NAPD Darrow Baldus College 2024: Full Schedule

Below is the current draft of the schedule. There will be some small changes as we work to finalize the sessions.

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12:30pm CDT

Welcome

Speakers

Jeff Sherr

Training Director, National Association for Public Defense

Jeff Sherr is the Training Director for the National Association for Public Defense producing hundreds of webinars for public defense professionals across the nation. Prior to that he was the Manager of the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Kentucky Department of Public... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 12:30pm - 12:50pm CDT
Room 295

Both Tracks

4:15pm CDT

Race and Culture in Capital Cases

Speakers

Lori James-Townes

Executive Director, NAPD

Lori James-Townes is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants... Read More →

Wednesday June 5, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm CDT
Room 295

Both Tracks

9:00am CDT

Interviewing for Adaptive Defecits

Speakers

Betsy Wilson

Founder, Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston

Betsy Wilson is a founder of the Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of sentencing advocates and record specialists. SAGE conducts mitigation investigations in federal and state and capital, juvenile-life-sentence, and non-capital cases... Read More →

Saturday June 8, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
Room 295

Breakout session

11:30am CDT

Closing

Speakers

Jeff Sherr

Training Director, National Association for Public Defense

Saturday June 8, 2024 11:30am - 12:15pm CDT
Room 295

Both Tracks