Charles C. Cavano,
Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court
Cavano has focus the
last 10 years at Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court in areas of fiscal,
evaluation, analytical research, grants management and
implementation strategies of youth programs within Cuyahoga County.
He continues to serve as a consultant or director of
small/medium-sized profit and nonprofit organizations.
Dan Elliott,
Director of Advocacy and General Counsel, Lutheran Metropolitan
Ministry
Elliott has been the
full time volunteer Director of Advocacy and General Counsel of
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry since October, 2000. LMM serves
clients in the ex-offender, at-risk youth, disabled and elderly
communities. Its Community Re-Entry, Women's Re-Entry Resource
Network, and related programs are nationally known for transitioning
ex-offenders to productive lives after prison. Prior to
joining LMM, Dan practiced international corporate law as General
Counsel of White Consolidated Industries, part of AB Electrolux in
Sweden. Before that, he was a partner with Jones, Day and was an
Administrative Assistant to a New York Congressman in 1968. He has
served with numerous non-profits, including as President of
Cleveland Community Shares, founder of Cleveland Tenants
Organization, a board member of Neighborhood Centers Association,
and Chair of the Federal Court Commission which monitored the
desegregation of the Cleveland Public Schools.
Click here to learn more about the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry.
Kathleen Hale,
Director of Research, Public Policy & Strategic Planning, Oriana
House, Inc.
Oriana House is an
Ohio nonprofit organization dedicated to providing chemical
dependency treatment and community corrections services. Hale
is a doctoral candidate at Kent State University where she teaches
courses in nonprofit law, theory and public policy.
Click here to learn more about
Oriana House, Inc.
Linda Modry, Bureau Chief of Subsidies, Ohio Department of Youth
Services
Modry has worked in
the juvenile justice system for over 20 years. She is
currently the Bureau Chief of Subsidies with the Ohio Department of
Youth Services. This bureau is responsible for administering
funding to juvenile courts through RECLAIM (Reasoned and Equitable
Community and Local Alternatives to the Incarceration of Minors)
Ohio and the Youth Services Grant programs, providing training and
technical assistance, coordinating the Comprehensive
Strategy/Partnerships for Success Initiative, and the AmeriCorps
Youth and Communities in Partnership program.
Fritz Rauchenberg,
Senior Policy Researcher, State of Ohio
Rachenberg has been
Research Coordinator for the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission
since January of 1992. He previously spent five years with the
Legislative Budget Office of the Ohio General Assembly. He has
done extensive research on fiscal costs of sentencing and
imprisonment.
Professor Wornie Reed,
Cleveland State University
Reed is director of
the Urban Child Research Center at CSU's Maxine Goodman Levine
College of Urban Affairs. He has done extensive research on
the impact of incarceration on African Americans. Prior to his
tenure at CSU, Reed was director of the William Monroe Trotter
Institute and chairman of the Department of Black Studies at the
University of Massachusetts.
Vincent Schiraldi,
President, Justice Policy Institute (JPI)
JPI is a think tank
committed to reducing society's reliance on incarceration. Schiraldi has published studies on fiscal impacts of criminal
justice policies including Cellblocks or Classrooms.
Read
Cellblocks and
Classrooms, a August 2002 joint release with the Justice
Policy Institute and Policy Matters Ohio.
Lateefah Simon,
Executive Director, Center for
Young Women's Development (CYWD)
Simon is a 26-year-old
ex-juvenile offender whose organization helps young female juvenile
offenders navigate the criminal justice system and find work and
childcare upon release.
Click here to
learn more about the Center for Young Women's Development.
Professor Bruce Western,
Princeton University
Western just concluded
a year as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
He has written numerous articles on the social and economic impacts
of the U.S. criminal justice journals. He is on the editorial
board of World Politics, is a corresponding editor for
Theory and Society, and has served as a guest editor of a
special issue on Bayesian analysis for Sociological Methods and
Research.
Other
Participant Links
AmeriCorps
Columbiana County
Sheriff's Office
Cuyahoga
County Juvenile Court
Justice Policy Institute
Ohio Department of
Rehabilitation and Corrections
Ohio Department of Youth
Services
Ohio State Senate
Prison Reform Advocacy Center
RECLAIM Ohio
Stark County
Sheriff's Office
Summit County
Sheriff's Office
Urban Child
Research Center
