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The major goal driving her research has been to understand how economic, organizational, political, cultural and social change interact with communities, organizations and leadership to affect the nature of conflict and violence between and within groups. As a community sociologist she has studied the ability of grassroots organizations to unite local residents around their common goals and to engage them in conflict resolution and social justice initiatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3acaa63a2575207b5cd9bc/1598812839483-VF07IADSL9BY9AYM4OBP/Jay+D.+Blitzman About the Project - Honorable Jay D. Blitzman is the former first justice for the Middlesex Juvenile Court. Prior to his appointment in 1996, he was a founder and the first director of the Youth Advocacy Project (YAP), a community based legal services organization in Roxbury, Mass. In 2000, he was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Judicial Ethics and is a member of the Supreme Judicial Court Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure. He is the chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Juvenile Practice Committee. He has served as a clinical supervisor for programs at Harvard and Boston College Law Schools. He teaches Juvenile Courts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3acaa63a2575207b5cd9bc/b6e31b3f-b69b-48f4-8fde-5f225bc6c96d/frankel-800-300x300.jpg About the Project - Renay Frankel is the managing director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC). From 2017-2023, Renay served as the director for public interest and government with Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Co-op and Career Development. As the leader of the public interest team, Renay oversaw professional development programming and career advising for law students pursuing internships and post-graduate jobs in the public sector. Renay also taught Northeastern’s Public Service Externship Course, which combined coursework with part-time externship placements in government agencies or non-profit organizations. She began public interest career advising three years earlier, as the assistant director of Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising. Prior to working in career services, Renay practiced law for eight years in the public sector. She started her legal career as a public defender in Roxbury, Mass., with the Committee for Public Counsel Services and also worked as a housing attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services. In 2009, she was the recipient of a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, which led to the creation of a unique position at the Committee for Public Counsel Services to expand the public defender agency’s holistic defense practice and address clients’ civil legal issues. In this role, she provided training and advice to court-appointed criminal defense attorneys in Massachusetts regarding the civil consequences of criminal cases. She also facilitated collaboration between the public defender agency, civil legal services providers and community partners in order to support public defender clients. Renay is a 2006 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and received her BA from Skidmore College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3acaa63a2575207b5cd9bc/1598812741378-GKJJC1GKRYB49SWJGUYZ/Lucy+A.+Williams About the Project - Professor Lucy A. Williams, Principal Investigator Professor Williams is a Professor at the School of Law as well as Faculty Director for the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration. Professor Williams is an internationally recognized authority on welfare law and low-wage labor. In 2018, she was selected for a Fulbright Specialist award. In recent years Professor Williams has expanded her work to address issues of global poverty and the justiciability of social and economic rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3acaa63a2575207b5cd9bc/1602790338129-2G74V1WVRNS3M6NHX31Q/spacer.png About the Project Matt Cregor, ‎Staff Attorney, ‎Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee. Emeritus Professor Peter Enrich is a professor emeritus at Northeastern University School of Law. Professor Enrich is a leading authority on state and local government and state tax policy, he frequently serves as an advisor to state and local governments and to advocacy groups interested in state and local fiscal policy. His areas of research and expertise include state taxation of businesses, tax equity, relationships between different levels of government and funding of public education. He also served two terms as an elected selectman in Lexington, Massachusetts, and he continues to play an active role in Massachusetts progressive politics and policy advocacy. Cristina F. Freitas, partner, Freitas & Freitas, LLP. Cristina F. Freitas has served as both a staff attorney at the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) and in private practice. Her practice concentrates on holistically representing indigent parents, kids, and young adults in complex criminal and civil trial and appellate cases. She is the co-chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association Juvenile and Child Welfare Section, co-chair of the Middlesex Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Dually-Involved Youth Subcommittee, a steering committee member of the CPCS CAFL Racial Justice Task Force, a member of the CPCS Racial Injustice Litigation Working Group, member of the Juvenile Defenders Dismantling Racism (JDDR) education advocacy committee, and a member of the Middlesex Defense Attorneys Inc. (MDA). She has a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law and a Master of Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed a fellowship in the Social Justice Program at Northeastern University School of Law before founding Freitas & Freitas, LLP with her twin sister, Debbie Freitas. Debbie F. Freitas, partner, Freitas & Freitas, LLP. After a short time as a staff attorney at the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), Debbie F. Freitas returned to private practice at Freitas & Freitas, LLP. Her work focuses on holistically representing indigent parents, kids, and young adults in complex criminal and civil trial and appellate cases. She is the co-chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association Juvenile and Child Welfare Section, co-chair of the Middlesex Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Dually-Involved Youth Subcommittee, a steering committee member of the CPCS CAFL Racial Justice Task Force, a member of the CPCS Racial Injustice Litigation Working Group, a member of the Juvenile Defenders Dismantling Racism (JDDR) education advocacy committee, and a member of the Middlesex Defense Attorneys Inc. (MDA). She has a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law and a Master of Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed a fellowship in the Social Justice Program at Northeastern University School of Law before founding Freitas & Freitas, LLP, with her twin sister, Cristina Freitas. Marisol Garcia, Managing Attorney/Director of Mental Health Advocacy Program for Kids (MHAP for Kids), Health Law Advocates. Professor Stefanie (Stevie) Leahy is a professor in the Legal Practice Skills program and an active member of the national legal writing community. Prior to joining Suffolk in July of 2023, Professor Leahy was an assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Law, teaching courses that include Legal Skills in Social Context as well as Writing For Litigation. Professor Leahy also served as the Resident Fellow for the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, working on issues related to juvenile sentencing and the cradle to prison pipeline. She has presented and published on a diverse array of issues, including fostering equity and inclusion in the classroom and student wellbeing, in addition to juvenile sentencing and related Supreme Court decisions. Her national service includes chairing the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Committee on Leadership and Development, which earned her an Outstanding Service Award in 2021. Prior to starting her teaching career, Professor Leahy was an attorney with Goodwin Procter, Latham & Watkins, and Aeton Law Partners. She earned a BA from Villanova University and her JD from Pepperdine Law School (magna cum laude). Daniel J. Losen, Director, Center for Civil Rights Remedies, an initiative at the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP) at University of California, Los Angeles. Kate Lowenstein, Multisystem Youth Project Director, Citizens for Juvenile Justice. Professor Liliana Mangiafico is an adjunct teaching professor at the School of Law. After obtaining her JD from Northeastern University School of Law in 2001, she briefly practiced with Greater Boston Legal Services’ family law unit, and then joined Advocates, Inc, a nonprofit organization providing services for the disabled and mentally ill. Her work was recognized in 2011 when she was named among the “Top Women of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Professor Susan Maze-Rothstein is a co-director of the Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University — a regional/national/international thought-leader in restorative justice policy and practice development. Professor Maze-Rothstein founded and was the board president of Our Restorative Justice, an initiative that diverted youth pre-arraignment to restorative justice practices as an alternative to juvenile delinquency court proceedings. Prior to co-directing the Center for Restorative Justice, Professor Maze-Rothstein was a professor at Northeastern University School of Law where, for two decades, she directed the Legal Skills in Social Context Program and, in 2019, served as an inaugural Principal Investigator for the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project. She co-chairs the Boston Public Schools, Code of Conduct Advisory Council, which persuaded the district’s school committee to revise its Code of Conduct, responsive to 2012 school discipline legislation, Mass. G.L. c. 222, and to include restorative justice practices and other alternatives as a requirement before suspension or expulsion. Professor Maze-Rothstein also co-chairs the Restorative Justice Coalition of MA, that helped to advance and shape Mass. G.L. c. 276B as part of the 2018 Criminal Justice Reform legislation's promotion of the use of restorative justice in the Commonwealth. Sarah Spofford, Staff Attorney, Committee for Public Counsel Services. Noor Toraif. Noor Toraif is doctoral candidate at the School of Social Work at Boston University and a Graduate Fellow at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. She earned her MA in Child Development at Tufts University, specializing in children and families’ programs and policies. Her research interests draw from Critical Legal and Race Theories to understand youth and young adults’ experiences in the US juvenile and criminal justice systems. Noor is currently involved in a number of projects including a project on online racial discourse, a project on parents with intellectual disabilities and the child welfare system, a Youth Participatory Action Research project on health disparities, and a project on child welfare professionals serving youth involved with multiple state agencies or crossing over from the child welfare to juvenile justice systems. This project has additionally benefited substantially from collaborations and research contributions of: Cara Solomon, Executive Director, Everyday Boston Armand Coleman, Program Coordinator for Everyday Boston’s Bridge Project Returned Citizens who shared their stories as part of a collaboration with Everyday Boston’s Bridge Project: Dana Brown Bobby Iacoviello John Jones Amanda Pestana Derrick Sutton Kent Whitlock And the following Northeastern Law Students who contributed research to this project. Emma Benjamin Tiara Bertram Jasmine Brown Kaire Colwell Eve Deveau Katherine Dullea Lucy Ellis Laura Frye Helen Hamady Evan Ma Elaine Marshall Julian Montijo Hakeem Muhammad Siri Nelson Lily Ann Ritter Ulices Rodriguez MacKenzie Speer Alexander Stein Erin Stewart Alissa Weinberger Jen Wilson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3acaa63a2575207b5cd9bc/1602700947677-ZDLZXFYA8GNYYLHF9IUS/Ad_Hirsch_T_120006.rev_-360x360.jpg About the Project - Professor Tad Hirsch, Principal Investigator Tad Hirsch is Professor of Art + Design at Northeastern University, where he conducts research and creative practice at the intersection of design, engineering, and social justice. 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