Participants listen to a guest speaker at the 2024 convening

Coalition

The ADI Coalition

Dismantling systemic racism is a monumental task that requires us to work together. Part of the ADI’s mission is building a coalition of collaborators and supporters, both within the legal academy and from the outside community.

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Book Series Collaborators

Over 120 colleagues from the legal academy, legal profession, and adjacent organizations are contributing to the book series as chapter contributors, editors, content reviewers, and workshop facilitators, representing 76 institutions across the country.

Dean Danielle M. Conway — “Antiracist Leadership”, “Engaging Antiracism Unapologetically”, “Defining Institutional Antiracism”, “Using Systems Design to platform Antiracism”, “The Intentional Emphasis on Law and Legal Systems”, “Illustrations”, and “The Book Series At-a-Glance”
TaWanda Stallworth — "Antiracist Legal Coalition"

Danielle Boardley and Dan Filler — “Unlocking Partnerships Through Vulnerability and Validation”
Robert Chang — “From Antiracism Statements to Antiracist Action”
Benjamin Davis — “Searching for the Spirit”
Meera Deo — “Centering Marginalized Populations”
Jelani Jefferson Exum — “Stepping into Antiracist Leadership: Leading as You”
Garry Jenkins — “Leading Inclusive Change in Higher Education”
Johanna Kalb — “Learning While Leading: Growing as an Antiracist Dean”
Elizabeth Kronk Warner — “Indigenizing Law Schools”
Victoria Haneman — “Change Management and the Antiracist Law School”
Taja-Nia Henderson - Editor
Efraín Marimón — System Designer
Kim Mutcherson — “Leading with Anger”
Angela Onwuachi-Willig — "Advancing Antiracism in Law Schools: Beyond Statements and into Action"
Sudha Setty — “Coalition Building and Creating Pathways for Asian-American Women in Law School Leadership”
Kellye Testy — “So You Want to Help? Ten Steps White Women Legal Educators Can Take to Advance Antiracist Legal Education”

Nancy Chi Cantalupo – “Tyranny of the Minority: Building Antiracist Law Schools Through Changing Law Faculty Hiring Practices”
Dorothy H. Evensen – “It Takes a Law School”
Jess Findley, Marc L. Miller, and Keith Swisher — “Building Transformative & Replicable Antiracist Pipelines: The JD-Next and BA in Law Programs at the University of Arizona”
James Forman, Jr. and Kayla Vinson – “Access to Law School”
Demetria D. Frank — “The Meritocracy Myth: Admission by Performance Programs as Antiracism”
Deseriee Kennedy – “Broadening the Pipeline”
Renee Nicole Allen — “Complicit Bias and the Antiracist Law School”
Alireza Nourani-Dargiri — “Mentoring — Helping Minoritized Students Navigate an Overwhelmingly White Profession”
Carla Pratt – Editor; “Reengineering Law School Admission and Transfer in a Post Affirmative Action Environment”
Angela Winfield “Systematizing U.S. Law School Pathway Programs”
Dr. Nickey Woods — “Law School and Athletics: An Innovative Pipeline Program”

Maryam Ahranjani — “The Role of the Law School Dean and Tenured Faculty in Supporting and Sustaining Ethical and Antiracist Admissions Practices”
Maryam Ahranjani and Adria Nobles Kimbrough — “Is Standardized Testing Antithetical to Antiracism Efforts in Law School Admissions?”
Jay Austin — Editor
Catherine Casiano, J.D. — “The Human Behind the Curtain: Understanding the Role of Admissions Professionals”
Anthony Ervin, Erika Hill, Korey Mercer, and Jordan Pittman — “Preserving Access & Securing Diversity: How HBCU Law Schools Champion Holistic Admissions”
Camille Gear Rich and Tristin K. Green — “Antiracist Admissions Policies in the Second Wave of Colorblindness”
Alan Haynes and Omari Scott Simmons — “Community Engagement to Broaden Law School Admissions”
Gayla Jacobson – “Decriminalizing the Law School Application”
Mario Lopez and Elizabeth McGriff — “Reimagining Law School”
Patricia Roberts — Editor
Bekah Saidman-Krauss — “An Introduction to Antiracist Approaches to Admissions in U.S. Law Schools”

Reyes Aguilar — “More Than Just Tuition: Financing Law School as a Strategic Investment”
Tai Gedeon — "Weaponizing Need: Misperceptions about Financial Aid that Perpetuate Discrimination in Graduate Professional Education”
Cassandra Hunter — “From Undergraduate School to Law School: How This Bend in the Road is a Knot That Needs to be Untied”
Rebecca Schreiber — “Creating Meaningful Access and Imagining an Antiracist Financial Aid Office”
Aaron N. Taylor — “Fostering an Equitable Scrum: A Conceptual Framework for Using Antiracist Enrollment Management Practices to Counter Job Market Discrimination”
Mario Villa — “Less Debt, More Stress: The Surprising Financial Reality of Hispanic Attorneys”
Nasreen Zia — “Student Federal Loan Program: Eliminating Barriers to Monies to Improve Access and Affordability”

Nadia Ahmad – Editor; “An Educator's Journey in Florida: The Antiracist Nexus of Media, Violence, and Empire”
Richard Chen and MJ Palau-McDonald — “Teaching Antiracism Against the Backdrop of Settler Colonialism”
andré douglas pond cummings and Jordan Sender — “Developing a Social Justice Curriculum and Concentration”
Amy Gaudion — “Delivering An Antiracist Curriculum: Equipping Faculty and Staff with the Tools Needed to Become Antiracist Legal Educators” and “Identifying Antiracist Curricular Touchpoints: Embracing Bureaucracy to Accomplish Change”
Sonia Gipson Rankin – Editor
Donna H. Lee – “Uncovering Theoretical Perspectives in the Classroom, and Teaching Students to Develop Their Own Theoretical Perspectives”
Kevin Lee — “Teaching Antiracism While Teaching Legal Technology”
Andrea Martin — “Empowering Law Students to Be Antiracist: A Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning Approach”
Ashley Nichol Patterson – Systems Designer
Robert R. Statchen — “Providing Bias, Cross-Cultural Competency and Racism Education in Clinics and Externships Pursuant to the New ABA Standard 303(c)”
LaWanda W. M. Ward – “Toward an Antiracist Legal Curriculum: (Re)Visiting the Norm of Perspectivelessness in Legal Education”

Cheryl Bratt and Reena Parikh – “Lessons Learned from Boston College Law School’s Required 1L Critical Perspectives Course”
Jill C. Engle — “Reimagining the Classroom Hierarchy”
Nicole P. Dyszlewski (Editor), Diana Hassel, and Nadiyah Humber– “Curricular Design”
Dermot Groome — Editor; “Critical Pedagogy and Antiracist Legal Education”
Almas Khan – “Graphic Narratives and the Construction of Antiracist Legal Pedagogy”
Andrew King-Ries and Monte Mills — “Developing Antiracist Professional Identity Through Use of Racial Identity Development Models”
Anita Maddali — “Reflective Tools & Practices to be Emotionally Present for Difficult Classroom Conversations”
Melinda S. Molina — “Standing Your Ground on Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom”
Tomar Pierson-Brown — “The Systems Design Approach to Antiracist Teaching”
Dr. Mireille Rebeiz — “Feedback or Expressions of Bias?”
Julie Tedjeske Crane — “Critical Approaches to Legal Research Instruction”
Keeshea Turner Roberts – “Words Matters: The Conflict Between Professional Academic Freedom and the Implementation of DEI Policies in Today’s Law Schools”
Lucy Johnston-Walsh — “Antiracist Clinical Legal Education”
Lucy Johnston-Walsh and Medha D. Makhlouf— “Reflective Practice for Antiracist Teaching and Learning”

James M. Binnall and Joan W. Howarth – “Welcoming People with Criminal Histories into the Legal Profession
Ray Brescia – Editor; "The Exclusionary Origins of Law School Accreditation Requirements"
Jermaine Cruz – “The Preposterousness of Impostor Syndrome”
Kristina Ebanks – “Checking-In – Incorporating Antiracist Solutions into Law Student Well-Being” and “Adopting a Systems Design Framework to Incorporate Antiracism Principles Within Student Services”
Anu Gupta – Systems Designer
Darlene Hemerka, Esq. — “Supporting and Empowering Students with Disabilities: Common Mistakes and Best Practices”
Nancy Johnson — “Antiracist Principles and the Lived Experience of Minoritized and Marginalized Students”
Joy Kanwar – Editor; “Where do we Belong?”
Paige Snelgro – “Next-Gen for First-Gen and Other Students”
Takara Strong – “Law School, the Bar Exam and Bar Admission: An inherently racist scholastic achievement”
Carol Suzuki – “Early and Often: Engaging in Anti-Racist Practices in the First Year by Promoting Journals, Term Clerkships and Other Opportunities”
Erin Tatum – “Disability Will Come Knocking. It Matters How We Answer.”

Gillian Dutton – “The Role of Experiential Education and Externships in Antiracist Education, Part I: Developing Antiracist Externs” and “The Role of Experiential Education and Externships in Antiracist Education. Part II: Developing Antiracist Supervisors
Brian R. Gallini — “A Pathway to Licensure Reform”
Andrew King-Ries and Monte Mills — “Preparing Students for the Profession We Have or the Profession We Need? Supporting Students to Further Their Antiracist Professional Identity in Practice”
Katrina Lee — “A Holistic Business-of-Law Framework for Law Firms”
Tom Lee — “Holistic Candidate Evaluation in Hiring Effective Lawyers”
Alison Lintal — “Community Care: Liberatory Well-Being Practices to Develop and Sustain Anti-Racist Law Students, Educators, and Lawyers”
Richard McCoy — “What Role Can CLE Play in Creating and Maintaining an Antiracist Legal Profession?”
Natasha Robinson – “A Sankofa Moment of Going Back to Move Forward: A Womanist Reflection Concerning the Incorporation of Antiracist Principles Helping in the Transformation of Racist Praxis”
Shaakirrah Sanders – Editor
M. Kelly Tillery – “Historical Perspective: The Law and Color - Complicity and Redemption”

Camille Davidson — “The Spirit of a Cheerful Giver: How Oseola McCarty’s Generosity Is an Enduring Inspiration for Philanthropy and Justice”
Tina Flint Hennessey — “Reimagining Advancement through an Antiracist Lens”
Marybeth Gasman — “How to Dismantle Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring: We Must Do the Right Thing”
Ashley Golledge — “How to Promote Antiracism through Marketing and Communications”
Michael Hunter Schwartz — “Metrics for Advancement” (Fundraising Alumni Relations, and Marketing and Communication)
Twinette Johnson
Susan Jin Davis — Systems Designer
Griffith Lindsay — “Why do we Support the Antiracist Development Institute?”
Camille Nelson — “Thinking Differently about Generosity”
Mary Walsh Fitzpatrick — “What Counts as Philanthropy”

Systems Designers

Systems designers are essential to the success of this project. They guide the writing of each volume in accordance with training in design-thinking that they have received.

The systems design approach to the writing of each volume relies on critically examining law schools by their constituent parts — or, more aptly, their functions — to identify embedded inequities. Once embedded inequities are revealed within a function, the next step is to deploy a systems design rubric to transform one or more functions of the organization.

Nicole Dyszlewski

Systems Designer

Jim Griffith

Systems Designer

Anu Gupta

Systems Designer

Susan Jin Davis

Systems Designer

Nancy Johnson

Systems Designer

Efraín Marimon

Systems Designer

Ashley Patterson

Systems Designer

Cam Richardson

Systems Designer

M. Kelly Tillery

Systems Designer

Kristal Turner-Childs

Systems Designer

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Book Series Collaborators

Systems Designers

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