Change It Up! 2024 Table Topics and Hosts

Criminal Legal System: Death Penalty & Actual Innocence

• Jim Marcus, Clinical Professor, Capital Punishment Clinic
• Thea Posel, Clinical Professor, Capital Punishment Clinic
• Charlie Press, Clinical Professor, Actual Innocence Clinic

Criminal Legal System: Public Defense

• Karly Jo Dixon, Staff Attorney, Travis County Public Defender Office
• Mary Murphy, Public Interest/Public Defense Counselor, Career Services Office
• Cristina Ramirez, Fellow, Associate Director, Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project, Rapoport Center

Criminal Legal System: Reentry & Collateral Consequences

• Helen Gaebler, Senior Research Attorney, Justice Center
• Caroline Solis, Director of Holistic Practice, Travis County Public Defender Office

Disability Rights

• Tom Ruffner, Associate Judge, Travis County Probate Court
• Lucy Wood, Clinical Professor, Disability Rights Clinic
• Kiah DeBolt, Special Projects Attorney, Disability Rights Texas

Environmental Justice

• Kelly Haragan, Clinical Professor, Environmental Clinic
• Erin Gaines, Clinical Professor, Environmental Clinic

Housing Justice

• Eva Sikes, Staff Attorney, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
• Ruthie Goldstein, Staff Attorney, Housing Team, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid

Immigration

• Denise Gilman, Clinical Professor, Immigration Clinic
• Elissa Steglich, Clinical Professor, Immigration Clinic

International Human Rights

• Cooper Christiancy, Postgraduate Fellow, Rapoport Center
• Karen Engle, Co-Director, Rapoport Center

Labor & Employment

• Aaron Johnson, Attorney, Fair Labor Law
• Chris Willett, Co-Director, Transnational Works Rights Clinic

LGBTQ Justice

• Cristian Sanchez, Economic Justice Director, Texas Immigration Law Council

Nonlitigation Practice Areas: Policy, Community Advocacy, & Transactional Law

• Frances Martinez, Clinical Professor, Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic
• Heather Way, Clinical Professor, Housing Policy Clinic
• Paige Duggins-Clay, Chief Legal Analyst, Intercultural Development Research Association

Private Practice & Plaintiff-Side Litigation

• Austin Kaplan, Attorney, Kaplan Law Firm
• Tanner Scheef, Associate Attorney, Kaplan Law Firm

Civil Rights & Discrimination

• Lia Sifuentes Davis, Clinical Professor, Civil Rights Clinic
• Lisa Eskow, Clinical Professor, Supreme Court Clinic

Religious Liberties & Free Speech

• Steven Collis, Clinical Professor, Law & Religion Clinic

Reproductive Justice

• Blake Rocap, Senior Fellow, Director, Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project, Rapoport Center
• Liz Sepper, Professor, Texas Law

Voting Rights

• Mimi Marziani, Attorney, Marziani, Stevens, & Gonzalez PLLC