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Community-Based Legal Innovation: Research on Justice Worker Programs in Indian Country
Friday May 15, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
Mecklenburg 2
This session examines emerging community justice worker (CJW) programs in Indian Country as an evolution from Alaska Legal Services Corporation’s CJW program. Panelists will share research on program design, integration, and impact, highlighting how CJWs expand legal capacity in Alaska Native and American Indian communities and identifying priorities for future study.

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Cody Nelson

Executive Director, Anishinabe Legal Services
Cody Nelson is the Executive Director of Anishinabe Legal Services, a 501(c)(3) non-profit civil
legal aid law firm providing free legal assistance to low-income Native Americans residing on or
near the Leech Lake, White Earth, and Red Lake Nations in northern Minnesota. Cody
gra... Read More →
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Rebecca Sandefur

Professor, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University
Dr. Rebecca Sandefur is the Director of the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University and a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she founded and leads the Access to Justice Research Initiative. In 2018 she was named a MacArthur Fellow... Read More →
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Matthew Burnett

Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative, American Bar Foundation
Matthew Burnett is Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation (ABF), a visiting scholar with the Justice Futures Project at Arizona State University, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center... Read More →
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Sarah Carver

Managing Attorney, Center for Elder Law and Justice
Sarah Carver is Co-Director of Alaska Legal Services Corporation’s Community Justice Worker Resource Center (CJWRC). She started her legal career with ALSC as the sole staff attorney in the rural Nome, Alaska office. Since 2018, she has worked to build up the Community Justice Worker... Read More →
Friday May 15, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
Mecklenburg 2
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