Alicia Aiken, JD
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Lish is an experienced strategist and trial attorney. She is the Director of the Confidentiality Institute, a national policy and technical assistance project that supports helping professionals to protect privacy for violence survivors. She is also the Faculty Fellow at Practising Law Institute, the host of their podcast Pursuing Justice: The Pro Bono Files, and the creator of the interactive simulation Tight Budgets & Tough Choices: Poverty, Decisions, & Why Legal Aid Matters.
In 2016, Lish became the Faculty Fellow for Practising Law Institute’s Interactive Learning Center where she designs innovative programs that teach lawyers to work well with individual clients. Lish regularly strategizes with direct service non-profits, local coalitions, government entities, and professional organizations on a wide range of issues, including service delivery models, organizational structure, internal procedures, legal compliance, litigation strategy, policy advocacy, professional development, and distance learning design.
Lish attended the University of Michigan, where she received a Law degree (’95) and a Bachelor of Arts in English/History (’92). She is a Michigander by birth & family ties, but she was raised near the strawberry fields outside of Los Angeles, learned to appreciate food and the farmers that grow it in Vermont, and finally put down true roots in Chicago.
Favorite quote: “There never was a night begun in darkness, nor a single day begun in light” from the poem “How Stars Start” by Al Young
Favorite sport: Reading a novel under a tree
Secret skill: Making pasta from scratch
Preferred mode of transportation: Subway + my two feet
Curriculum vitae
Honorable Julie Kunce Field, JD
Founder, Confidentiality Institute
Honorable Julie Kunce Field, JD, founder of the Confidentiality Institute, is a nationally recognized leader on issues concerning confidentiality and privilege as they relate to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. In 2011, she was appointed to Colorado’s 8th Judicial District Court bench, where she was noted for her thoughtful and compassionate approach to cases, particularly those involving children.
As a judge, she created the one-of-a-kind Wellness Court, a model problem solving court that comprehensively addresses individuals with mental health issues who are caught up in the criminal justice system. She retired from the bench in 2021 to co-found the Consilium Institute, LLC.
Before her appointment to the bench, Judge Field served as a law professor and law clinic director at the University of Michigan, Washburn Law School, and the University of Denver College of Law where she supervised students on nationally significant family law, employment law, and civil rights cases. Judge Field founded a successful mediation and arbitration practice, and she is an acclaimed national trainer on family law, litigation practice, and mediation issues.
Julie Kunce Field, JD