MILS Board of Directors

Officers

 

Stephanie Lewis

Co-President

Retired Attorney
LiveWellFlow | Founder-MIndfulness & Wellness Coach & Instructor
slewis@livewellflow.com
https://livewellflow.com

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Alexis Firehawk

Co-President

Partner at Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen

Alexis.Firehawk@carpenterhazlewood.com

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Laurie Cappello
Executive Director

Chapter Division &
Communications Division Chair

Co-Chair, New England Chapter

Former Director of Well-Being at Mintz

EMAIL | LINKEDIN

Alexandra "Cookie" Echsner-Rasmussen
Secretary

Chair, Florida Chapter

Attorney in Mass Torts and Wellness Committee Co-Chair
Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis, and Overholtz, PLLC
https://www.awkolaw.com/

Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern, Florida
AER Counseling
https://lawganic.com/

EMAIL | LINKEDIN

Rakim Solomon
Treasurer

Assistant Trust Officer/Vice President, The Goldman Sachs Trust Company of Delaware.

EMAIL | LINKEDIN


Managing Board

Heidi Brown

Associate Dean for Upper Level Writing / Professor of Legal Writing / New York Law School

heidi.brown@nyls.edu

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Austin Charles 

Alston & Bird
austincharles.info 

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Robert Chender
Chair, International Division

Counsel, Seward & Kissel, New York
Chenderr@gmail.com 

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Artemis Evangelidis
Australia Chapter Co-Chair; Chapters & Membership Committees

Founder, Aipeia Consulting;Founder & Director, Centre for Conscious Leadership;Head of Learning Transformation, Law Institute of Victoria

aevangelidi@aipeia.com

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Bella Dilworth
Chair, DE&I Collaborative

Served as criminal defense attorney with the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office for 32 years

EMAIL | LINKEDIN

Monique Gonzalez
Academic Sub-Committee

law.lsu.edu; Assistant Dean and Director for the Library and Information Technology Services LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

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Tracy Kepler

CNA, Director of Risk
Control Consulting
tracy.kepler@cna.com 

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Nathalie Martin

Nathalie is the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law. 

martin@law.unm.edu

Emily Nagisa Keehn

Assistant Dean for Law Student Affairs, University of San Diego School of Law

 enkeehn@gmail.com

Judi Cohen
Chair, Teachers Collective

Lecturer, Berkeley Law
Founder, Warrior One:
Mindfulness for the Legal Mind
Judi@WarriorOne.com
www.warriorone.com

Erin Gleason Alvarez
Communications - LinkedIn Back-up

Director of the Mediation Practicum and
Amelia A. Gould Representation in Mediation Clinic
Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University

Adjunct Professor of Law
St. John's University School of Law

EMAIL

Kaori Kenmotsu

Assistant Professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in the Dispute Resolution Institute

kaori.kenmotsu@mitchellhameline.edu

Michele Lomax
DEI Collaborative, Teachers Collective

michele@tamaraholder.com

Karen Munoz
Teachers Collective

Dolan Law, Co-Chair of the CBA Well-Being & Mindfulness Committee

kmunoz@dolanlegal.com

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Brian Pappas
Chair, Nominating Committee

pappasb@law.msu.edu 

Tatiana Posada
Chair, Law Student Division

Ingrid Benninghoff Prados
Chair, Latin America Chapter

Christina Sava
Teachers Collective

Counsel, Holon Law Partners, LLP 

csava@holonlaw.com

Katarzyna Przyluska-Ciszewska
Chair, European Chapter

Lynn Su
Teachers Collective & Academic Division 

Dean for Advocacy and Co-Curricular Programs/Professor of Law/ New York Law School 

lynn.su@nyls.edu

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Scott Rogers

Founder and Director, Institute for Mindfulness Studies
Founder and Director, University of Miami School of Law’s Mindfulness in Law Program
Co-Founder and Co-Director of University of Miami’s Mindfulness Research & Practice Institute

SRogers@law.miami.edu 
www.law.miami.edu/faculty/scott-l-rogers

Tamar Schwartz
Academic Division & Teachers Collective 

Professor of Law, Legal Practice, University of Richmond School of Law

tschwartz@richmond.edu

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Rachel Wohl 
Managing Board Member,
At-Large

Mediators Beyond Borders
International Mindfulness Teacher rachel.wohl.solutions@gmail.com

Whitney Harvey

Founder of The Self Coached Lawyer, a coaching and consulting practice.

whitney@theselfcoachedlawyer.com

Jodi Klagos
Wisconsin Chahpter Co-Chair; Communications, Academic Divison & Retreat Planning

Associate Attorney, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. and Co-Chair, Wisconsin Chapter 

jklagos@gklaw.comder.com

Tracy Meyers
Teachers Collective / Retreat Planning

Clinical Psychologist, Certified Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Teacher,Yoga Therapist,Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, Massachusetts  (www.lclma.org)

tracey@lclmla.org


Advisory Board

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Lisle Baker

Professor of Law, Suffolk U. Law School, Boston

lbaker@suffolk.edu

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Jonathan Beitner

Certified Coach
Chair, ABA CoLAP Committee

jonathan.beitner@gmail.com

LINKEDIN

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Shayla Bowles
Chair, Membership Committee

Member, DEI Collaborative
Associate Attorney, Peebles Kidder Bergin & Robinson, LLP
sbowles@ndnlaw.com

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Judge Butch Childers (Ret.)   

Childers Arbitration & Mediation Services mediator@judgechilders.com

bchild33@gmail.com

www.judgechilders.com

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Brenda Fingold
Co-Chair, New England Chapter

Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Brown University Mindfulness Center and UMass Medical School Center for Mindfulness

brenda_fingold@brown.edu www.brendafingold.com

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Steve Hornsby

Retired Tennessee judge
Former Tennessee Deputy Commissioner for the Juvenile Justice Division
Certifications in leadership and life coaching, Coach for Life
Developmental Coaching+Consulting, Your Conscious Life

stevehornsby@mac.com  

Rhonda Magee
Advisory Board

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Patrick Palace (WA)
Advisory Board

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Cindy Pensoneau
Chair, Alternative Spring Break

cindypensoneau@gmail.com  

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Cliff Rosky
Co-Chair, Academic Division

Professor, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney
College of Law 

clifford.rosky@law.utah.edu  

LINKEDIN

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Julie Sandine

MILS Secretary - 2017-2023

Chair, Tennessee Bar Association Attorney
Well-Being Committee - 2017-2021

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs,
Vanderbilt Law School, 2002-2015

jzanolli.sandine@gmail.com 

LINKEDIN

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Lori Wald  

Mindfulness Coach and Facilitator
Intentional Lawyer, Nothing Doing
Loriwald1@gmail.com

Michael Zimmerman  

Zimmerman Booher PLLC,
Appellate Attorney
mzimmerman@zbappeals.com

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Susan Wawrose

Licensed Professional Counselor, Cedarwood Counseling Services

Professor of Lawyering Skills (retired), University of Dayton School of Law

swawrose@gmail.com
www.cedarwoodcounselingservices.com

LINKEDIN

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Danae Weidemannn

BARBRI, Inc. Regional Vice President

Danae.Weidemann@Barbri.com

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Emeritus Board

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Donn Kessler

Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Div. I (Ret.)

donnloopie@gmail.com 

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Richard Reuben

James Lewis Parks Professor of Law and Journalism
University of Missouri School of Law

Leonard Riskin

Harris H. Agnew Visiting Professor of
Dispute Resolution at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

l-riskin@law.northwestern.edu