Carmen Best
In July, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan named Carmen Best as the city’s new police chief, calling the appointment “an important step in public safety and meaningful and lasting police reform.” In a city that has experienced endemic police morale issues—a court-appointed monitor only this year found the police department to be in compliance with a 2012 .
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Cristina Jiménez
The picture for immigration reform grew darker this year.
Stories about children separated from their parents by U.S. immigration authorities and the administration’s continuing anti-immigrant rhetoric dominated the news.
But among the bright spots was the organization known as United We Dream, which has spearheaded the cause of some 700,000 young .
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Elaine Mcmillion Sheldon
Filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s documentary Heroin(e), released last year, won national recognition in 2018, with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary and now an Oscar nomination.
Sheldon’s 39-minute Netflix film monitored the struggles of women suffering through the opioid crisis in Huntington, a small town in her native West Virgi.
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Emma González
Emma González became, for many Americans, the face of the movement for gun control in 2018.
She was an 18-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., when a gunman killed 17 people and severely wounded many others in a Valentine’s Day tragedy that added to the tragic toll taken by mass shootings in America.
With other.
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Kimberly Foxx
The first African-American woman to lead the Cook County State Attorney’s office in Chicago, Kimberly Foxx has focused on addressing the underlying causes of violent crime, which continues to push Chicago into the top national ranking for murders—even as homicide rates are declining in most cities around the country.
Foxx believes the place to star.
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Leann Bertsch
Leann Bertsch, director of the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation in North Dakota and also president of the Association of State Correctional Administrators, has been a leading proponent of ending solitary confinement in prison, as well as improving prison conditions for all inmates.
During 2018, she emerged as an influential voice for nat.
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Liz Ryan
Women have long been leaders in the national effort to change how courts and corrections officials treat young people who get in trouble with the law.
And in that list, Liz Ryan is often placed in the first rank.
A juvenile justice expert who founded the nationally recognized Campaign for Youth Justice (CFYJ), she has focused her efforts most recen.
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The Hon. Catherine Pratt
Women’s advocates have long argued that a key tactic in the fight against sex trafficking is to eliminate policies that effectively criminalize the young women and girls trapped by a practice that earns millions of dollars for the traffickers themselves.
Judge Catherine Pratthas turned her Superior Court in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton into an.
