Schedule

9:00

Welcome

• Georgia Law School Dean Rebecca White

9:10

Panel – Through the Eyes of New Assistant Public Defenders

• Tosif Chouhan    -   Asst. Public Defender, Atlanta Circuit
• Elizabeth Taxel   -   Asst. Public Defender, Stone Mountain Circuit
• Azi Golshan        -   Asst. Public Defender, Coweta Circuit
• Texys Morris       -  Asst. Public Defender, Birmingham, Alabama

• Erica Hashimoto  -  Moderator, Associate Professor of Law, UGA

10:45

Panel – Circuit Public Defenders: Advocating from Within

• Claudia Saari       -    Circuit Public Defender, Stone Mountain Circuit
• Leisa Johnson     -    Circuit Public Defender, Dougherty Circuit
• Michael Edwards -    Circuit Public Defender, Eastern Circuit  
• John Donnelly      -    Circuit Public Defender, Western Circuit

• Russell Gabriel    -    Moderator, Director, UGA Criminal Defense Clinic

12:15

1:00

• An Opportunity for Audience, Panelists, Old Friends and New Friends to meet and talk.

Lunchtime Special Guest Speaker

• Ilham Askia        -         Executive Director, Gideon's Promise

1:15

Panel – Advocating from Outside the System

• Steve Bright         -      President, Southern Center for Human Rights
• Atteeyah Hollie     -      Attorney, Southern Center for Human Rights
• Sharon Hill            -      Director, Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice
• Mike Caplan - Associate, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP

• Russell Gabriel     -     Moderator

4:40

Panel – Discussing Gideon’s Army

• Dawn Porter           -     Producer/Director of the film
• Travis Williams       -    Asst. PD, Northeastern Judicial Circuit 
• Brandon Clark        -     CPD, Atlantic Judicial Circuit 
• Timothy Saviello     -     Professor, John Marshall Law School and Faculty member, Gideon’s Promise 

• Andrea Dennis       -      Moderator, Associate Professor of Law, UGA