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Amy Lopez
Former Deputy Director, DC Department of Corrections
Past the Edges Consulting
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Dr. Lopez began her career as a public-school teacher and then administrator in Texas, her home state. She found her way into correctional education as the Superintendent of Education for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and was later recruited to initiate education reforms for the students in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice by the Windham School District. In 2016, Obama-era Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates recruited Dr. Lopez to build a school district within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Dr. Lopez then served as the Deputy Director of College and Career Readiness and Professional Development for the DC Department of Corrections where she designed and implemented innovative academic and workforce development programs for incarcerated students and a post-release employment program for justice-involved individuals returning to the community. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University, earned her M.Ed. from Lubbock Christian University, and her doctoral degree from Sam Houston State University. She is currently the CEO of Past the Edges Consulting, partnering with APDS and correctional institutions to transform and elevate the educational experience of incarcerated students across the country.
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Arti V. Finn
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
APDS
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Arti Finn is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of APDS, an ed-tech public benefit corporation and B Corporation grounded at the intersection of the justice-impacted and education technology. Arti is the foremost authority on the use of technology to enhance educational outcomes and applies her expertise to support the nation's 6 million plus justice-impacted individuals to obtain living wage employment.
She has served as Chief Business Development Officer, and Chief Revenue Officer of APDS. She sits on the Board of the company she co-founded in 2013, which currently operates in 18 states and hundreds of facilities. And as a Board member of the Correctional Association of New York, she supports the only independent organization in New York with authority under state law to monitor prisons
Arti Finn and APDS are committed to shifting the correctional system in the United States from one of warehousing to one of true rehabilitation.
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Peter Rasmussen
Chief Clinical Officer, Professor of Neurosurgery
The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic; Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
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Peter A. Rasmussen, MD, is Chief Clinical Officer for The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic and Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. As former Medical Director of Digital Health at Cleveland Clinic, Rasmussen oversaw digital health strategy and the implementation of platforms across the enterprise including the flagship virtual care service “Express Care Online." As former Director of the Cerebrovascular Center, he founded Cleveland Clinic’s telestroke program and the Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit, one of the first such units in the U.S. A Past-President of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery, Rasmussen is internationally recognized as an expert in both digital health and cerebrovascular surgery.
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Daniel Stunes
Manager, Research Operations
SHRM
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Daniel Stunes, SHRM-SCP is the Manager of Research Operations with the Society for Human Resource Management. In his tenure with SHRM, he has led various research projects including those on Paid Leave; Immigration; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; workplace impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; Empathy; Alternative Credentials; and benchmarking studies for Human Capital, Talent Access, and Employee Benefits.
Daniel joined SHRM from Walmart where he worked as part of multiple HR centers of expertise including Surveys, Selection & Assessments, and Performance Management. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Drake University, a Master of Science degree in Clinical Psychology from Fort Hays State University, and a Master of Arts degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa.