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SUMMARY:Leading with Heart and Integrity: Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Leadership in Public Defense
DESCRIPTION:Description\nPublic defenders operate daily in environments that demand empathy\, clarity\, and ethical judgment. This 90-minute interactive webinar\, led by Dr. Pam Love and Dr. Lori James\, explores how emotional intelligence (EI) enhances ethical decision-making and leadership effectiveness. Participants will examine how self-awareness\, self-regulation\, motivation\, empathy\, and social skill—core components of EI—directly influence ethical reasoning\, professional integrity\, and team trust. Attendees will learn strategies to apply The Four Frames along with emotional intelligence to complex ethical dilemmas\, strengthen team cohesion\, and sustain well-being while leading in high-stress environments.\n\n\nNote: The Four Frames of Leadership\, developed by Bolman and Deal\, are mental models (Structural\, Human Resource\, Political\, Symbolic)\n\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nGoal 1: Deepen the understanding of emotional intelligence as a leadership competency.\n\nObjective 1.1: Identify and describe the five domains of emotional intelligence (self-awareness\, self-regulation\, motivation\, empathy\, and social skills).\nObjective 1.2: Explore how emotional intelligence influences leadership effectiveness in public defense settings and how the Four-Frames Model supports the need for us to develop in this area.\n\n\nGoal 2: Strengthen ethical decision-making through emotional intelligence.\n\nObjective 2.1: Examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and ethical reasoning in client advocacy and workplace dynamics.\nObjective 2.2: Apply an ethical decision-making model that integrates emotional intelligence to resolve leadership and client-centered dilemmas.\n\n\nGoal 3: Discuss ways in which emotionally intelligent leadership practices promote equity and resilience.\n\nObjective 3.1: Discuss strategies to manage emotional triggers and promote psychological safety within teams.\nObjective 3.2: Discuss ways in which personal action planning enhances ethical and emotionally intelligent leadership practices in daily defense work.\n\n\n\n\nPresenters\n\nLori James\, Ph.D.\, MSW\, LCSW-C \nLori James\, Ph.D.\, MSW\, LCSW-C is a nationally recognized executive leader\, scholar\, ordained minister\, and sought-after speaker with more than 30 years of experience at the intersection of leadership development\, social justice\, criminal legal reform\, and faith-based advocacy. She currently serves as Executive Director of the National Association for Public Defense (NAPD)\, where she leads a national organization representing more than 27\,000 public defense professionals across the United States and U.S. territories\, advancing equity\, excellence\, and systemic reform in public defense. Dr. James earned a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies (2025). Her dissertation\, Chains of Grace: The Church’s Call to Minister to Previously Incarcerated Individuals\, examines the theological\, pastoral\, and psychosocial responsibilities of the Church in responding to mass incarceration and reentry. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Morgan State University. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker–Clinical (LCSW-C) and is pursuing a Doctor of Social Work (DSW) at Tulane University\, focusing on women in executive leadership. A certified John Maxwell Trainer\, Coach\, and Speaker\, Dr. James is also the President and CEO of Expand-NOW\, LLC\, where she provides executive coaching\, leadership development\, organizational consulting\, and faith-informed training to justice-centered organizations nationwide. A recipient of the Gideon Hero Award and recognition as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women (2015\, 2025). Dr. James is widely respected for leading with clarity\, courage\, compassion\, and conviction—consistently advancing dignity\, restoring humanity\, and equipping leaders to serve boldly at the margins.\n\nDr. Pamela Love\nPresident of DP Love Enterprises and founder of the Finishers Network\, who is an internationally renowned speaker\, author\, and coach. With a PhD in social work and a MBA\, Dr. Love has dedicated her career to empowering individuals and organizations to achieve their highest potential. She has been on faculty with NAPD for over 5 years.
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SUMMARY:Using VPSA Framework For Strategic Communication
DESCRIPTION:Description\nVPSA (Value\, Problem\, Solution\, Action} is a communication framework designed to build persuasive\, values based messages. It’s the primary tool for social justice leaders and communicators to move audiences toward systemic change. \nLearning Objectives\n1. Establish common ground through shared values. \n2. Reframe problems as systemic threats that have opportunities for solutions. \n3. Motivate specific audience action(s). \n  \nPresenter(s)\nDarwin Hamilton is an award winning fifth-generation Austinite\, whose ancestral home\, the historic Dedrick-Hamilton House that has served as office space for the Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce and site of the African American Cultural and Heritage Facility.  He is one of the co-founders of the Reentry Advocacy Project (RAP)\nFor over a decade he has been an activist\, advocate\, strategist\, mentor\, leader\, keynote speaker and author of his self-published memoir 25 Years Later: A Sentence from Crime to Redemption\, Resilience\, Advocacy and Leadership.  His memoir offers a rare and urgent perspective on the criminal justice system\, blending raw storytelling with sharp policy insight. His op-eds have been published in the Austin American Statesman and by the ACLU of Texas.\nAs an author and speaker\, he brings lived experience to the table with clarity\, compassion\, and strategic vision\, offering actionable recommendations for change.  Whether addressing policymakers\, practitioners\, or community leaders. He illuminates the path from fear to hope and possibility\, from survival to systemic transformation.\nCurrently he serves on the Oversight Board of Travis County’s Public Defender Office\, National Association of Public Defense Board of Directors\, Trinity University and UTSA Philosophy & Literature Circle.  He is an alumnus of Leadership Austin – Essential program and JustLeadership USA 2018 cohorts.
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/using-vpsa-framework-for-strategic-communication/
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SUMMARY:Kluver–Bucy Syndrome (KBS) and the Criminal Justice System: A Forensic Neuroscience and Neurocriminological Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Klüver-Bucy syndrome (KBS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder precipitated by bilateral brain damage in the temporal lobes\, including the hippocampus and amygdala. Common causes of this type of brain damage include traumatic brain injuries\, strokes\, herpes simplex encephalitis\, tuberculosis\, and other neurological conditions (e.g.\, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases). Typical consequences of KBS include visual agnosia\, memory difficulties\, placidity\, and behavioral disturbances (e.g.\, disinhibition and hypersexuality). These behavioral symptoms can contribute to the onset of criminal justice involvement\, which is not uncommon among some individuals with KBS or other neurological disorders. Developed for criminal justice\, forensic mental health\, and legal professionals\, this innovative training provides an overview of the etiology\, symptoms\, and developmental trajectories of KBS. Cutting-edge research from forensic neuroscience and neurocriminology will be highlighted throughout the training. \n  \nJerrod Brown\, Ph.D.\, M.A.\, M.S.\, M.S.\, M.S.\, is a professor\, trainer\, researcher\, and consultant with multiple years of experience teaching collegiate courses. Jerrod is also the founder and CEO of the American Institute for the Advancement of Forensic Studies (AIAFS). Jerrod has also provided consultation services to a number of caregivers\, professionals\, and organizations pertaining to topics related to autism spectrum disorder (ASD)\, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)\, confabulation\, suggestibility\, trauma and other life adversities\, alexithymia\, executive dysfunction\, criminal recidivism\, traumatic brain injury (TBI)\, and youth firesetting. Jerrod has completed four separate master’s degree programs and holds graduate certificates in Neuroscience and the Law\, Neuropsychology\, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)\, Other Health Disabilities (OHD)\, and Traumatic-Brain Injuries (TBI). In 2021\, Jerrod completed a post-doctoral certificate in Leadership and Organizational Strategy from Walden University and a Professional Certificate in Forensic Psychology from San Diego State University Global Campus. In 2023\, Jerrod completed a diabetes care and education certificate from Central Arizona College. Currently\, Jerrod is pursuing his fifth master’s degree in Applied Clinical Nutrition from Northeast College of Health Sciences.Jerrod has also conducted over 300 workshops\, webinars\, and on-demand trainings for various organizations and professional and student audiences. Jerrod has published several articles and book chapters\, and recently\, co-edited the book Forensic Mental Health: A Source Guide for Professionals (Brown & Weinkauf\, 2018) with ErvWeinkauf. Jerrod has also been quoted in various magazines\, newspapers\, and other professional outlets. Jerrod is also regularly featured on several national and international podcast programs.
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SUMMARY:What Have We Learned So Far from the National Public Defense Well-Being Study?
DESCRIPTION:Description:\nBeSustained\, a national nonprofit with the mission of improving access to justice by advancing the well-being of public defenders\, is conducting a national study of well-being in public defense. At this webinar\, Harvard Business School researcher Jon Jachimowicz will share findings from a daily diary study conducted in November 2025\, seeking to deepen our understanding of what drives passion\, energy and sustainability in public defense. Matt Thiese\, a researcher with the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health\, will share plans for the upcoming survey and focus groups that will survey issues affecting public defender well-being.   The findings and recommendations from this project will help support individual defenders\, improve the organizations we work in\, and inform the systems making budget and policy decisions that impact public defense. \nPresenter Bio:\nJon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School\, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies the experience\, antecedents\, and consequences of passion. His work reveals that scholars and the broader public often fundamentally misunderstand passion. \nMatthew S. Thiese\, PhD\, MSPH\, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah’s Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health\, one of the 18 NIOSH-sponsored Education and Research Centers in the US. He earned his BS in Exercise and Sport Science (2001)\, MSPH in General Public Health (2003)\, and PhD in Occupational Injury Prevention (2008). Dr. Thiese’s dissertation focused on the predictive relationship on physical activity and the incidence of low back pain. This dissertation involved field measurements of workers’ on-the-job and leisure time physical activity. He has extensive experience in physical activity assessment\, energy expenditure measurement\, and observational research. Dr. Thiese’s primary areas of research interest are 1) transportation worker health and 2) musculoskeletal disorders. His research has included multiple field studies\, including three large cohort studies and two large cross-sectional studies involving either transportation workers or musculoskeletal disorders. Dr. Thiese currently teaches three courses at the School of Medicine and is involved in multiple ongoing field research projects. Dr. Thiese has field experiences with measuring aerobic capacity and energy expenditures in both laboratory and occupational settings. \nJenny Andrews\, she/her. A child of counterculture\, raised off the grid by back-to-the-land hippies on the Lost Coast in Northern California\, Jenny Andrews is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School. She started her career as a public defender in Oakland\, California in 1996\, but left after seven years\, after experiencing burnout and moral injury\, and didn’t practice law for three years. She returned to public defense work in 2007 and continued working as a public defender in Sonoma County and Santa Barbara County until 2022\, consistently litigating cases and navigating challenges to sustainability in a wide variety of positions\, including: Forensic Resource Counsel\, Felony Team Leader\, Director of Training\, and Senior Deputy. In 2022\, she became the Director of Training at the Indigent Defense Improvement Division of the Office of the State Public Defender\, a new statewide effort to support and train indigent defenders in California. She teaches on the faculty of Gideon’s Promise\, the National Association for Public Defense\, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association\, the National Criminal Defense College\, the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School\, and the Stanford Trial Advocacy & New Defender Uplift Program (STANDUP). She is the founder and director of BeSustained\, a national nonprofit with the mission of improving access to justice by advancing the well-being of public defenders. She speaks nationwide on public defense well-being and has been interviewed by Slate Magazine\, Public Defenseless and Moral Matters podcasts.
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