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August Luncheon – August 10th
August 10, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
$17.00
Join us for our August Luncheon where we will be discussing recent civil liberties litigation with featured speaker Heather Gatnarek, senior staff attorney from the ACLU of Kentucky.
About our speaker Heather Gatnarek, Esq.:
Heather Gatnarek joined the ACLU of Kentucky in 2017 as a legal fellow, followed by staff attorney and senior staff attorney. Heather wants to use her law degree to create institutional change, and found the right place to put her expertise to work when she joined the ACLU of Kentucky’s legal team.
Heather earned her bachelor’s degree from Boston College and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the ACLU of Kentucky, Heather worked at the Innocence Project in New York, New York, investigated death penalty cases in Louisiana, and worked with people with past felony convictions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to develop job opportunities with local employers. She moved to Kentucky in 2012 to join the Department of Public Advocacy’s Capital Trials Branch. At DPA, Heather represented indigent clients facing the death penalty in trial courts around the state. During her time at DPA she was a member of the Gideon’s Promise public defender training program, where she trained with faculty and public defenders from around the country.