MILS Board of Directors
Officers
Judi Cohen
Co-President
Chair, Teachers Division
Lecturer, Berkeley Law
Founder, Warrior One: Mindfulness for the Legal Mind
Alexis Firehawk
Co-President
Partner at Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen
Laurie Cappello
Vice President
Laurie Cappello
Chair, Chapter Chair & Communications
Co-Chair, New England Chapter
Director of Well-Being at Mintz
Alexandra "Cookie" Echsner-Rasmussen
Secretary
Chair, Florida Chapter
Attorney in Mass Torts and Wellness Committee Co-Chair,
Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis, and Overholtz, PLLC
https://www.awkolaw.com/
Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern, Florida,
AER Counseling
https://lawganic.com/
cookie@awkolaw.com
Maria Bries
Treasurer
Co-Chair, Illinois Chapter
Renewable Energy Attorney, McCauley Lyman LLC
https://www.mccauleylyman.com/
Pro Bono Attorney, Prairie State Legal Services
https://www.pslegal.org/
Bella Dilworth
Chair, DE&I Collaborative
Served as criminal defense attorney with the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office for 32 years
Managing Board
Shayla Bowles
Chair, Membership Committee
Member, DEI Collaborative
Associate Attorney, Peebles Kidder Bergin & Robinson, LLP
Chapin Cimino
Student Chapter Advisor
Drexel University Kline School of Law, Professor of Law
Nina Farber
Co-Chair, Academic Division
Boston College Law School, Director, Academic Success Programs
Emily Hornsby
Co-Chair, Alabama Chapter
Morris Haynes, Attorneys at Law
Vanessa Kubota
President, Co-founder, Dispute Resolution Student Association
Co-founder, Co-president Zen Law Students' Association
J.D. Candidate at Arizona State University
Stephanie Lewis
Government Attorney
LiveWellFlow | Founder-MIndfulness & Wellness Coach & Instructor
John Lopez
Staff Attorney Defender Association of Philadelphia
Adjunct Professor Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Tatiana Posada
Chair, Law Student Division
Ingrid Benninghoff Prados
Chair, Latin America Chapter
Katarzyna Przyluska-Ciszewska
Chair, European Chapter
Scott Rogers
Founder and Director, Institute for Mindfulness Studies
Founder and Director, University of Miami School of Law’s Mindfulness in Law Program
Co-Founder and Co-Director of University of Miami’s Mindfulness Research & Practice Institute
Rakim Solomon
Assistant Trust Officer/Vice President, The Goldman Sachs Trust Company of Delaware.
Rachel Wohl
Managing Board Member, At-Large
Mediators Beyond Borders
International Mindfulness Teacher rachel.wohl.solutions@gmail.com
Advisory Board
Lisle Baker
Professor of Law, Suffolk U. Law School, Boston
lbaker@suffolk.edu
Judge Butch Childers (Ret.)
Childers Arbitration & Mediation Services mediator@judgechilders.com
bchild33@gmail.com
Brenda Fingold
Co-Chair, New England Chapter
Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Brown University Mindfulness Center and UMass Medical School Center for Mindfulness
brenda_fingold@brown.edu www.brendafingold.com
Steve Hornsby
Retired Tennessee judge
Former Tennessee Deputy Commissioner for the Juvenile Justice Division
Certifications in leadership and life coaching, Coach for Life
Developmental Coaching+Consulting, Your Conscious Life
Rhonda Magee
Advisory Board
Patrick Palace (WA)
Advisory Board
Julie Sandine
MILS Secretary - 2017-2023
Chair, Tennessee Bar Association Attorney Well-Being Committee - 2017-2021
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Vanderbilt Law School, 2002-2015
Susan Wawrose
Licensed Professional Counselor, Cedarwood Counseling Services
Professor of Lawyering Skills (retired), University of Dayton School of Law
swawrose@gmail.com
www.cedarwoodcounselingservices.com
Emeritus Board
Richard Reuben
James Lewis Parks Professor of Law and Journalism
University of Missouri School of Law
Leonard Riskin
Harris H. Agnew Visiting Professor of
Dispute Resolution at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law