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HMB BrewCo’s Brews and Views ~ A Discussion About The Future Of Criminal Justice Reform
June 8th, 2023 @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Brews & Views welcomes Amy Bach, the Founder and CEO of Measures for Justice, for a discussion on how she plans to achieve her vision of a criminal justice system that is transparent, accessible, and accountable through data.
Measures for Justice is leading a movement to change the future of criminal justice by developing tools that help communities, including the institutions that serve them, reshape how the system works. Let’s Be Clear: Criminal justice data has a story to tell. Join us for an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming national campaign telling the human stories behind criminal justice data.
SPEAKER
Amy Bach, Founder and CEO of Measures for Justice
Amy Bach has been the Chief Executive Officer of Measures for Justice since 2011. She founded the organization as a follow-up to her acclaimed book, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, which won the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. In June 2011, Echoing Green, a premier seed investor for social entrepreneurs, selected Amy as a Fellow out of 3,000 candidates worldwide to support the launch of Measures for Justice. Following that, she was named a Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur. For her work on Ordinary Injustice, Amy received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University. Amy was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School and is a graduate of Stanford Law School. In 2012, she taught Criminal Law during the spring semester at the University of Buffalo Law School as a Visiting Professor. In 2019, she won the Academy of Criminal Justice Science’s Leadership and Innovation Award and the Charles Bronfman Prize. Amy lives in Rochester, NY, where the organization is based.
MODERATOR
Lenny Mendonca
Moderator, Co-founder of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, Former Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School.
Admission and snacks are complimentary.
Beer, wine, and other beverages will be available for sale at the event.
Our monthly or bi-monthly, free speaker series tackles everything from environmental issues and economic development to social change and politics. Started by Lenny Mendonca, the founder and owner of Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, Brews and Views serves as both a free public forum and philanthropy; part of the evening dining proceeds benefit the Cabrillo Education Foundation.
