December 6, 2024 – 9th Biannual Utah Crime, Justice, and Equity Student Conference
9th Biannual
Utah Crime, Justice, and Equity Student Conference
Friday, December 6, 2024
9:00am to 4:00pm
Salt Lake Community College, Larry Miller Campus
Public, Safety, Education and Training Center (PSET) Building
2nd Floor
Address:
9750 South 300 West. Sandy, UT, 84070
Parking is Free.
Free and open to the public.
Calling Utah undergraduate and graduate students
submit proposals to present or have posters here:
https://forms.office.com/r/bSFYptTx1r
Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2024
Panel Room 1: 211
Panel Room 2: 215
Panel Room 3: 217
Panel Room 4: 278
Lunch and Awards Room: 262
Keynote Room: 276
Political Cartoons: Elevator Hall
Agency and Organizations’ Booths Room: 207
The Biannual Utah Crime, Justice, and Equity Conference, founded in 2019, hosted and sponsored by academic departments, colleges, universities, student clubs and nonprofits, is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in Utah to present within the field of justice studies, criminology, criminal justice, peace studies, and conflict studies. The purpose of this conference is to promote — scholarship, respect, community engagement, intellectual discovery, research, networking, collaboration, learning, innovation, inclusion, and a more educated democratic citizenship for a peaceful world.
SCHEDULE
(Based on USA Mountain Time)
9:00am – 4:00pm
Session One 9:00am-10:00am
Zoom Room
Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Antonette Gray, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
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*Q and A after each 15 min. student presentation
Room Four Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Stephanie L. Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
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9:50am-10:00am – Welcoming and Introduction
Room: Cecile Delozier, Associate Dean, Institute for Public Safety, Salt Lake Community College
Session Two
10:00am – 11:00am
Zoom Room Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Antonette Gray, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
ROOM ONE: Criminology
Chair: David Robles, Assistant Professor
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ROOM FOUR Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Stephanie L. Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
Session Three
11:00am – 12:00pm
Zoom Room Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Antonette Gray, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
ROOM ONE: Criminology
Chair: David Robles, Assistant Professor
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ROOM FOUR Alternate Light Source (ALS) Imaging Workshop
Chair: Stephanie L. Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
Session Four 12:00pm-1:00pm
Zoom Room Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Antonette Gray, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
Elevator Hallway Political Cartoon Exhibits
LUNCH
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12:00pm to 1:00pm
Facilitated by:
Pizza and there will be Vegan Options and Juice (For Free
AWARDS
Room: 12:45pm-1:00pm
Recognizing the Outstanding Criminal Justice Awards
Chairpeople: Professor Stephanie Hoffman and Professor David Robles, Salt Lake Community College
Outstanding Academic Achievement:
This biannual award is for a graduating criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has the highest GPA overall. This award is an objective award that does not have a nomination process and is determined by comparing all GPAs of criminal justice student majors that are graduating that academic semester.
Outstanding Inclusivity and Equity Achievement:
This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has an active commitment and engagement in direct advocacy toward justice, equity, and inclusion of a marginalized segment of society such as, but not limited to, People of Color, immigrants, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, those incarcerated, women, youth, survivors, unsheltered, economically disadvantaged people, nonhuman animals, and the environment. We recognize that oppression exists, and that action needs to be taken to address inequity and injustices in society.
Outstanding Service Achievement:
This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has an active commitment and engagement in serving voluntarily, and not as a paid job or internship, within the community at a government agency or social service nonprofit organization that is not religiously, or political party affiliated. Serving others and the community is a central part of justice and a healthy community.
Outstanding Health and Wellbeing Achievement:
This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community College that has an active commitment and engagement in personal fitness, health, and mental wellbeing. We want to support students and not shame students for taking care of themselves over academics. As schools have led to a high rate of student anxiety, depression, unhealthy dietary and physical habits, and suicide. Further, the field of criminal justice has fostered similar habits too. This person must regularly demonstrate in their personal life selfcare, such as, but not limited, exercising, involvement in organized athletic competitions, eating healthy, and seeking out counseling and advising.
Outstanding Rise Up Achievement:
This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community that has succeed against many personal social adversities, such as death in the family, unsheltered, drug use, incarceration, domestic violence, or theft.
Outstanding Scholarship Achievement Award:
This biannual award is for a criminal justice student at Salt Lake Community that engages in research, scholarship, organizing academic publications and events, and participates in furthering their knowledge, education, and learning through reading, writing, attending forums, clubs, organization, and watching films.
Session Five
1:00pm -2:00pm
Zoom Room Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Antonette Gray, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
ROOM FOUR Painting With Light (Laser Trajectories) Workshop
Chair: Stephanie L. Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
Session Six 2:00pm-3:00pm
ROOM FOUR Innocence Projects: The Devastating Implications of Wrongful Convictions
Chair: Stephanie L. Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
Keynote Talk
The Rape Recovery Center and Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
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Chair: Associate Dean, Cecile Delozier, Institute for Public Safety, Salt Lake Community College
Keynote: 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Q and A: 3:30pm to 3:45pm
Sonya Martinez-Ortiz, a proud Chicana, is the Executive Director of the Rape Recovery Center. Raised and living on Salt Lake City’s Westside, she acknowledges the spaces she occupies have always been indigenous lands. With a rich background spanning over two decades, Sonya has integrated trauma and justice-informed principles into her career. Her expertise encompasses nonprofit leadership, trauma informed practice, advocacy, equity and inclusion strategies, and community development.
As a therapist, Sonya practices from a somatic and feminist-multicultural approach integrating the wisdom of traditional medicine and honoring the impact of trauma on the body. She acknowledges clients as experts and honors their role as author of their own healing narrative.
Sonya, formerly an Assistant Clinical Professor, holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Utah and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She holds certificates from Northwestern Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management and Georgetown’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership.
An active community member, she passionately serves on various boards and commissions, including the Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission. In recognition of her outstanding leadership, Sonya was honored with the Utah Nonprofit Association’s 2022 Outstanding Nonprofit Leader Award. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to fostering sustainable and equitable programs while believing in the collective healing power of communities.
Saane Siale is a Bay Area, California native. She is the oldest child with one younger brother and two younger sisters. They are proud children of Tongan immigrant parents. She graduated from BYU in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Family Studies: Human Development with a triple minor in Civic Engagement, Gerontology, and Nonprofit Management. She is one of 5 organizers for an immigrant community group called “UT with All Immigrants” where they host rallies and events that support immigrants of all statuses. She runs an after-school program for Pacific Islander youth in West Valley with PIK2AR (Pacific Island Knowledge 2 Action and Resources) nonprofit. She loves being able to give back to her Pacific Islander community in this way.
She is currently pursuing her Masters in Social Work at the University of Utah. For her program, she is a therapist for older adults ages 63-84 where she gets to work with diagnoses related to dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other cognitively-impairing diseases. She currently works full time as the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Coordinator for the Rape Recovery Center. She is passionate about working with survivors of sexual violence because of her experience being a survivor herself. She loves fighting for the historically marginalized. Outside of work she loves spending quality time with friends and family playing card games, photography, singing, and traveling.