NAPD 2024 Women's Virtual Conference

This session, presented by a team of experts, who are survivors, advocates, criminal defense lawyers, and a mitigation specialist, centers on the power of stories, identifies the deficits, and shares practical tools to bridge the gender justice gaps. We will engage participants with the wisdom from lived expertise in fighting for criminalized women. We will share the Center’s research and insights on narrative deficits in defending women and provide participants with a series of practical gender justice tools for defense teams. We, at the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, created these tools to be applied for a practical gender justice approach in a wide range of capital and non-capital cases. As survivors, advocates, and former public defenders at the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, our work in narrative construction and intersectional gender justice is applicable to a wide range of cases – whether misdemeanors or felonies -- where women are criminalized. Our resources are free for the public defense community. We will complete our session with a closing round of reflections from our expert panel.