Co-Chairs: Serge Martinez and Sarah Ludington

Committee Members:  Caitlin Barry, Andy Budzinski, Davida Finger,  Melina Healey, Ronie Hochbaum, Kendall Kerew, Kate Kruse, Robert Kuehn, Mary Lynch, Joy Radice, Michael Vastine, Ian Weinstein, Cindy Wilson, Ruhan Nagra, Sarah Wolking

This Committee advocates in a variety of external venues on issues of importance to clinical legal education. Its work includes tracking proposals in the ABA and state bar commissions that regulate and affect legal education and clinical legal education. In addition, the ABA and Bar Standards Advocacy Committee coordinates CLEA's public comments and creates an organized and multi-faceted response on issues affecting legal education.

Chair: Ruhan Nagra and Gautam Hans

Committee Members:  Elizabeth Grant, D’lorah Hughes, Genevieve Mann, Talia Peleg, Cindy Wilson

The primary responsibility of the Awards Committee is to solicit nominations for and select the recipients of three awards: (1) Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers; (2) Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project; and (3) Outstanding Student (one student per law school). The Committee also periodically reviews the eligibility requirements and rules for the awards and proposes changes, as needed.

Co-Chairs:  Benjie Louis and Lauren Rogal 

Committee Members: Kaci Bishop, Laila Hlass, Carrie Kaas, Allison Korn, Emily Suski, Anna Cominsky, Megan Bess, Genevieve Mann, Nakia Davis, Crystal Grant, Reena Parikh

The Best Practices Committee was formed shortly after CLEA’s 2007 publication of Best Practices for Legal Education. The Committee commissioned a second Best Practices book, Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World, which was published by LexisNexis in 2015. The committee continues share best practices in pedagogy to the experiential community through webinars, conferences, trainings and online resources.

Chair:  Jeff Baker and Davida Finger

Committee Members: Amanda Cole, Tanya Cooper, Ronie Hochbaum, Madalyn Wasilczuk, Shanda Sibley

This Communications Committee is charged with proposing and developing CLEA’s communications policies and strategies, utilizing a variety of modes that currently include the organization’s website, Facebook page, Newsletter and Best Practices Blog.

Co-Chairs:  Kara Finck and Talia Peleg

Committee Members: Jodi Balsam, Eden Harrington, Margaret Johnson, Mike Murphy, Jeffrey Pokorak, Bob Probasco, Christina Scott

The Conference Committee oversees the application process for organizations that seek support for regional and national conferences. In 2017, pursuant to the Strategic Plan, the Conference Committee will be charged with undertaking several new initiatives, in collaboration with the Communications and Best Practices in Pedagogy Committees.

Chair: Reena Parikh and Crystal Grant

Committee Members:  Jenna Cobb, Shobha Mahadev, Sarah Shalf, Kirby Tyrell

The Elections Committee is a mandatory committee of CLEA and is responsible for carrying out the elections requirements in CLEA’s bylaws. Under the bylaws, the Elections Committee is responsible for soliciting nominations, verifying eligibility of candidates and voters, creating and distributing ballots, overseeing the ballot count, and certifying and announcing election results.

Co-Chairs:  Dena Bauman and Kate Devlin Joyce

Committee Members:  Jodi Balsam, Kendall Kerew, Denise Platfoot Lacey, Matthew McGovern, Ashley Menendez, Melissa Redmon, Amy Sankaran, Anne Sidwell, June Tai, Cindy Wilson

The Externship Committee advocates on behalf of CLEA and its members with respect to issues related to field placement programs. For example, together with CLEA’s ABA and Bar Standards Advocacy Committee, the Externship Committee represents CLEA in connection with ABA accreditation standards and state bar admissions requirements that have an impact on field placement programs. In addition, the Committee promotes increased awareness within the legal education community about the similarities, differences, and overlap between externships and law clinics.

Co-Chairs:  Valeria Gomez and Jennifer Saffstrom

Committee Members:  Jocelyn Cazares Willingham, Lia Sifuentes Davis, Jennifer Fernandez, Anju Gupta, Gautam Hans, Shobha Mahadev, Aimee Maldonado, Tomica Saul

The Committee on Faculty Equity and Inclusion is tasked with proposing ways to reverse the diversity crisis within clinical legal education. The Committee will work to raise and educate various stakeholders about the lack of racial/ethnic diversity among clinical professors and propose avenues for change.

Co-Chairs: Sarah Shalf and Tomica Saul

Committee Members: Valeria Gomez, Talia Peleg, Nakia Davis

The Membership Committee serves as the liaison between the CLEA board’s work and CLEA members. The committee updates the status of its members every year and responds to members’ comments and questions with respect to CLEA’s work. The committee also prepares membership materials, and helps members stay connected to the work of the organization and members of the clinical community.

Co-Chairs: Paul Radvany and Amy Sankaran

Committee Members:  Kathryn Banks, Crisanne Hazen, Praveen Kosuri, Sue Schechter, Shanda Sibley, Anita Sinha, Kele Stewart, Wendy Vaughn, Danny Schaffzin, Amy Sankaran, Chante Brantley, Kate Raven, Gautam Hans, Larry Stein

The primary work of the New Clinicians Committee is to offer support, orientation, and an introduction to clinical education to those who are new to clinical teaching. Committee members plan and present CLEA’s New Clinicians Conference every two years (in odd years), before the start of the AALS Clinical Conference, and developed a series of workshops designed for new clinicians during the two most recent national Externships Conferences. Working with CLEA’s Advocacy Training Committee, the New Clinicians Committee will continue to explore other ways in which it might help to educate and train new clinicians.

Chair:  Allison Wang

Committee Members: Susan Donovan, Ronie Hochbaum, Jennifer Safstrom

The CLEA Newsletter Committee publishes two issues each year. Besides featuring reports on CLEA's advocacy work and announcing clinicians' good news, including promotions, new arrivals, transitions, awards, honors, books and publications, the committee aims to publish shorter articles on clinical teaching and creative writing on social justice topics, and evolve into a venue where clinicians can publish shorter articles that might count towards tenure requirements in schools that recognize broader definitions of "scholarship" for clinicians.