# Lisa Daugaard

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{{Short description|American criminal justice reformer}}
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| awards             = 2019 [MacArthur Fellowship](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program)
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'''Lisa Daugaard''' (born 1965/1966) is an American [criminal justice reform](/source/criminal_justice_reform) activist. She is the director of the nonprofit organization Public Defender Association and a commissioner of the Community Police Commission in Seattle. She received a 2019 [MacArthur Fellowship](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program) for her criminal justice reform work.

== Early life and education ==
Daugaard was born in either 1965 or 1966,<ref name="Schuessler1">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-list.html|title=MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners for 2019: The Full List | date=September 25, 2019| access-date=September 25, 2019| website=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)| first=Jennifer| last=Schuessler }}</ref> and raised in [Seattle, Washington](/source/Seattle%2C_Washington). She started college at the [University of Washington](/source/University_of_Washington) when she was twelve years old.<ref name=goldsteinbook>{{cite book|title=Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--and Won|first=Brandt|last=Goldstein|date=2006|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781416535157|pages=9–10}}</ref><ref name=outmag>{{cite magazine|magazine=Out|date=July 1, 1999|title=He Kissed a Girl: How a Journey through the Heyday of Identity Politics Led to a Straight Romance|first=Sara|last=Miles|pages=51–53, 93–95|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51}}</ref> She completed her B.A. degree in 1983.<ref name=maccite /> Daugaard started graduate school at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University) at age seventeen, initially studying political science and earning an M.A. degree in 1987, but after repeatedly being arrested and disciplined for her involvement in the campus [South Africa divestment movement](/source/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa), she left her Ph.D. program to attend law school.<ref name=goldsteinbook /><ref name=maccite /> She graduated from [Yale Law School](/source/Yale_Law_School) with a [J.D.](/source/Juris_Doctor) degree in 1995.<ref name=maccite />

== Career and legal work ==
After graduating from Yale Law School, Daugaard joined the [American Civil Liberties Union](/source/American_Civil_Liberties_Union), where she continued work on litigation regarding [Haitian refugees held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base](/source/Haitian_refugees_held_at_the_Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base) that she had begun at Yale.<ref name=pdabio>{{cite web|url=http://www.defender.org/content/lisa-daugaard|title=Lisa Daugaard|publisher=Public Defender Association|access-date=September 27, 2019}}</ref><ref name=frontierjustice>{{cite book|title=Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and what to Do about it|publisher=Doubleday Canada|date=2011|first=Andy|last=Lamey|isbn=9780385662543|pages=[https://archive.org/details/frontierjusticeg0000lame/page/50 50]|url=https://archive.org/details/frontierjusticeg0000lame/page/50}}</ref> In 1996, she joined The Defender Association as an attorney.<ref name=pdabio /> She was a Liman Fellow at the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law from 1998–99.<ref name=yale>{{cite web|url=https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/lisa-daugaard-95-named-2019-macarthur-fellow|title=Former Liman Fellow Lisa Daugaard '95 Named 2019 MacArthur Fellow|date=September 25, 2019 |publisher=Yale Law School|access-date=September 27, 2019}}</ref> During the [1999 Seattle WTO protests](/source/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests), Daugaard organized the legal defense of activists.<ref name=pdabio />

Daugaard started the Racial Disparity Project, a program in Seattle that addresses police use of racial information in law enforcement, in 2001.<ref name=guardianRDP>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/25/seattle-drug-program-lead-offenders-treatment-police|title=Seattle's sensible approach puts drug offenders into treatment, not jail|work=The Guardian|date=March 25, 2015|access-date=September 27, 2019|first=Nicky|last=Woolf}}</ref> Ten years later, she helped create [Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion](/source/Law_Enforcement_Assisted_Diversion) (LEAD), a program that diverts low-level offenders in [King County, Washington](/source/King_County%2C_Washington), from the criminal justice system into the social services system.<ref name=huffpost2014>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seattle-lead-program_n_5697660|title=Change Of Habit: How Seattle Cops Fought An Addiction To Locking Up Drug Users|work=[Huffington Post](/source/Huffington_Post)|date=August 28, 2014|access-date=November 7, 2019|first=Saki|last=Knafo}}</ref> She joined Seattle's Community Police Commission in 2013, first as co-chair, then as a commissioner.<ref name=seattlemag2018>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.seattlemag.com/news-and-features/reformer-chief-meet-woman-working-solve-seattles-most-vexing-issues|title=Reformer-in-Chief: Meet the Woman Working To Solve Seattle's Most Vexing Issues|magazine=Seattle Magazine|date=February 1, 2018|first=Erica C.|last=Barnett}}</ref> {{As of|2019}}, she is Executive Director of the Public Defender Association.<ref name=pdabio />

==Recognition==
Daugaard received a 2019 [MacArthur Fellowship](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program) for her criminal justice reform work.<ref name=seattletimes2019>{{cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-reform-advocate-receives-macarthur-genius-grant-it-renewed-my-hope-that-people-support-this-shift/|title=Seattle police-reform advocate receives MacArthur 'genius grant'|work=Seattle Times|date=September 25, 2019|first=Asia|last=Fields|access-date=September 26, 2019}}</ref> The award citation noted the measurable successes of LEAD, which have resulted in expansion of the LEAD program to other cities and tribal areas across the United States.<ref name=maccite>{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1033/|title=Lisa Daugaard|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|access-date=September 26, 2019}}</ref>

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