This CLE is designed for NAPABA lawyers who will be responding to hate crimes and hate incident victims who have filed complaints concerning their experiences. Those lawyers will be conducting intake and interviewing victims to assess the suitability of the matters presented for possible pro bono legal representation, or to provide direction to the victims as to the appropriateness of non-criminal justice legal remedies and other services or pathways to addressing their harms. The program will give an overview of what trauma is, understanding the historical traumas faced by anti-Asian hate victims, understanding the role of the lawyering for hate crimes victims, how to broach the subject of mental health supports in addition to legal remedies, and how to interact with victims to elicit needed evidence and information without exacerbating harm.

This program is approved for 1.0 hour of general CLE credit in Pennsylvania. This program is eligible for general CLE credit in the following jurisdictions: AK, AZ, CA, CT, DC, HI, ID, MA, MD, MI, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NY, SD. If you need CLE for a jurisdiction not listed above, you will need to self-apply with your jurisdiction. Please contact your state bar for further guidance on self-applying. 

• Sherry C. Wang, BA, MA, PhD| Associate Professor, Santa Clara University
  Sherry C. Wang earned her BA in Psychology from Smith College, and her MA and PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She completed her predoctoral internship at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where she had a rotation opportunity working with survivors of political torture. Most recently, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she expanded her focus from immigrant and refugee mental health to examine barriers of care for African Americans living in the Deep South. Her research interests are focused on cultural factors in ethnic minority health disparities, such as the role of acculturation, stigma, and oppression in risky behaviors (e.g., hazardous alcohol use, risky sexual behaviors, HIV). To better understand how individual and systemic factors perpetuate oppression, she draws from quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. She co-directs the organization, Research Initiative on Social Justice and Equity, which is a national team of faculty, students, and community members committed to using critical inquiry to address issues of systemic inequalities. She is also a fellow of the APA Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), a scholar of the UCLA HIV/AIDS Substance Abuse and Training Program (HA-STTP), and an early career award recipient from the National Multicultural and Counseling Summit (NMCS). At Santa Clara University, she will be teaching her favorite classes, which include multicultural counseling, developmental counseling, microskills, and counseling theories.

• Katharine Manning| Principal, Blackbird-DC
  For fifteen years, Katharine Manning advised the Justice Department on its most challenging victim issues in cases ranging from terrorism to financial fraud to child exploitation. Some of the cases she worked on include the Boston Marathon bombing, Madoff, the Pulse Nightclub shooting, and the federal case against U.S. Olympics Gymnastics Team doctor Larry Nassar. Now, as Principal of Blackbird-DC, Kate uses her expertise to help government, educational, and corporate institutions prepare for and respond to the challenges they face involving employees and clients who may be in trauma, from individual claims like sexual harassment or assault to large-scale events like the pandemic. Her book, The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job, was released by HarperCollins Leadership in February 2021. A member of the California bar, Kate also served as an attorney with the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco, where she represented Fortune 500 companies in class actions, insurance, and media cases. She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Virginia School of Law.

• Edgar Chen, AB, JD| Policy Director, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
  Edgar Chen is the Policy Director at NAPABA and is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. He brings to this position nearly two decades of legal and advocacy experience in the private law firm, government, and non-profit sectors. He is responsible for developing and advancing policies that support NAPABA’s strategic goals and working with affiliates, organizational allies, and executive branch, and congressional offices to promote NAPABA’s work. Prior to joining NAPABA, Edgar served in three different federal agencies during administrations of both parties, including as Chief of Staff at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury; as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); and as attorney advisor for oversight matters in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Edgar began his governmental career as a trial attorney in the DOJ’s Office of Special Investigations, which was responsible for identifying and taking legal action against participants in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution and against modern day human rights violators who entered the United States by concealing their roles in war crimes. He also served in the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs, where he spearheaded the Department’s interactions with Congress on a variety of issues including transnational organized crime, money laundering, human trafficking, forensic science reform, tribal law and order, fraud, the DOJ response to the financial crisis and other high-profile matters. He also worked to guide Presidentially Appointed nominees through the Senate confirmation process and handled oversight from congressional committees of jurisdiction. Prior to entering government service, Edgar worked as counsel to the Coalition for International Justice, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting justice efforts at UN-sponsored war crimes tribunals. He began his legal career at the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP where he worked on public international law disputes and securities litigation. Edgar holds an A.B. in History and a certificate in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.