It's time to elect new ACLU-DE board members! Click here to elect new members to the ACLU of Delaware Board of Directors. Nominee Profiles are below. Only your current ACLU membership is required; no additional donation is necessary.
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Online voting will close at midnight on Friday, May 19.
Nominee Profiles
Charito Calvachi Mateyko
Charito Calvachi-Mateyko is a Restorative Justice international consultant, and a passionate promoter of racial justice and the Latinx/Hispanic causes and culture. She has spent her professional career studying, mastering and implementing Peacemaking Circles as an established method to promote peace and justice within society. Charito uses Circles to heal the wounds of crime, build communities and broaden cultural awareness.
A lawyer turned peacebuilder, Charito has been a key-note speaker and trainer in Latin America and Africa as well as the United States. She has had rich and diverse experiences such as being a radio show host, an author, a storyteller, and a Delaware Humanities presenter and facilitator. Currently, she is the co-host of Entre Nosotr@as Radio, supporter in part by ACLU-DE, a segment that promotes immigrant stories connected to civic engagement.
Charito is the founding member of the Latino Initiative on Restorative Justice (LIRJ), a tax-exempt organization whose mission is the dissemination of restorative justice. Charito is also the Principal of Rosario Calvachi-Mateyko & Associates, LLC, in Delaware that provides restorative justice services domestically and abroad.
She is a native of Ecuador and has dual citizenship in both the U.S. and Ecuador.
Caitlin McAndrews
Caitlin McAndrews is a shareholder with McAndrews Law Offices, P.C., where she concentrates her practice on Special Education matters and Estate Planning. When she was in high school, Ms. McAndrews started working at the McAndrews Law Offices, and quickly developed a desire to serve individuals with disabilities and their families.
After college, she worked as a special educator in the Philadelphia area. During law school, she interned at University Legal Services, the Protection & Advocacy group for people with disabilities in the District of Columbia. She also participated in the Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law.
In her free time, she volunteered with National Youth Justice Alliance, teaching students about the Constitution and individual rights at the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services’ Youth Services Center. During her legal career, Ms. McAndrews has continuously represented individuals with special needs and their families, both at McAndrews Law Offices and through a clerkship with Delaware’s Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI). She routinely presents on special education and disability related topics across multiple states and for national organizations.
James Nolan
James Nolan, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University where he teaches courses relating to institutional reform, structured inequality, and social control. His research focuses on police reform, hate crime, and crime measurement. He has received funding in recent years from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the American Statistical Association. In 2014 he was appointed to the National Academy of Science Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics.
Dr. Nolan’s recent publications include three books: Policing in an Age of Reform: An Agenda for Research and Practice (Palgrave/MacMillan), The Violence of Hate: Understanding Harmful Forms of Bias and Bigotry, 4th edition (Rowman & Littlefield), and Engaging Faculty in Group-Level Change for Institutional Transformation: Disrupting Inequity and Building Inclusive Academic Departments (Routledge). In addition, he has published nearly 70 book chapters and professional journal articles appearing in outlets such as the American Behavioral Scientist; British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology; Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice; Justice, Information Sciences; Policing & Society; Criminal Justice Studies; Homicide Studies; Journal of Criminal Justice, and The American Sociologist.
Dr. Nolan’s professional career began as a police officer in Wilmington, Delaware. In 13 years with that department, he rose to the rank of lieutenant and worked in a variety of divisions, including patrol, community policing, and drug, organized crime and vice. He is a 1992 graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Academy. Just prior to joining the faculty at West Virginia University, Dr. Nolan worked for the FBI as a unit chief in the Crime Analysis, Research and Development Unit that provided management oversight for the National Hate Crime Data Collection Program. Dr. Nolan earned a Ph.D. from Temple University. His graduate work focused on the study of group and social processes.
Jennifer Siew
Jennifer Siew was an executive member of Tulane Law School Moot Court and a coach for the Tulane Law Mock Trial and Black Law Students’ Association Trial Team.
Jennifer focuses her practice primarily on intellectual property litigation and labor and employment matters in Delaware’s state and federal agencies and courts. In law school, Jennifer was the Administrative Justice of Business Affairs for Tulane Law Moot Court while coaching and competing on multiple competition teams. She was a judicial intern for the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Upon graduating, she was inducted into the Order of the Barristers.
Prior to law school, Jennifer was awarded the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship and U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship.
Sara Hildebrand
Sara S. Hildebrand is an Assistant Professor of Law and teaches Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law. Her scholarship focuses on racial disparities in the criminal legal system and how they fundamentally undermine the fairness of proceedings in that system. Her scholarship has been published in the Penn State Law Review, the Villanova Law Review. She has a forthcoming piece that will be published in the Mississippi Law Journal.
Professor Hildebrand joined the faculty from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she was a Christopher N. Lasch Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Criminal Defense Clinic and earned an LL.M. In that role, she supervised students in their representations of clients charged with misdemeanor and municipal ordinance violations in county and municipal courts around the Denver metro area.
Professor Hildebrand began her legal career as a public defender in the Colorado State Public Defender system, a role in which she represented clients charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses, first in the Durango regional trial office and then in the Arapahoe County trial office.
