Disrupting Bias and Building an Inclusive Mindset for Prosecutors will provide a brief overview of implicit bias and how it impacts the role of the prosecutor, including new legislation aimed to promote bias-reducing strategies. This training will also offer tools to build an inclusive mindset, helping prosecutors understand how to incorporate these strategies into their work. This training satisfies the California State Bar Elimination of Bias requirement for at least one credit hour focusing on implicit bias and the promotion of bias-reducing strategies to address how unintended biases regarding race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics undermine confidence in the legal system.

Eligible for 1 Hour of Elimination of Bias MCLE Credit in CA.

Speaker

Alana Mathews currently serves as an Assistant District Attorney on the Executive Team for the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office, where her duties include supervising the Human Trafficking and Mental Health units and coordinating MCLE trainings for the office. She is also an Adjunct Professor at McGeorge School of Law teaching and training on Implicit Bias and the Law and is the founder of the Racial Equity and Justice Summer Practicum program. Ms. Mathews has also served as a faculty member for the American Leadership Forum providing training on Implicit Bias, Bias Interventions, and Belonging and Inclusion strategies.

Ms. Mathews began her legal career as a deputy district attorney for Sacramento County before serving in Executive and Legislative appointed positions for the State California. Ms. Mathews earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from Spelman College and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) and a Master of Laws, (LL.M) in Governmental Affairs and Public from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.