OR ANY SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT
CALL 1-800-529-7374 (1-800-LAW-REP4)
TO SEND AN ATTORNEY FROM THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE,
FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY, 365 DAYS A YEAR.
SI USTED O ALGUIEN QUIEN USTED CONOCE ESTA EN LA CUSTODIA DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE POLICÍA
EN EL CONDADO DE COOK, LLAME 1-800-529-7374 (1-800-LAW-REP4)
PARA MANDAR UN ABOGADO DE LA OFICINA DEL DEFENSOR PUBLICO,
GRATIS, 24 HORAS AL DÍA, 365 DÍAS AL AÑO.








Our Staff
Charles Jones
Civil Rights Paralegal
Zoraima Yoli Cruz
Director of Development
Alex Santistevan
Staff Attorney & Legal Education Director
Daniel Massoglia
Staff Attorney & Civil Rights Program Manager
Ray Robinson
Know Your Rights Know Your Resources Organizer
Ashley Rodriguez
DeNashia Robinson
Hotline VISTA Attorney
Suzanne Brown
Brittany Shaw
Help not Jail VISTA
Maddison Brindle
Lyla Wasz-Piper
Civil Rights Legal Aid and Restorative Justice Fellow
Queen Daphne
Enforce Your Rights VISTA
Eddie Lee
Jury of Our Peers VISTA
Alonso Cisneros
Policy Advocacy Coordinator
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
Julie Biehl, Director, Children and Family Justice Center
Jeff Brown, Northeastern University
Besty Clark, Juvenile Justice Initiative
Elfreda Dockery, Law Offices of Elfreda Dockery
Richard Dvorak, Dvorak Law Offices, LLC
Alan Mills, Uptown People’s Law Center
Shaena Fazal, John Howard Association
Craig Futterman, University of Chicago School of Law
Scott Levy, Law Offices of Scott Levy
John Lyke, Law Offices of John Lyke Jr.
Wayne Novak, Law Offices of Wayne Novak
Sean P. MacCarthy, Chittenden, Murday & Novotny LLC
Dev Parikh, Law Offices of Dev Parikh
Emlyn Ricketts, Jones College Prep
Sulaiman M. Qazi, Abbott Laboratories
Sarah Garza Resnick, Cook County Public Defender’s Office
Brendan Shiller, Shiller Preyar
David Simon, Eimer Stahl LLP
Patricia Smith, Law Offices of Patricia A. Smith
Theodore Woerthwein, Woerthwein & Miller
Honorary Board
Alan Goldberg: Office of the State Appellate Defender
Andrea D. Lyon: DePaul University College of Law
Carol A. Brook: Federal Defender Program
Cathy Cohen: University of Chicago department of Political Science, Black Youth Project
Cheryl Graves: Community Justice for Youth Institute, Northwestern Univeristy School of Law Children and Family Justice Center (Former Professor)
Darrius Lightfoot: Fearless Leaders by the Youth
David Coar: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Former District Judge)
Edwin A. Burnette: Former Cook County Public Defender
Flint Taylor: Founding Partner People’s Law Office
Harold Saffold: CPD Veteran, Founding member of: FDLA Board of Directors, Afro-American Patrolmen’s League (AAPL) and the National Black Police Association (NBPA)
Harold Winston: Assistant Cook County Public Defender and Supervisor in the Post-Conviction Unit
Herschella Conyers: University of Chicago Law School Mandel Legal Aid Clinic
Jamie Kalven: Invisible Institute
Jane Raley: In Memoriam: Northwestern University Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions
Joey Mogul: People’s Law Office, DePaul University
John T. Fitzgerald: Howard Area Community Center (Retired Executive Director)
Jorge Roque: New Life Center, CeaseFire Violence Interrupter
Karen Yarbrough: Cook County Recorder of Deeds
Kenneth L. Cunniff: Law Offices of Kenneth L. Cunniff
Locke E. Bowman: Northwestern University School of Law
Martin Castro: Former Chair: Illinois Human Rights Commission, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Miguel Rodriguez: Alternatives Inc., Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development (BUILD)
Ora Schub: Community Justice for Youth Institute
Eugene Pincham: In Memoriam, Former Justice, Illinois Appellate Court
Randolph N. Stone: University of Chicago School of Law
Richard S. Kling: Chicago-Kent College of Law
Robert Wildeboer: WBEZ
Scott Turow: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and Author
Sladjana Vuckovic: Law Office Of Sladjana Vuckovic, Former First Defense Staff Attorney
Sonia Antolec: Chief Administrative Law Judge for Illinois Healthcare and Family services, Former Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney
Stan Willis: Law Office of Standish E. Willis, Ltd., Black People Against Police Torture
Terence F. MacCarthy: Federal Defender Program
Terrence Truax: Jenner & Block
Terri Mascherin: Jenner & Block
Thomas Sullivan: Jenner & Block
Thomas Breen: Breen & Pugh