Sunday Speaker – Dianne Post: Making Sausage at the State Legislature

Sunday Speaker Topic:  

Dianne Post: Making Sausage at the State Legislature

Description:

All Arizona state bills have to be introduced by February 10, heard in their own committees by February 21 and if passed, heard in the opposite chamber by March 28. So by March 23, we will have a good idea what sausage got made in the legislature and what is left to do — usually the budget. What is our path forward? How do we keep sane? And how do we fight for the values we hold dear?

Bio:

Dianne Post has been an attorney since 1980. For more than 18 years, she represented battered women and molested children in family and juvenile court. In 1998, she shifted to international human rights law. She has lived in five countries (Russia (Moscow and Far East), Cambodia, Hungary, Algeria, Kenya) and worked in fourteen others for short periods of time. She is Legal Director for Secular Coalition for AZ. Locally she’s active in the NOW, and ERA Task Force Az and a Commissioner on the Arizona Commission on African American Affairs.
She is currently representing Randolph residents in their settlement with SRP. She also has a pending case at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the pattern and practice of U.S. judges giving custody and unsupervised visitation to abusers in family law cases and is still fighting for compensation for two cases she won for the Roma in Kosovo.
She has published six law review articles, more than three dozen manuals, more than three dozen articles in five countries, columns in ten publications, six short stories, four of which have won prizes, and two books. Her substack is https://diannepost.substack.com

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