In partnership with the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Better Tomorrow Speaker Series hosted a live, online conversation on the importance of prosecutorial reform. The program features San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm, federal public defender Minda Yamaga, and was moderated by Camille Nelson, Dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law. 

“If Hawaii—and the country as a whole—is to move away from a costly and corrosive overreliance on incarceration and toward a more sensible and equitable system of justice, then there is no greater task than to bring best practices into the offices of district attorneys,” notes Dean Nelson. “We are fortunate to be hosting this forum with our own reform-minded prosecuting attorney, Steve Alm, and with one of the most well-known progressive prosecutors in the country, Chesa Boudin. This promises to be a vital and dynamic conversation.”

Mahalo to our co-sponsors: UH’s College of Social Sciences, Scholars Strategy Network, and the William S. Richardson School of Law. Series sponsors include the Hawaii Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.