D’Adre Cunningham (she/her), Washington Defender Asssoication's Incarcerated Parents Project Resource Attorney D’Adre is currently the Incarcerated Parents Project attorney at Washington Defender Association in Seattle, Washington. She formerly served clients for 15 years as a public defender at The Defender Association and its division of the King County Department of Public Defense. She spent five of those years as an Attorney Supervisor in the Dependency (or Family Defense) Unit. Her other legal experience includes representing children, youth, and parents in King County dependency court proceedings; defending children and youth in King County Juvenile Court criminal proceedings; defending indigent adults in Seattle Municipal misdemeanor proceedings & in King County Superior Court felony proceedings; and advocating for systemic reforms at The Racial Disparity Project. D’Adre is an alumna of the University of Washington School of Law. D'Adre is currently a member of Washington State Interpreter & Language Access Commission and has participated in the Children's Representaiton Standards workgroup for the Commission on Children in Foster Care.

Kathleen Creamer is the Managing Attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services of Phliadelphia, which uses a holistic family defense model to represent parents involved with the child welfare system. Prior to joining CLS, she served as Director of Legal Services at Our Place, DC, a women’s reentry nonprofit. She also served as a Senior Fellow for the Stoneleigh Foundation, spearheading a cross-agency project dedicated to Improving Reunification Outcomes for Children of Incarcerated Parents. Kathleen is a member of the Steering Committee for the American Bar Association’s National Alliance for Parent Representation and co-chair of the Communications Committee for the Family Justice Initiative.

Stephanie Taylor Project Director, Incarcerated Mothers Law Project, VOLS staylor@volsprobono.org; (347) 521-5735 Stephanie Taylor joined Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS) in April 2021 as Project Director of the Unemployed Workers Project. In June 2022, she relaunched VOLS’ Incarcerated Mothers Law Project as the newly-minted Project Director. As Director, Stephanie has rebuilt the IMLP in a trauma-informed, holistic manner. She oversees and mentors all IMLP cases and organizes legal clinics at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Taconic Correctional Facility. She has in the process of setting up a state-wide network of family law practitioners for referrals. Stephanie started her career at Legal Services for the Hudson Valley providing general practice legal services in their Elder Law Unit. She then moved to Queens Legal Services as a Staff Attorney in the Domestic Violence (DV) & Family Law Project. In 2012, Stephanie became the Deputy Director of both the DV & Family Law Project and the newly-formed Immigrant Rights Project. In 2015, she became the Director of the Immigrant Advocacy Project. In 2018 she joined Brooklyn Legal Services as the first Director of their Immigrants’ Rights & Advocacy Project, handling a wide array of affirmative and defensive humanitarian immigration matters. She led that unit for three years. Stephanie has a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a B.A. from the University of Florida. She is admitted to practice in the New York Appellate Division and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.