Ann E. Tweedy joined the faculty of University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law as an Associate Professor in January 2020. She is a noted scholar on tribal civil rights and tribal jurisdiction, as well as on bisexuality and the law. Before coming to USD she served as an in-house attorney for Muckleshoot Tribe […]

Andrew Henning serves a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division-Torts Branch of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC. Previously, Andrew served an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas where he handled cases related to child exploitation, violent crime, and police […]

Keyna Smith is the Director of Anti-Human Trafficking and Advocacy at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. As a professional speaker, she trains on the identification, awareness, and prevention of human trafficking. She conducts assessments on at-risk youths, advocates, and connects survivors of sex and labor trafficking to community resources throughout Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula […]

Maya Simek (she/her/hers) serves as a Clinical Law Professor and Director of Case Western Reserve’s Health & Human Trafficking Law Clinic. Ms. Simek further serves as the Legal Director at Equality Ohio, where she developed and is now supervising a state-wide legal clinic for the lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer (LGBTQ+) community. Ms. Simek focuses […]

Nancy Polikoff is Professor Emerita of Law at American University Washington College of Law and has been Visiting McDonald/Wright Chair of Law at UCLA School of Law and Faculty Chair of the Williams Institute, a national think tank on sexual orientation law and public policy. She began her career as a family law practitioner with the […]

Lina G. Del Plato (she/her) is a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society Juvenile Rights Practice (JRP) since 2006 where she represents children who are the subject of neglect and abuse proceedings. The daughter of immigrants, and the first in her family to complete a law degree, she is also a member of the […]

Shawn Meerkamper uses they pronouns and is the senior staff attorney at Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Shawn believes in police and prison abolition and also believes in harm reduction work to lessen the torture trans women experience while incarcerated. As a lawyer at TLC, Shawn has […]

Brad Sears, J.D., is the David Sanders Distinguished Scholar of Law & Policy at the Williams Institute and the Associate Dean of Public Interest Law at UCLA Law. He was the founding Executive Director of the Williams Institute, which he led from 2001 to 2017. Sears has published a number of research studies, primarily on […]

Catherine Hanssens, Executive Director and Founder of the Center for HIV Law and Policy, has been active in HIV legal and policy issues since 1984. Previously, Hanssens was AIDS Project Director at Lambda Legal, where she led Lambda’s HIV-related litigation and policy work. She also worked with the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, where she […]

Linda Dixon serves as the health law director at the Mississippi Center for Justice, a position she has held since November 2008. Prior to joining the Center, she was the assistant secretary of state for elections for the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office, where she previously held the position of senior attorney and director of […]