Judiciary and Public Safety

COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY AND PUBLIC SAFETY BROOKE PINTO, CHAIR WITNESS LIST FOR A PERFORMANCE OVERSIGHT HEARING ON Sentencing Commission Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants Wednesday, January 24, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. Room 500, John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Councilmember Pinto’s YouTube Page (www.youtube.com/@cmbrookepinto) DC Council Website (dccouncil.us) Council Channel 13 (Cable Television Providers) Office of Cable Television Website (entertainment.dc.gov) AGENDA AND WITNESS LIST I. CALL TO ORDER II. OPENING REMARKS III. WITNESS TESTIMONY SENTENCING COMMISSION GOVERNMENT WITNESS 1. Hon. Milton Lee, Chairman, D.C. Sentencing Commission 2. Linden Fry, Executive Director. D.C. Sentencing Commission OFFICE OF VICTIM SERVICES AND JUSTICE GRANTS PUBLIC WITNESSES IN PERSON 1. Nancy Drane, Executive Director, D.C. Access to Justice Commission 2. Dawn Dalton, Executive Director, DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence 3. Charles Lowery, President, District of Columbia Bar 4. Rachel Feinstein, Director of DC Government and Community Relations, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington 5. Ingrid Swinton, Public Witness VIRTUAL 6. Kirra Jarratt, Chief Executive Officer, DC Bar Foundation 7. Diana Fitz, Senior Case Manager, Ayuda 8. Sandy Marifer Hernández Escobar, Client, Ayuda (Spanish Interpreter) 9. Tatiana Santos, Language Access Coordinator, Ayuda 10. Karen Newton Cole, Co-Chair, DC Consortium of Legal Service Providers 11. Marilyn Lovo, Language Access Director, Ayuda 12. Caroline Fehr, Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Aid DC 13. Elena Bowers, Supervising Attorney, Legal Aid DC 14. Daniel del Pielago, Housing Director, Empower DC 15. Kelly Jarvis, Director of Research in Community Health, NPC Research 16. Sunny Desai, Manager & Legal Aid Attorney, Legal Counsel for the Elderly 17. Saunya Connelly, Tenant Empowerment Specialist, Legal Counsel for the Elderly 18. Roberta Eaton, Executive Director, Deaf Abused Women Network (ASL Interpreter) 19. June Crenshaw, Executive Director, Wanda Alston Foundation 20. Lindsey Silverberg, Deputy Director, Network for Victim Recovery of DC 21. Sara Tennen, Executive Director, DC Volunteer Lawyers Project 22. Natalia Otero, Co-Founder and Exec. Director, DC Survivors and Advocates for Empowerment (DC SAFE) 23. Kylie Hogan, Crisis Intervention Team Director, DC Survivors and Advocates for Empowerment (DC SAFE) 24. Katherine Aarndel, Interim Associate Director, Community Housing Programs, District Alliance for Safe Housing 25. LaTifah Sutton, Associate Director, Residential Programs, District Alliance for Safe Housing 26. Kandice Louis, Senior Director Programs, District Alliance for Safe Housing 27. Koube Ngaaje, President and CEO, District Alliance for Safe Housing 28. Kathy Zeisel, Director, Special Legal Projects, Children’s Law Center 29. Stephanie McGill, Founder, The SOLE TRAIN 30. Gabrielle Majewski, Public Executive Director, DC Affordable Law Firm 31. Rachel Friedman, Coalition Lead, DC Coalition to End Sexual Violence 32. Michele Cole, Executive Director, Safe Shores — The DC Children’s Advocacy Center  33. Jocelyn Jacoby, Program Director and Psychotherapist, The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center 34. Tina Frundt, Founder, Courtney's House 35. Melissa Millar, Policy Director, Tzedek DC 36. Elizabeth Davis, Government Affairs Manager, Children's National Hospital 37. Penelope Spain, Chief Executive Officer, Open City Advocates 38. Christina Jackson, Executive Director, Washington Council of Lawyers 39. Indira Henard, Executive Director, DC Rape Crisis Center 40. Witness A, Public Witness 41. Jodi Ovca, Founder, Executive Director, Access Youth 42. Santos Amaya, Public Witness GOVERNMENT WITNESS 1. Jennifer Porter, Director, Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants