Participants will walk away with a spreadsheet template, a colorful infographic to print and hang in their garden, links to Canva templates, and a list of free (or almost free) resources for future reference. Let's see what we can grow together!
- By the end of this session, the audience will be able to identify sources of data that may be ripe for use.
- By the end of this session, the audience will be able to evaluate historical data and determine its potential for use.
- By the end of this session, the audience will be able to use the provided templates to effectively display data
You are invited to a data gardening workshop designed for the beginning data gardener! We'll share how to get started, provide tips to help identify the weeds (bad data), and provide tools to nurture data flowers. Why work in the data garden? Using data can help organizations make more informed decisions and help them better understand their clients. Participants will walk away with a spreadsheet template, a colorful infographic to print and hang in their garden, links to Canva templates, and a list of free (or almost free) resources for future reference. Let's see what we can grow together!
- By the end of this session, the audience will be able to identify sources of data that may be ripe for use.
- By the end of this session, the audience will be able to evaluate historical data and determine its potential for use.
- By the end of this session, the audience will be able to use the provided templates to effectively display data
Shellie Reid
Shellie Reid is the Manager of the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (LSNTAP). During law school, Shellie sought opportunities to gain experience beyond the normal law school path. As an ATJ Tech Fellow, Shellie learned of the many career options available to students who love legal and embrace technology. As a founding member of the Delta Model Lawyer research group, Shellie helped formulate and test a competency model for lawyers. Shellie gained experience working as a law clerk for a legal aid organization, a coordinator for a national non-profit, and as a student in the Center for Law, Technology & Innovation. Before law school, Shellie was a recognized subject matter expert for software used by local governments across the country. Shellie’s writing has been featured in Legal Business World, ABA’s Law Practice Today, and on the blog Frontier of the Law. Shellie is a strong believer in the benefits of building a personal brand and network through social media. Her personal story was so profoundly impacted by the opportunities she found through social media that she funds a social media challenge at Michigan State University College of Law each year.
Susan Bales, MS
Data & Program Analyst
Michigan Legal Help / Michigan Advocacy Program
Susan (Vu Tran) Bales works as the Data & Program Analyst at Michigan Legal Help (MLH); MichiganLegalHelp.org is where people can access resources and information to handle their legal issues. Before joining MLH, Susan spent years collecting and reporting data about non-human animals and later shifted her focus to helping people. Susan earned a Master of Science in Biology, buried herself in academia for over a decade to co-author manuscripts and evaluate human service programs. She also discovered a passion for creating data graphics and has gratefully found a space on an interdisciplinary team to integrate the latter while leading the data and analysis efforts at MLH.-
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Legal Aid clients often face staggering fines and fees - for everything from a traffic ticket to a felony conviction - for themselves or a loved one. But few legal aid organizations help their clients resolve court debt or help advocates reform fines and fees policies and practices. This session will feature legal aid lawyers from different states who do both.
Legal Aid clients often face staggering fines and fees - for everything from a traffic ticket to a felony conviction - for themselves or a loved one. But few legal aid organizations help their clients resolve court debt or help advocates reform fines and fees policies and practices. This session will feature legal aid lawyers from different states who do both.
Anna Odegaard, MPP, MA
Senior Advocacy and Campaign Strategist - Midwest
Fines and Fees Justice Center
Anna Odegaard is a Senior Advocacy and Campaigns Strategist for the Fines and Fees Justice Center. She leads FFJC’s work in Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio and supports reform throughout the region. Prior to joining FFJC, Anna spent nearly a decade at the Minnesota Asset Building Coalition, leading MABC’s advocacy campaigns for state-level policies that support asset building opportunities, reduce barriers to economic mobility, and advance racial equity. Before joining MABC, she worked as a Policy Analyst for the Service Employees International Union, helping develop equitable and inclusive state policies for implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Earlier in her career, Anna led the Domestic Abuse Response Team in Fridley, Minnesota, supporting domestic abuse survivors on their path to safety. Anna received a Master of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Political Science and Rhetoric from Drake University. She lives in Saint Paul, MN with her partner and two children..jpg "Speaker image")
Rubina Mustafa
Rubina S. Mustafa is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Detroit Justice Center. She helps clients overcome barriers created by incarceration, chronic poverty, and homelessness. She has over twenty-nine years of legal experience, and she represents clients in driver’s license and family law matters. She trains and leads the volunteer attorneys for the Road to Restoration Clinics, which have successfully helped over 7000 Michigan residents with driver’s license issues. Before DJC, Rubina worked with the Michigan Children’s Law Center in Wayne County, representing children in the Juvenile Court. She also was a Staff Attorney at the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy, the first multidisciplinary legal aid practice focused on reducing the number of children in foster care. Rubina also worked with child welfare specialty court dockets and court improvement task forces. Before that, Rubina was proud to serve as an Assistant Defender with the State Appellate Defender, advocating for over 300 clients on appeal of their criminal convictions and sentences.
Ed Wunch
Justin Small, JD
EJW Fellow/Staff Attorney
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
Justin Small is an Equal Justice Works Fellow & staff attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. As part of the Clean Slate Initiatives criminal reentry practice group, Justin's fellowship centers on providing citation and infraction level representation to low income individuals. His traffic ticket clinic provides assistance with court-debt mitigation and addresses collateral consequences like driver's license suspensions. Justin is 2022 graduate of Loyola Law School..-
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Among the learnings of right to counsel implementation and evaluation is that the volume of evictions in the court system makes it extremely difficult to realize justice in a sustainable manner. We will discuss ideas to develop pre-litigation systems to avoid court and realize justice.
- Identify and understand the costs (financial and otherwise) of eviction filings from the perspective of multiple stakeholders.
- Understand the pre-filing eviction landscape and the circumstances faced by tenants and landlords.
- Identify the evidence-based strategies that can be used to develop pre-filing eviction response and resolution leveraging current community assets and legal resources in a collaborative setting, as well as the barriers and challenges to design, development, implementation and evaluation.
Among the learnings of right to counsel implementation and evaluation is that the volume of evictions in the court system makes it extremely difficult to realize justice in a sustainable manner. We will discuss ideas to develop pre-litigation systems to avoid court and realize justice.
- Identify and understand the costs (financial and otherwise) of eviction filings from the perspective of multiple stakeholders.
- Understand the pre-filing eviction landscape and the circumstances faced by tenants and landlords.
- Identify the evidence-based strategies that can be used to develop pre-filing eviction response and resolution leveraging current community assets and legal resources in a collaborative setting, as well as the barriers and challenges to design, development, implementation and evaluation.
Neil Steinkamp
Managing Director
Stout
Neil Steinkamp is a well-recognized expert and consultant on a broad range of strategic, organizational, and financial issues to government, business, court and community leaders. He has 20 years of experience providing transformative change strategies; complex structured and unstructured data analysis and assessment; multistakeholder collaboration and coordination; the development of pathways to compliance and iterative change strategies; financial and fiscal impact analyses; and other complex topics. His work often includes assessments of data reporting, data collection processes, the interpretation or understanding of structured and unstructured data, the review of documents and databases, the development of iterative process improvement strategies, and the creation of data monitoring platforms to facilitate sustained incremental change toward aspirational objectives. He has worked extensively to help resolve sophisticated problems involving large-scale industry and social issues. His unique approach to complex situations is centered on systemic approaches to integrating the voices and experiences of the public with the experience and expertise of government, industry, advocates, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders. He has worked with over 75 non-profit and legal aid organizations as an independent expert or consultant on matters including financial analyses related to eviction prevention, diversion and response including analyses of court docket data for eviction cases in cities and counties throughout the country. His work requires both an in-depth understanding of court records (and their interpretation and limitations) as well as feedback and insight from a broad array of stakeholders including landlords, counsel for landlords, tenants, counsel for tenants, tenant advocates and organizers, courts, community-based organizations, government agencies responding to housing instability and others. The feedback from these stakeholders has proven to be an essential element of understanding the complexity and nuances of low-income rental housing ecosystems and the role and potential impact various interventions and resources can have for both landlords and tenants.
Colleen Cotter
Barbara Reitzloff
Jeff Patterson
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