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Session Description: If a leader neglects their organizational culture, that leader and their ambitions will become its victim. In the post-COVID era, real-world leadership and culture change equates to the sum of 50% science plus 100% art. While this equation might not make sense at first glance, this profound truth prevails in applied leadership settings where team and organizational performance is high. We can, indeed, stretch ‘beyond the good’ of traditional collaborative leadership. We can achieve great leadership where there is collective synergy among individual members. That is the notion of co-elevation – where the collective totality of the group is far greater than the simple sum of its individual parts. Co-elevation is a phenomenon where individuals are interdependent and simultaneously support and challenge each other to become stronger, smarter, more agile, and more effective human and public servants. Participants will be challenged to advance their leadership practice with art, with science, and with new tools and mindset strategies to strengthen their teams and organizational performance. This session will introduce the Six Principles of CoElevation Leadership – emphasizing the base for each principle and the best practices of Leading with Co-Elevation within each of the principles as well as teach the importance of applying both the sciences and arts to leadership practices.
Director of Leadership and Organizational Intelligence Alliance for Community and Justice Innovation (ACJI)
Glenn Tapia is the Director of Leadership and Organizational Intelligence with the Alliance for Community and Justice Innovation (ACJI). Glenn has over 37 years of leadership and criminal justice experience in the public sector in Colorado to include 28 years in community supervision. His career includes 25 consecutive years with the State of Colorado in strategic oversight and advancement of Colorado’s community corrections systems to include his current full-time position as Director of Probation Services for Colorado’s Judicial Department. Glenn has over 13 years of executive leadership and management experience in both the executive and judicial branches of government. Glenn’s tenured experience with the state policy process, strategic implementation of evidence-based practices and programs, and multi-level collaboration is augmented with advanced education and experience with academic instruction. Glenn has an ardent commitment to excellence in criminal justice administration that is centered in the application of science to public safety policy.
Session Description: This session will focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by examining the need to address these three key concepts within organization development – looking specifically at what leaders can do to ensure their agencies are diverse, inclusive, and equitable for all.
You will be challenged by critically analyzing key questions such as: Are community corrections agencies adequately addressing any racial inequities? How is racial equity being measured within agencies; and, if measured, how does and/or should it impact the delivery of services? How is the data being used to inform decision-making processes?
You will be engaged and participate in this lively session as we move DEI from an informative mindset to a strategy and implementation framework.
CEO / Principal Consultant, Cross-Cultural Dynamics
Dr. Jeff McGee is a consultant, professor, national speaker, podcast guest, published author of the nationally recognized book, “One Human Race: Five Stages to Empowering Transformative Change.” and thought leader in using an asset-based approach to understand cross-cultural and leadership competencies. He is passionate about equipping leaders with strategies and approaches to lead tomorrow’s organizations. He has studied and witnessed barriers between diverse groups where issues of trust, decision-making and roles are misunderstood. Dr. McGee has successfully led many organizations through consultations that have positively impacted organizational culture, relationship building efforts, and strategic planning.
His interactive approach to engagement empowers leaders to think differently and challenge norms. Dr. McGee has over 10 years of experience as a keynote speaker, educator, and trainer for K-12 schools, higher education institutions, businesses, city and county government agencies and nonprofit organizations including churches. His continued work and research seek to dismantle cross-cultural and leadership misunderstandings through education, practice, and policy making.
Dr. McGee serves on several local board of trustees, community groups, and dissertation committees. He holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership from Geneva College and a Doctorate in Education in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University.
Dr. McGee is also recognized through the Titan 100 program as one of Phoenix’s Top 100 CEO’s and C-level executives for 2023.
Session Description: As leaders, taking care of our wellness should be a critical part of our professional and personal journeys. Historically, community corrections leaders have been conditioned to put their teams, the community, and the organization first. Many question whether this approach is the best for the team, the community, the organization, and the leader. Recently, some attention has been given to addressing stress, trauma, and health within the organization, which may impact the various generations differently. This responsibility, however, has yet again been bestowed on leaders to execute – often without proper training, with limited resources, and with unaddressed/unresolved personal trauma.
This presentation discusses the intersection between leadership and wellness and offers strategies to deal with the day-to-day struggles of the job more effectively. Wellness should be a part of a leader’s practices and processes, not an afterthought or the response to a crisis. Some of the topics to be discussed include work and family dynamics; moral injury; internal conflict; boundaries and respect; the significant and insignificant approach, and hope.
Regional Supervisor, Massachusetts Probation Service
Carmen Z. Gomez, PhD is a Criminal Justice and Judicial professional and DEIA advocate with over 26 years of experience. She currently serves as a Regional Supervisor for the Massachusetts Probation Service. She holds a PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in Law, Policy, and Society, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Criminal Justice, and master’s level certificates in Mediation and Hostage Negotiation, Domestic Violence, CJ Management, and Behavioral Analysis. She has served as an adjunct professor at several colleges and universities, and as a consultant to local, state, and federal entities providing expertise in the areas of sex crimes, and serial killings.
She serves as an APPA Leadership Institute Coordinator. She also serves in the Board of Directors of the National Association of Probation Executive, Enroot, Cambridge Community Services, and the Governor’s Criminal Record Review Board. She is a current member of the American Probation and Parole Association and the Co-Founder and Member of the Foundation for Non-Violent Action.
She organized the Massachusetts Trial Court’s first annual Women’s History Month Celebration in 2021 and has worked with an impressive committee of women to plan subsequent celebrations. A continuation of her dedication to advancing women’s rights and securing recognition for their contributions.
She is the recipient of the 2020 Amplify Latinx Latina Leader for the category of Government, and Public Policy, 2019 Martin Luther King Spirit Award, 2018 Mutual of America Community Partnership – Rosie’s Place, 2017 Mutual of America – United States Mint Liberty Coin, 2017 Excellence Award Massachusetts Trial Court, 2017 Women of Distinction, 2015 One of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in Massachusetts, 2012 Excellence Award Massachusetts Trial Court, and Distinguished Alumna in Liberal Arts, Humanity, and Education.
She has devoted most of her life to public service, civil rights, wellness, leadership, and community engagement. She is committed to creating and supporting systems that embrace diversity, equality, inclusion, accessibility, and a fair and just legal system.
Session Description: Our field has changed, and agencies used to be staffed with officers who had 15+ years of experience. Now, in some agencies, many staff have less than five years of experience. Nationwide, agencies are experiencing high turnover and working with a shortage of staff. This equates to being staffed with individuals who have less practical, relevant work experience but who are tasked with doing it all from the very beginning of their employment. This session focuses on: (1) combating staff shortages through innovative hiring practices, and (2) identifying strategies to retain staff during this post-COVID era.
Senior Manager, Racial Equity
Senior Manager, Center for Effective Public Policy
Orleny Rojas
Orleny Rojas is CEPP’s Senior Manager for Racial Equity and Justice. She supports the Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research initiative and is helping expand CEPP's portfolio of racial equity and community engagement work aimed at addressing racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system and integrating the expertise of people directly impacted by the system.
Before joining CEPP, Ms. Rojas oversaw the Supervised Release Program in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island as Deputy Director of Criminal Court Operations. She led a team of social service practitioners who partnered with community organizations to improve pretrial outcomes. Ms. Rojas has over 12 years of experience working with various criminal justice and community stakeholders to center and address the needs of vulnerable populations. Previously, she was the Court Manager for the Court-Based Intervention Resource Team, which secured—with appropriate community program interventions and monitoring—the release of people who flagged for mental health at Rikers Island. Ms. Rojas holds a BS in business administration from Fordham University, an MSW from Fordham University, and a JD from Hofstra University.
Cynthia Mausser
Cynthia Mausser is a Senior Manager at CEPP, where she is helping develop the vision for, and supporting, the Community Supervision Resource Center. Ms. Mausser serves as a substantive expert on probation and parole supervision and delivers training and technical assistance to the field.
Previously, Ms. Mausser worked for over 30 years in the criminal justice field in Ohio, serving in a variety of positions, including Deputy Director at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Division of Parole and Community Services; Parole Board Chair, Parole Board Member, Chief Hearing Officer, and Hearing Officer at the Ohio Parole Board; and Assistant State Public Defender at the Office of the Ohio Public Defender. She was also an active member of the Association of Paroling Authorities International and served as President from 2014 to 2018. Ms. Mausser received her BA in criminal justice from Bowling Green State University and her JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Session Description: This session will provide an overview of emerging practices in community corrections. Emphasis will be placed on how states are implementing promising practices designed to enhance offender supervision and, therefore, yield better outcomes. Participants will hear about trends pertaining to creating positions related to fidelity and coaching; the importance of being familiar with organizational change and implementation science when rolling out new programs or changing culture; and the importance of departmental reviews and grant funding available to support reviews. Some attention will also focus on cognitive interventions (CCP, EPICS, etc.), utilization of assessments, and fidelity of programming.
Senior Court Management Consultant, National Center for State Courts
Danielle Young, MPA, is a Senior Court Management Consultant for the National Center for State Courts with over 20 years of justice system experience. Prior to working with the NCSC, Ms. Young was the Program Manager in the Probation Services Division with the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts (AOIC), where she worked for over 8 years. While at the AOIC, Ms. Young had the privilege of leading several state-wide initiatives including training all probation managers and officers in Core Correctional Practices, adult risk assessments and juvenile risk assessments. Ms. Young also assisted in the development and implementation of statewide problem-solving court standards as well as certification of many treatment courts throughout Illinois. Prior to the AOIC, she was a Probation Officer in McHenry County and Fulton County, working with adults, juveniles, mental health court and specialized drug probationers. Ms. Young graduated from Arkansas State University with a Master’s in Public Administration and received a BA in Political Science from Western Illinois University.
Session Description: APPA is engaged in a major project to develop national standards for adult community supervision. Funded by the National Institute of Corrections and coordinated by the Crime and Justice Institute, the project will produce standards which will provide definitive guidance for policy and practice in probation and parole agencies across the country.
This session will explore the concept of professional standards and their importance to probation and parole in the US, describe the development process, and review the content of the standards model. There will be an opportunity for audience participation and discussion of the standards – a crucial element of probation and parole’s future.
Corrections Management Consultant, Burrell Consulting, LLC
Deputy Director, Crime and Justice Institute
William D. Burrell
William D. Burrell is an independent corrections management consultant specializing in implementation of evidence-based practices in community corrections. From 2003 to 2007, he was a member of the faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, Bill served for nineteen years as chief of adult probation services for the New Jersey state court system.
He has consulted, and developed and delivered training on evidence-based practices for probation and parole agencies at the federal, state and county levels across the US. His book, Community Corrections Management: Issues and Strategies, was published by the Civic Research Institute.
Bill is currently the lead consultant for an NIC-funded project with the Alliance for Community & Justice Innovation to revise and update the NIC materials on evidence-based practices. He is also playing a lead role on an NIC-funded project with the APPA and the Crime & Justice Institute to develop standards for adult community supervision.
Valerie Meade
Valerie Meade is a deputy director with the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI), where she has worked for the past 5 years. She has worked in adult and youth justice for over 25 years, with expertise in the areas of cognitive behavioral interventions, case management, model fidelity, and continuous quality improvement. Ms. Meade has extensive experience with adult and youth populations on community supervision, in correctional facilities, and in substance use disorder treatment. In her current role, Valerie oversees projects aimed at helping states implement and sustain evidence-based policies.
Session Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly disrupting all aspects of society, in both good and bad ways; and community corrections is not immune from this disruptive wave. This presentation will discuss what AI is and how it can improve parole, probation, and pre-trial decisions. The presentation will also identify some risks of reliance on AI, particularly the risk of biases in historical data being silently propagated and even exacerbated by AI machine learning systems. While the impacts of AI on community corrections are already being felt, the future impacts are likely to be far more significant given the rapid acceleration of the technology. As a result of attending this session, leaders will begin to examine the ethical implications of AI, have an opportunity to learn about safeguards, formulate key questions as well as brainstorm considerations if they want to implement aspects of AI within their agency’s case management process.
Regents and Foundation Professor of Law, Arizona State University
Gary Marchant is a Regent's Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law, Science and Innovation. His research interests include legal aspects of genomics and personalized medicine, the use of genetic information in environmental regulation, risk and the precautionary principle, and governance of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, neuroscience, biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
He teaches courses in Law, Science and Technology, Genetics and the Law, Biotechnology: Science, Law and Policy, Health Technologies and Innovation, Privacy, Big Data and Emerging Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence: Law and Ethics. He was named a Regents' Professor in 2011 and also is a professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences, a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist in ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and is a Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies Law and Ethics with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.
Prior to joining ASU in 1999, Professor Marchant was a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis, where his practice focused on environmental and administrative law. During law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and was awarded the Fay Diploma (awarded to top graduating student at Harvard Law School).
Professor Marchant frequently lectures about the intersection of law and science at national and international conferences. He has authored more than 150 articles and book chapters on various issues relating to emerging technologies. Among other activities, he has served on six National Academy of Sciences committees, has been the principal investigator on several major grants, and has organized numerous academic conferences on law and science issues. He is an elected lifetime member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Session Description: This working lunch session will focus on the necessary collaboration between researchers and community corrections practitioners. Two key questions will be addressed: What research collaborations can offer parole and probation agencies? How to make collaborations mutually productive and engage with researchers? The presenter will provide an overview of a successful collaboration (How reforms in North Carolina Reduced Racial Disparities in Probation Revocations) from his own professional work experience. In addition, opportunities for future research collaborations will be discussed. Attendees will be able to pose questions to the presenter.
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Evan Rose is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. Mr. Rose has served as a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to Chicago, Mr. Rose was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree in Classics and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mr. Rose's research focuses on topics in labor, human capital, discrimination, and crime. His recent work has explored the long-term impacts of incarceration on labor market opportunity and systemic patterns in hiring discrimination among large U.S. employers. Mr. Rose’s publications include: How Does Incarceration Affect Reoffending? Who Gets a Second Chance? Effectiveness and Equity in Supervision of Criminal Offenders; and Does Banning the Box Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs?
Session Description: This session will provide an overview of The Council of State Governments Justice Center’s work around reentry (Reentry 2030) and efforts probation and parole agencies can take to foster reentry success. Discussion will focus on specific factors that impede a justice-involved individual’s ability to successfully reintegrate within the community.
Director, Corrections and Reentry Division, CSG Justice Center
Dr. Nicole Jarrett directs the Corrections and Reentry Division at the CSG Justice Center. She previously served as the division’s deputy director, guiding the organization’s grantee technical assistance, coordinating support to jurisdictions that are developing and implementing diversion, treatment, and reentry initiatives. Nicole previously served as the director of health policy research at the National Medical Association, where she led projects to strengthen the public health safety net and improve the quality of care provided in underserved communities. She also served as the director of community health policy at the Baltimore City Health Department, where she directed the city’s participation in the Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved Initiative. She received her BS from Rutgers University, her PhD in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center of Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research at Rutgers University.
