Daria Fisher Page teaches and directs the Community Empowerment Law Project in the legal clinic at Iowa Law.  Her students represent individuals, nonprofits, and organizations working to strengthen their communities, create economic opportunity, and advance social justice in matters ranging from entity formation and strategic planning to coalition building and the design of advocacy plans.  Her research and scholarship currently focus on access to, and experiences of, justice; meaningful community engagement; and legal education reform.

Ryan T. Sakoda is an Assistant Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His research focuses on the empirical analysis of crime and criminal justice policy. Most recently, he has written on the use of solitary confinement and the effects of post-release supervision and probation.

Sakoda joined the Berkeley Law faculty after teaching at the University of Iowa College of Law. Previously, he worked at the Boston public defender’s office as a staff attorney where he represented indigent criminal defendants facing misdemeanor and felony charges from arrest through final disposition. Before his work as a staff attorney, Sakoda was a Liman Public Interest Fellow, also at the Boston public defender’s office, where he advised and represented clients on housing cases that arose from arrests, criminal charges, or past criminal convictions. 

Brian Farrell is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Law and Human Rights, Associate Director of the UI Center for Human Rights, and directs the undergraduate Human Rights Certificate program. He is the director of Iowa Law’s Citizen Lawyer Program and also serves as an adjunct lecturer in the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway. He teaches international law, criminal law, and human rights courses. Professor Farrell was a co-founder of the Innocence Project of Iowa and member of the Iowa Judicial Branch Court Navigators Pilot Project Task Force.