Trauma-Informed Lawyering

10/26
Add to Calendar 2018-10-26 12:15:00 2018-10-26 13:30:00 Trauma-Informed Lawyering Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/trauma-informed-lawyering - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public

Please join Defenders, PILS, ACLU, and the Domestic and Sexual Violence Project in Room V on October 26th for a panel discussion about how best to provide legal representation for traumatized, marginalized, and incarcerated people. Snail Thai will be provided. This panel will be moderated by Professor Buss and panelists will include:

Michelle Geller, MSW, the law school's clinical social worker. She primarily works with clients in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinic.

Julian Thomas, MSW and PhD candidate, who lectures about issues of race and incarceration at the University of Chicago School of Social Work Administration and works with formerly incarcerated people.

Dr. Gina Fedock, an assistant professor at the School of Social Work Administration who primarily studies the experiences of incarcerated women.

Dr. Matt Epperson, an associate professor at the School of Social Work Administration who focusses on criminal justice policy and mental health.