Chesa Boudin

November 18, 2021 | San Francisco’s District Attorney, former public defender, Rhodes scholar

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin poses outside his office in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. Boudin took office as district attorney in San Francisco a year ago as part of a politically progressive wave of prosecutors committed to seeking restorative justice over mass incarceration. But now the former deputy public defender is under fire for the deaths of two pedestrians on New Year's Eve who were run down in an intersection by a 45-year-old parolee. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was elected in 2019 on a platform of ending mass incarceration and mitigating racial disparities in law enforcement. He previously served as a Liman Fellow in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and is on the board of the Civil Rights Corps. He was a Rhodes Scholar, earned his JD from Yale Law School, and is the author of Gringo: Coming of Age in Latin America. He is the child of incarcerated parents.

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Rethinking Prosecution: Innovative Approaches to Safety, Crime, and Justice

November 18, 2021

Special Guests: Steve Alm, Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney; Minda Yamaga, Assistant Federal Defender, Hawai‘i. Moderator: Camille Nelson, Dean, William S. Richardson School of Law.

Sponsors: College of Social Sciences, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, Scholars Strategy Network, William S. Richardson School of Law