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CONFERENCE HOSTS
Jonathan Aronie
Chair, ABLE Project Board of Advisors, and Partner, Sheppard Mullin
Jonathan S. Aronie is the Federal Monitor over the New Orleans Police Department Consent Decree, appointed by Judge Susie Morgan of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. As Monitor, Jonathan leads a team of seven police professionals, two academics, and two lawyers. Jonathan began his career as law clerk to the Honorable Patricia A. Wynn, District of Columbia Superior Court. Jonathan subsequently joined the D.C. office of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. While at Fried Frank, Jonathan served as the deputy police monitor over the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department. Jonathan joined his current firm, Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton, in 2003, where he is the leader of the firm’s Government Contracts & Investigations Practice Group. Jonathan counsels and represents clients in some of the country’s largest and most prominent classified and unclassified Government contracts matters. In addition to serving as the NOPD Monitor, Jonathan is a pro bono member of the NOPD EPIC Working Group and the Chair of the Georgetown Law Center’s Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project Board of Advisors.
Christy Lopez
Professor from Practice and Co-Director,
Innovative Policing Program at Georgetown University Law Center
Christy Lopez is a Professor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches courses on police reform and criminal justice. She also co-directs Georgetown University Law Center’s Innovative Policing Program, which houses the Police for Tomorrow Fellowship along with the ABLE Project. From 2010-2017, Professor Lopez served as a Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lopez led the Section’s Police Practice Group, which conducted pattern-or-practice investigations of police departments and other law enforcement agencies. Professor Lopez’s police reform efforts involved many law enforcement agencies, including the Chicago Police Department, the New Orleans Police Department, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the Newark, New Jersey Police Department, and the Missoula, Montana police department, campus police, and prosecutor’s office. In the summer of 2020, Professor Lopez co-founded the ABLE Project. Professor Lopez received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Riverside, and is licensed to practice law in Washington D.C. and California.
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