Policing and Our Values Presented by Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI)

Maya Dukmasova Related Seminars and Products

Senior Reporter

Injustice Watch

Maya Dukmasova reports on judges, prisons, and the courts. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2021, Maya was a senior writer at the Chicago Reader, where she produced award-winning long-form features and investigative stories, as well as profiles, film reviews, and essays on a wide range of topics. Maya was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and spent much of her childhood in Appalachia. She moved to Chicago after completing a master’s degree in art history at the University of Cambridge and now lives on the Far North Side.

Arne Duncan Related Seminars and Products

Managing Partner

Emerson Collective

Arne Duncan served as U.S. Secretary of Education from January 2009 through December 2015 as part of the Obama Administration. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Duncan served as chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools. From 2001 to 2008, Duncan won praise for uniting the city’s stakeholders behind an education agenda that included opening 100 new schools; expanding after-school, summer learning, early childhood, and college access programs; dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers; and building public-private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

He currently leads Chicago CRED, a nonprofit trying to achieve a transformative reduction in gun violence in Chicago. Through partnerships with local business leaders, community organizers, and nonprofit groups, Duncan aims to provide outreach, therapeutic, education, and employment opportunities for the young men most likely to be engaged in gun violence. He is also the managing partner at Emerson Collective, an organization dedicated to removing barriers so people can live to their full potential. Secretary Duncan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1987, majoring in sociology. At Harvard he served as co-captain of the basketball team and was named a first team Academic All-American.

Arne is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, and co-chairs The Knight Commission. He also serves on the boards of Ariel Investments; Communities in Schools; Eat, Learn, Play; Edmentum; Education Advancement; ESS; Howard University; My Brother’s Keeper Alliance; National Association of Basketball Coaches; RingCentral; and Schoolhouse.world.

Ben Jones Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute

Pennsylvania State University

Ben Jones is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. His research explores what ethical principles should guide criminal justice policy and how to translate those principles into law and practice. He is co-editor with Eduardo Mendieta of The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement (New York University Press). He is the cofounder and coordinator of the Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI) supported by the American Philosophical Association. Before joining Penn State, he worked in the nonprofit sector on criminal justice, which included directing the campaign that repealed the death penalty in Connecticut.

Sharone R. Mitchell, Jr. Related Seminars and Products

Public Defender

The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender

Cook County Public Defender Sharone R. Mitchell, Jr., is a passionate advocate for the rights of everyone represented by the Public Defender's office and for reform to increase justice in the legal system and to keep communities safe. His six-year appointment began in April 2021. Mitchell began his legal career as an assistant public defender in Cook County, including assignments in the Civil, First Municipal, and Felony Trial Divisions. He later joined the Illinois Justice Project, one of the state’s leading criminal justice reform non-profits, becoming that organization’s director in 2019.

Joey Mogul Related Seminars and Products

Director of Movement Partnerships

Movement Law Lab

Joey Mogul is a movement lawyer, organizer, and educator who recently joined Movement Law Lab to become the Director of Movement Partnerships after devoting over 26 years at the People's Law Office (where Mogul remains of counsel). Mogul represents people who have suffered from police violence in their civil rights cases and defending individuals in criminal and capital cases, as well working with organizers in their campaigns for justice and liberation.

Mogul has sought justice for Chicago Police torture survivors for over 25 years, successfully representing Burge torture survivors in their criminal and federal civil rights litigation and securing legal representation for the Burge torture survivors in their post-conviction proceedings in 2014. Mogul also successfully presented the cases to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) in Geneva, Switzerland, obtaining a specific finding calling for the torturers to be held accountable in May of 2006.

Mogul drafted the original City Council ordinance providing reparations for the Chicago Police (Burge) torture survivors on behalf Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, an organization Mogul initiated and co-founded. On May 6, 2015, Chicago’s City Council passed unprecedented reparations legislation becoming the first municipality to provide systemic redress for racially motivated police violence.

Jennifer M. Page Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Professor

Center for Ethics and Institute of Philosophy at the University of Zurich

Jennifer M. Page is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Ethics and Institute of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, where she specializes in political philosophy and ethics. She was also the 2015-2016 Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. Her research areas include the ethics of policing and punishment, reparative justice, restorative justice, and critical philosophy of race. She has authored or co-authored articles like “Reparations for Police Killings” (Perspectives on Politics), “Defensive Killing by Police” (Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy), and “Truth and Reparation for the U.S. Imprisonment and Policing Regime” (Du Bois Review). She is currently finishing a book on reparations. 

Sam Schoenburg Related Seminars and Products

District Councilor

Chicago’s 19th Police District

Sam Schoenburg serves as a District Councilor in the 19th Police District on Chicago's North Side. A lawyer and former organizer for President Obama's campaign, Sam joined the coalition that helped establish District Councils and the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability. As one of the first elected District Councilors, Sam has focused on ensuring these new institutions put the community's voice first in policing and public safety. Sam lives with his husband in Lakeview and works as an attorney at the firm Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP.

Adam Hosein Related Seminars and Products

Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program

Northeastern University

Adam Hosein is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program, and Affiliate Professor of Law at Northeastern. He is currently a fellow with CLEAR (Center for Law, Equity, and Race) and works closely with the Center on Crime, Race, and Justice, especially on issues around policing and public safety. Prof. Hosein’s research is mainly in moral, political, and legal philosophy, with a special interest in areas of international concern and issues relating to race or gender. Before coming to Northeastern, Prof. Hosein was an Associate Prof. at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has held fellowships and visiting positions at Chicago Law, Harvard Philosophy, the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics, the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and the Université Catholique de Louvain. He holds a BA in philosophy, politics, and economics from Merton College, Oxford and a PhD from MIT. He recently published The Ethics of Migration: An Introduction (Routledge, 2019) and is currently
working on a book about discrimination, including anti-discrimination law, entitled Discrimination, Inclusion, and Social Progress (under contract with Oxford University Press).