2023 Judicial Conference Program

Maryland chapter, 2015-). Judicial liaison, Charles County Bar Association. President, Southern Maryland Women’s Bar Association, 2016-2019. Business owner, Dee’s Candles, 2000-04. Adjunct faculty, Bowie State University, 2003-2019. Adjunct faculty, College of Southern Maryland, business law, 2021-. Board of Directors, Court Advocates for Family and Youth, 2010-14 (volunteer, 2005-).7th Circuit High School Mock Trial, Charles County Coordinator, 2022-. Asst. Recording Secretary, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., 1990-. Charter member of the National Council of Negro Women, Charles Co. Chapter. Youth Kitchen Ministry Coordinator, New Life Church, La Plata, Maryland, 2016-. Maryland’s Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 2018. Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record, 2018.

LAUREN-BROOKE EISEN BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE 1140 CONNECTICUT AVE., NW | 11TH FLOOR, SUITE 1150 | WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036

LAUREN-BROOKE EISEN is the Senior Director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program where she leads the Brennan Center’s work to end mass incarceration. Her team focuses on exposing the profound social and economic hardships that impact those who encounter the justice system while creating policies that ultimately shrink its size and scope. Eisen has authored several nationally recognized reports and articles on how to reduce America’s reliance on incarceration. Her work has been featured in media outlets across the country, including the New York Times, USA Today, Time, U.S. News and World Report, the Daily News, and the Marshall Project and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, National Public Radio, as well as many other television and radio news programs. Eisen is the author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017). She is also a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting journalism grantee. She served on the Advisory Council of the New York City Bar’s Task Force on Mass Incarceration; the transition committee for Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez; and co-chaired the transition committee for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Eisen taught an undergraduate seminar on mass incarceration at Yale University and serves as an adjunct instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Before joining the Brennan Center, Eisen was a senior program associate at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she worked on the sentencing and corrections team to implement policies in multiple states to improve public safety while reducing prison populations. She also previously served as an assistant district attorney in New York City, where she worked in the Appeals Bureau, the Criminal Court Bureau, and the Sex Crimes Special Victims Bureau. Before entering law school, Eisen worked as a beat reporter for a daily newspaper in Laredo, Texas, covering criminal justice and immigration. Eisen holds an AB from Princeton University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

ITTA C. ENGLANDER, ESQ. NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM 64 NEW YORK AVENUE | WASHINGTON, D.C. 20002

ITTA C. ENGLANDER, ESQ., Senior Staff Attorney , Neighborhood Legal Services Program Goucher College of Maryland, BA, English and Theatre, 2003; University of Baltimore School of Law, JD, 2009; Member of the Maryland Bar since 2010; Member of the DC Bar since 2021. Committees: MSBA Leadership Academy Fellow, 2020-2022; Prince George’s County Courts Model Court Committee (Ready by 21), 2014-2015; Statewide Youth Equality Alliance, 2014-2015; LGBTQ Bar Association, 2018-2022 (Judicial Selections Committee Chair 2020-2022).

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