Speaker Biographies

Keynote Speakers:

  • Paul Butler, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Jack Levin, Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Co-Director of the Center on Violence and Conflict, Northeastern University

Featured Speakers:

  • S. Leo Chiang, Documentary Filmmaker and Lecturer in Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
  • Terri Givens, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
  • Hon. Steven Gonzalez, Justice, Washington State Supreme Court
  • Ryan Haygood, Director of Political Participation, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
  • Hon. Richard Jones, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
  • Hon. Richard Paez, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Barbara Perry, Professor and Associate Dean of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
  • Hon. Rosanna Peterson, Chief Judge, U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
  • Kenneth Stern, Director on Antisemitism and Extremism, American Jewish Committee
  • Frank Straub, Chief, Spokane Police Department
  • Robert L. Tsai, Professor, American University Washington College of Law