Racial Disparities

Race and Ethnic Diversity Practice Group

Race and Ethnic Diversity Practice Group Mission:

Localize the racial disparity issue in communities by sharing information about disparity with judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement;
Educate the public and stakeholders on the prevalence and effect of racial disparity in our justice system
Create opportunities for the public to participate in efforts to eradicate racial disparity in our justice system
Position the issue so that it is a topic of discussion until racial disparity in our justice system is eradicated
Partner with individuals, associations, groups, etc. to work on this issue and accomplish the above listed goals

Race and Ethnic Diversity Practice Coordinator

Kat Holloway

Kat has been a staff attorney with the SPD’s Youth and Mental Health office in Milwaukee since 2021. She provides legal representation for children in delinquency and child welfare cases, and representation for adults in termination of parental rights cases. She has previously worked on projects studying roles of police in the community, and published Consequences of Police in Schools: The Criminalization of Children in an Era of Mass Incarceration with the UC Law Journal of Race and Economics. She is a new co-author of the Wisconsin Juvenile Law Handbook with the Wisconsin State Bar, 5th edition. She is a volunteer with both the Wisconsin State Bar and Marquette Law School for their mock trial and negotiation competitions, and is a volunteer lawyer with Legal Action of Wisconsin for their Arrest Record Correction clinics.