Equal Justice University 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and related technologies are used extensively by governments, employers, landlords, educators, and others to make key decisions about the lives of low-income people, usually with devastating consequences. This session will explore the ways AI is determining how low-income people work, live, learn, and survive--implicating substantive issue areas of benefits, employment, housing, education, domestic violence, and child welfare--and introduce ways advocates can identify and oppose them.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn to identify the various ways AI is used to make decisions about key aspects of low-income people’s lives.
2. Participants will learn the primary obstacles to effective advocacy involving AI-related issues.
3. Participants will learn the general legal claims applicable to AI-related issues.

Building on the first session, Innovating Injustice, this session will discuss in detail the various advocacy tools to fight back against harmful uses of AI across multiple dimensions, including fair hearings, affirmative litigation, narrative advocacy, public education, and community activation. The session will offer in-depth case examples, audience participation, and group exercises to build an enduring framework for tackling all sorts of AI-related issues our client communities are facing.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the latest policy proposals that implicate the harms AI causes low-income communities.
2. Participants will learn about the leading strategies to fight back against AI-related harms.
3. Participants will learn a method to analyze AI-related harms to inform advocacy strategies..

The session would be a mix of informative lecture and interactive segments. For the instruction, the presentation would focus on common use cases and probable benefits of AI for attorneys in the non-profit sector; on the risks associated with engaging with and using AI; and on the ethical considerations attorneys should make when engaging with AI depending on how it is used.

Learning Objectives:

1. Common Use Cases for AI in the Industry 
2.  Considerable Risks Associated with the Use of AI 
3.  Ethical Considerations During Use of AI

I have provided several of these sessions for the Washington County Bar Association since 2019. I teach practical yoga poses that can be done in an office to alleviate stress. I teach breathing techniques that can be utilized in all aspects of law practice. Attendees also learn the importance of meditation in trauma healing and how it can serve them and their clients.

Learning Objectives:

1. Yoga is accessible to every body and age.
2. Yoga can greatly benefit lawyers in high stress work.
3.    Understanding of neuroplasticity and trauma's effect on the brain.