Empowering Young People. Cathy Sakimura has spent her entire professional life empowering young people, first as a youth organizer, then as the Deputy Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and now as Executive Director of Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. Cathy has dedicated her life to serving children and families. She describes how each of us can make a difference in a child’s life, including donating money to LSC because it recently lost federal funding to serve immigrant children in detention.
Giving Back! We The Action has a simple premise – lawyers have the power to do good. The organization started in 2017 to help connect lawyers with pro bono causes, from immigration and domestic violence representation to non-profit governance and tax issues, from voting rights to copyright. Anna Chu, the Executive Director, describes how nimble organization started the Federal Workers Defense Network to provide pro bono support for the thousands of federal workers who were fired from their positions in violation of law and without legal process.
Protecting and Providing Due Process
Erika Pinheiro serves as the Executive Director of Al Otro Lado providing holistic legal and humanitarian support to refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the US and Tijuana through a multidisciplinary, client-centered, harm reduction-based practice. The organization provides direct, free, legal services on both sides of the US-Mexico border and beyond through zealous individual representation, medical-legal partnerships, and impact litigation to protect the rights of immigrants and asylum-seekers.
Climate Rights International was founded by Executive Director Brad Adams. Brad and CRI believe that progress on climate change cannot succeed without protecting human rights – and the fight for human rights cannot succeed without protecting our planet against climate change. CRI works in partnership with local and international groups, activists, and affected communities to demand justice and accountability from powerful interests.
No Democracy Last Forever! Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, author of No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, asks the provocative question - is it time to consider drafting a new constitution? Is it absurd to think that a document drafted in the 18th Century can still protect democracy and individual rights in the 21st Century? Join the SideBar discussion about challenges under the constitution to protect free speech, a democratic electoral system, diversity in higher education, and the status of the Equal Rights Amendment.
As nationally recognized civility experts, Tomas Spath and Cassandra Dahnke, authors of Reclaiming Civility in the Public Square and cofounders of the Institute for Civility, believe that Civility is claiming and caring for one’s identity, needs, and beliefs without degrading someone else’s in the process. Civility is about disagreeing without disrespect, seeking common ground as a starting point for dialogue about differences, understanding biases and personal preconceptions, and teaching others to do the same.
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