Karen Westwood is Director of the Hennepin County Law Library in Minneapolis, MN. Her background is in law firm, government and academic law libraries. She also practiced law for a short time doing corporate and securities work. She has a J.D. from Hamline University School of Law (now Mitchell Hamline School of Law) and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.

Stephanie Beaugh, Access to Justice Projects Counsel at the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA), serves as staff liaison to the Self-Represented Litigation, Technology, and Accessibility Committees of the Access to Justice Commission. In this role, she also manages the Lawyers in Libraries and Law Talks programs and provides support for the Legal Help Access Points. A proud native of New Orleans, Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Criminal Justice minor from Loyola University New Orleans. Before attending law school, she gained over nine years of experience as a legal assistant at a small litigation firm. Stephanie earned her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she contributed to the Loyola Law Review, publishing two articles and serving as a Casenote/Comment Editor. She was also an active Moot Court staff member. After passing the Louisiana Bar Exam, she clerked for nearly four years at both Orleans Parish Civil District Court and Louisiana's Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. Before joining the LSBA’s Access to Justice team in 2020, Stephanie served as the Program Director at Louisiana Appleseed, managing various projects and volunteers. Outside of her professional work, she is an active member of the National Lawyers Guild and the League of Women Voters. She has a long history with the New Orleans Krewe of Orpheus, having served as a Lieutenant for 15 years, and volunteers with New Orleans Bulldog Rescue and other animal rescue organizations.

Pauline Afuso is the Public Services Librarian for the Alameda County Law Library, and she provides reference services to self-represented litigants and all patrons needing legal information. She received her MLS from UCLA, and her JD from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. In addition to working in county law libraries for the past 12 years, she also was a product developer at Thomson Reuters and oversaw the development, release, and maintenance of several research features for westlaw.com. She spends her free time experimenting with recipes on the NY Times Cooking App and listening to Minnesota Wild hockey games on the radio.