Nicole P. Dyszlewski currently serves as the Head of Reference, Instruction, and Engagement at the RWU Law Library. She joined the staff in 2015 as the Research/Access Services Librarian having come from a public legislative library. She received a B.A. from Hofstra University, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar and the Rhode Island State Bar. Prior to becoming a law librarian, Nicole practiced real estate law. Her areas of interest are mass incarceration, access to justice, law library leadership, and engagement
Adam Earnheart is the Director, Self-Represented Litigants, for Tyler Technologies Courts and Justice Division. Adam joined Tyler Technologies in 1999 where he has held multiple roles leading teams of Project Managers and Attorneys in the implementation of Tyler’s Court software. The last 6 years Adam has lead the professional services teams for the Guide & File product. In this role he manages a team of legal professionals that build tools to increase Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants that cannot afford an attorney by helping them navigate their legal justice journey.
Education: B.B.A., Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University
Katharine Haldeman is the Resource Sharing and Collection Maintenance Manager at Boston University’s Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries. She started at Boston University in 2018 after graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 2017 with a B.A. in Classical Studies. She is currently working towards her MLIS at San Jose State University.
Suzanne Harrington-Steppen is the Associate Director of Pro Bono Programs and the Director of Summer Public Interest Externship Program. In addition to teaching, Suzanne supervises law students in a variety of pro bono projects through RWU Law’s innovative Pro Bono Collaborative. Suzanne received a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College and a J.D. from City University of New York School of Law. Prior to law school, Suzanne worked as a policy analyst for the California Food Policy Advocates and as a community organizer for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness.
Dan Jackson has directed the NuLawLab at Northeastern University School of Law since 2013. Dan is a 1997 graduate of Northeastern Law and a 1990 graduate of Northwestern University. Following a postgraduate clerkship with The Hon. Hugh H. Bownes at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Dan worked for 13 years with the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, ultimately serving as the firm’s director of attorney development after practicing in the employment law group. Prior to law school, Dan worked as a designer for theater. He continues to do so, most recently with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and The Provincetown Theater.
Jessica Lundgren is a senior law librarian at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library in Augusta, Maine. Established by statute as a service office of the Maine Legislature, the Library provides legal and governmental information services to the people of Maine, their government, and the legal community
John Mayer has been the Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) since 1994. CALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of 198 US law schools that conducts applied research in computer-mediated legal education and publishes over 1200 tutorials in 40 different legal subject areas for law schools, law firms and others interested in learning about the law.
CALI also publishes Creative Commons law books at elangdell.cali.org. CALI is also the developer of A2J Author which is used by courts, legal aid and law schools to automate legal processes and court forms for self representing litigants.
Mr. Mayer has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Northwestern University and a Masters of Science in Networks and Telecom from the Illinois Institute of Technology and has worked in legal education for over 30 years.
Attorney Jennifer Shukla is the Director of Access to Justice Initiatives at the CT Bar Association. She is responsible for developing and coordinating the CBA’s initiatives on improving access to the legal system for indigent and underserved individuals, as well as participating in related legislative and public policy advocacy. She is also the Connecticut Administrator for the American Bar Association’s Free Legal Answers program.
Attorney Shukla is a Connecticut native that earned bachelor's degrees in finance and psychology at the University of Connecticut, summa cum laude, and a JD at Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. She is admitted to the state bar of Connecticut and numerous federal courts. Attorney Shukla has observed the obstacles facing various people in our legal system firsthand as a litigator. In addition to having practiced in corporate law and family law, she has also had extensive experience working with underserved populations, including individuals with low or no income, inmates, homeless, non-native speakers, and elderly clients. She is a mother of three children.
Quinten Steenhuis is a clinical fellow and adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School in the Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. Between 2008 and 2020, Quinten was a senior housing attorney, systems administrator, and developer at Greater Boston Legal Services. He currently teaches courses including Legal Technology for Small Firm Practice and Lawyering in the Age of Smart Machines.
Quinten’s signature projects include MADE, the Massachusetts Defense for Eviction tool which he conceived and created at Greater Boston Legal Services, and Court Forms Online, a COVID-19 emergency response collaboration at Suffolk Law School involving an international team of participants. In 2021, Quinten Steenhuis was named a "Legal Rebel" by the American Bar Association.
Quinten has been a professional programmer and web application developer since 2001. His work focuses on social justice and addressing the access to justice gap, particularly with the use of legal technology. In addition to his position at the Suffolk LIT Lab, Quinten works with nonprofits and law firms as the founder of Lemma Legal Consulting. Quinten also serves as an appointed member of the City of Cambridge’s Recycling Advisory Committee, the Access to Justice Commission’s working group on housing, and is the long-time president of a Scrabble club in Somerville, MA. He received his B.Sc. in Logic and Computation with an additional B.Sc. in Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University and J.D. from Cornell Law School.
Quinten’s technology projects can be viewed on GitHub and on his personal website (nonprofittechy.com)
Mike VanderHeijden is a reference librarian at Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library, where he’s worked since 2011. He coordinates reference services for the law library and teaches a class on corporate legal research. Before coming to Yale, he held a variety of positions including Research Services manager at a DC law firm, advocate for people with disabilities, house painter, and organic farm volunteer. He currently spends too much time on weekends doing his own house painting and gardening. He’s got an MLS from the University of Maryland, a JD from Northeastern, and a BA in political science and environmental studies from Muhlenberg College.
Jackie Waters has provided IT program and project leadership in the private and public sectors for more than 20 years. From 2012 until 2016, she assumed responsibility for leading the project teams at the NH Judicial Branch (NHJB) in their successful launch of the NH e-Court Program by implementing mandatory statewide attorney and SRL e-Filing for three Circuit Court case types. Ms. Waters returned to the NHJB in 2017 as the NH e-Court Program Director. In that role, Ms. Waters introduced robust program management best practices in NH e-Court governance processes, product acquisition and vendor management strategies, budget and funding mechanisms, and strategic planning. Ms. Waters also led the effort to implement mandatory e-Filing in the NH Supreme Court for attorneys and self-represented litigants. Since then, Ms. Waters has directed efforts to expand e-filing to include all civil and criminal cases in the NH Superior Court.
At the request of the Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court, Ms. Waters is shifting focus in 2021 to include diversity and inclusion initiatives as the Access and Community Engagement Coordinator. Her role is to assist in forming and developing the NH Judicial Branch Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee and function as a permanent liaison between the NH courts and the NH Access to Justice Commission. She also represents the NHJB in special projects such as the National Center for State Courts’ Blueprint for Justice and as a conference speaker for the National Association of Court Management, the Self-representation Litigation Network, and the New England Regional COSCA conferences.
Alex West is the Supervising Attorney at SouthCoast Fair Housing, serving the south coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He has previously served as an AmeriCorps Legal Advocate at South Coastal Counties Legal Services in Fall River, Massachusetts and as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow with the Veterans Project at the Northwest Justice Project in Seattle, addressing the legal needs of homeless veterans. Prior to law school, he was a social worker at YouthCare in Seattle, working at a transitional home for queer and trans youth. Alex received a JD from Seattle University in Washington State and a BA in Sociology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Zach Zarnow is a Principal Court Management Consultant at the National Center for State Courts, focusing on increasing access to justice. He has worked with courts and their partners at the local and national level on civil legal system modernization and process simplification. Zach is co-creator and a co-host of Tiny Chats. Prior to joining NCSC he was Program Director at the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, where he led an overhaul of data collection, grant management procedures, and outcome measurements and designed and launched the Illinois Armed Services Legal Aid Network, which he still manages. His dog is named Smudge and she is as cute as she sounds.