MANAGING PARTNER

Jenipher is a civil movement and human rights attorney and Managing Attorney of For the People | A People’s Legal Office, LLC. Jenipher began her career in the New Orleans office of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) through the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Harvard University and the City of New Orleans Office of Independent Police Monitor (OPM). Her work challenging the system of mass incarceration has resulted in binding affirmative decisions regarding the constitutional rights of prisoners in the U.S. Jenipher litigates complex civil litigation cases involving the rights of political prisoners, employment discrimination, and law enforcement/correctional officer misconduct. Her work in litigation and in the community have been recognized by Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) and Denver Public Schools (DPS).

As a clinical law professor, Jenipher has instructed law students regarding the rights of prisoners, movement lawyering, professional identity formation, and has been published domestically and abroad serving as Editor in Chief of the National Lawyers Guild Law Review. Jenipher currently joint chairs the Mass Incarceration Committee of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). She serves on the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Federal Advocates (FFA) and has been recognized as one of Denver's 40 Under 40 young professionals. Jenipher is a proud board member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) and is a recipient of the National Black Lawyers Top 100, Top 40 Under 40 Black Lawyers. She also received extensive training in contemplative practice and social justice as informed by the perennial tradition, receiving a certificate from the renowned Center for Action & Contemplation (CAC).

FEDERAL BAR ADMISSIONS

Supreme Court of the United States

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of New Mexico

United States District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Co- Chair Mass Incarceration Committee -National Lawyers Guild

Board of Directors-Faculty of Federal Advocates | Co-Chair DEI Committee

Board of Directors - National Conference of Black Lawyers

Project for Integrating Law, Spirituality, and Politics (PISLAP)

Executive Committee-American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Balance Section

Advisory Board - Journey Space

EDUCATION

Bennett College for Women

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

DIRECTOR OF LITIGATION, ADVOCACY, & STRATEGY-SENIOR PARALEGAL

Andy is a natural rights advocate and former jailhouse lawyer. After being acquitted on drug charge in a bench trial, Andy was determined to improve conditions for himself.

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in paralegal studies from Lewis University. After graduating, Andy worked as an activist during the foreclosure crisis. In 2012, Andy was elected vice president of the DuPage County NAACP. He is founder of the National Coalition for Prisoner Voting Rights, and a member of the National Lawyers Guild as well as the National Police Accountability Project.

Williams has courageously sought to challenge mass incarceration and legalized slavery. Whether its formerly incarcerated right to bear arms, Fair Housing violations, prisoners right to vote, or the prison-labor exception to the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of slavery, a provision he argues violates not only the antislavery principle but also the First, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments.

MOVEMENT ENGAGEMENT & CONSULTANT

Kalonji Jama Changa is a seasoned organizer who has worked on various social justice fronts. Kalonji is founder of the anti imperialist organization FTP Movement and the multimedia platform Black Power Media. He is an author and filmmaker and is currently working with veteran freedom fighters to build a United Front Against Fascism.

LAW FELLOW

Zane McNeill, a 3L at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, has previously volunteered as an editor for the Activist History Review, Arissa Media Group, Green Theory & Praxis Journal, and the Institute of Critical Animal Studies. He is deeply committed radical to legal scholarship, which integrates movement lawyering principles and praxis-informed scholarship with a focus on social justice organizing. In 2024, he co-authored an article titled "Grindr and Privacy Concerns of LGBTQ+ People in the United States and the European Union," published in the NLG Review" and is looking forward to collaborating with other activist-scholars and legal workers to advance work that informs social movements and disrupt the legal field.