Community Engagement

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Rater’s goal in sharing her family’s experience – which inspired a key character in “Doubt,” the 2017 CBS legal series she and husband Tony Phelan created – is to help educate people on transgender identity as well as discuss her struggles for more transgender visibility on TV.

Colleen Flynn is a civil rights lawyer and Executive Board member of the L.A. Chapter of the Lawyers Guild. The Executive Board of NLG-LA, elected each December by NLG-LA's membership, is responsible for fundraising and governing the finances, operations, and programmatic work of the organization.  

Wendy Cheng is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Scripps College. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, comparative racialization, critical geography, urban and suburban studies, and diaspora. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough; University of California Press, 2012).

Fania Davis is a leading national voice on restorative justice, a quickly emerging field which invites a fundamental shift in the way we think about and do justice. She is a long-time social justice activist, Civil Rights trial attorney, restorative justice practitioner, writer, and scholar with a Ph.D. in Indigenous Knowledge. A founder and currently Director of Restorative Justice of Oakland Youth (RJOY), Fania served as counsel to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.

Kayla Williams-"Discovering the Invisible Toxins"
Kelsey Martin- "Decolonizing the Archive"
Sam Royall-"The Well-Meaning White People: A Critical Ethnography"