Change It Up! 2025 Table Topics

Civil Rights & Discrimination (includes Voting Rights) 

• Lisa Eskow, Clinical Professor, Supreme Court Clinic
• Mimi Marziani, Attorney, Marziani, Stevens, & Gonzalez PLLC
• Lia Sifuentes Davis, Clinical Professor, Civil Rights Clinic

Criminal Legal System (includes Public Defense, Capital Punishment, Actual Innocence, Reentry) 

• Karly Jo Dixon, Staff Attorney, Travis County Public Defender Office
• Helen Gaebler, Senior Research Attorney, Justice Center
• Araceli Garcia, Assistant Public Defender, Atascosa Area Public Defender Office
• Andrea Marsh, Director, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
• Cristina Ramirez, Office of Capital and Forensic Writs
• Raoul Schonemann, Clinical Professor, Capital Punishment Clinic

Disability Rights                   

• Kiah DeBolt, Special Projects Attorney, Disability Rights Texas
• Lucy Wood, Clinical Professor, Disability Rights Clinic

Environmental Law & Justice 

• Kelly Haragan, Clinical Professor, Environmental Clinic
• Jamie McClintock, Associate Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center

Family Law (includes Children’s Rights, Parental Rights, Domestic Violence) 

• Lori Duke, Clinical Professor, Children’s Rights Clinic
• Katherine Himaya Lewis, Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Religious Liberties 

• Steven Collis, Clinical Professor, Law & Religion Clinic
• Erin Busby, Clinical Professor, Supreme Court Clinic

Housing & Economic Justice (includes Housing, Labor & Employment) 

• Aaron Johnson, Attorney, Fair Labor Law
• Nelson Mock, Clinical Adjunct Professor, Housing Clinic
• Chris Willett, Co-Director, Transnational Works Rights Clinic

Immigrant’s Rights 

• Denise Gilman, Clinical Professor, Immigration Clinic
• Elissa Steglich, Clinical Professor, Immigration Clinic
• Danny Woodward, Policy Attorney, Texas Civil Rights Project
• Karen Muñoz, Associate Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
• Stephanie Taylor, Attorney, Private Practice
• Julie Wimmer, Lecturer, Texas Law

International Human Rights 

• Ariel Dulitzky, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Clinic
• Karen Engle, Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Nonlitigation Practice Areas: Policy, Community Advocacy, Community Development

• Frances Martinez, Clinical Professor, Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic
• Heather Way, Clinical Professor, Housing Policy Clinic & Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic

Private Practice & Plaintiff-Side Litigation  

• Austin Kaplan, Attorney, Kaplan Law Firm
• Rebecca Webber, Attorney, Webber Law

Reproductive Justice 

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