Lisa Daugaard
{{Short description|American criminal justice reformer}}
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| education = University of Washington (BA)
Cornell University (MA)
Yale Law School (JD)
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| awards = 2019 MacArthur Fellowship
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Lisa Daugaard (born 1965/1966) is an American criminal justice reform activist. She is the director of the nonprofit organization Public Defender Association and a commissioner of the Community Police Commission in Seattle. She received a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship for her criminal justice reform work.
Early life and education
Daugaard was born in either 1965 or 1966,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-list.html|title=MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners for 2019: The Full List | date=September 25, 2019| access-date=September 25, 2019| website=The New York Times| first=Jennifer| last=Schuessler }} and raised in Seattle, Washington. She started college at the University of Washington when she was twelve years old.{{cite book|title=Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--and Won|first=Brandt|last=Goldstein|date=2006|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781416535157|pages=9–10}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Out|date=July 1, 1999|title=He Kissed a Girl: How a Journey through the Heyday of Identity Politics Led to a Straight Romance|first=Sara|last=Miles|pages=51–53, 93–95|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51}} She completed her B.A. degree in 1983. Daugaard started graduate school at Cornell University at age seventeen, initially studying political science and earning an M.A. degree in 1987, but after repeatedly being arrested and disciplined for her involvement in the campus South Africa divestment movement, she left her Ph.D. program to attend law school. She graduated from Yale Law School with a J.D. degree in 1995.
Career and legal work
After graduating from Yale Law School, Daugaard joined the American Civil Liberties Union, where she continued work on litigation regarding Haitian refugees held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base that she had begun at Yale.{{cite web|url=http://www.defender.org/content/lisa-daugaard|title=Lisa Daugaard|publisher=Public Defender Association|access-date=September 27, 2019}}{{cite book|title=Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and what to Do about it|publisher=Doubleday Canada|date=2011|first=Andy|last=Lamey|isbn=9780385662543|pages=[https://archive.org/details/frontierjusticeg0000lame/page/50 50]|url=https://archive.org/details/frontierjusticeg0000lame/page/50}} In 1996, she joined The Defender Association as an attorney. She was a Liman Fellow at the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law from 1998–99.{{cite web|url=https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/lisa-daugaard-95-named-2019-macarthur-fellow|title=Former Liman Fellow Lisa Daugaard '95 Named 2019 MacArthur Fellow|date=September 25, 2019 |publisher=Yale Law School|access-date=September 27, 2019}} During the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, Daugaard organized the legal defense of activists.
Daugaard started the Racial Disparity Project, a program in Seattle that addresses police use of racial information in law enforcement, in 2001.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/25/seattle-drug-program-lead-offenders-treatment-police|title=Seattle's sensible approach puts drug offenders into treatment, not jail|work=The Guardian|date=March 25, 2015|access-date=September 27, 2019|first=Nicky|last=Woolf}} Ten years later, she helped create Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), a program that diverts low-level offenders in King County, Washington, from the criminal justice system into the social services system.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seattle-lead-program_n_5697660|title=Change Of Habit: How Seattle Cops Fought An Addiction To Locking Up Drug Users|work=Huffington Post|date=August 28, 2014|access-date=November 7, 2019|first=Saki|last=Knafo}} She joined Seattle's Community Police Commission in 2013, first as co-chair, then as a commissioner.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.seattlemag.com/news-and-features/reformer-chief-meet-woman-working-solve-seattles-most-vexing-issues|title=Reformer-in-Chief: Meet the Woman Working To Solve Seattle's Most Vexing Issues|magazine=Seattle Magazine|date=February 1, 2018|first=Erica C.|last=Barnett}} {{Asof|2019}}, she is Executive Director of the Public Defender Association.
Recognition
Daugaard received a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship for her criminal justice reform work.{{cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-reform-advocate-receives-macarthur-genius-grant-it-renewed-my-hope-that-people-support-this-shift/|title=Seattle police-reform advocate receives MacArthur 'genius grant'|work=Seattle Times|date=September 25, 2019|first=Asia|last=Fields|access-date=September 26, 2019}} The award citation noted the measurable successes of LEAD, which have resulted in expansion of the LEAD program to other cities and tribal areas across the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1033/|title=Lisa Daugaard|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|access-date=September 26, 2019}}
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