I'm a lawyer and analyst with over a decade of experience in criminal justice, civil legal aid, government service delivery, and the role of data and technology in all of that. I've done litigation, research, tech projects, and community organizing. I'm always trying to get better at all of it. I try to combine my substantive legal and technical skills with systems thinking, storytelling, and careful communication, all in the hope of materially improving the lives of marginalized people.BIO: Stephen Goldmeier is a public defender and analyst currently working as the Justice Systems Manager at the Gault Center. In this role, he works on implementing and improving tehcnology and systems to serve a national network of youth defenders. He is also an independent consultant focused on indigent-defense research and technology. He is the Board President of the Indigent Defense Research Association and in leadership of the Columbus Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.Stephen received his bachelor’s degree in secondary education, with minors in chemistry and physics, from Otterbein University, and graduated from DePaul University’s College of Law with a certificate in intellectual property law. He began his career as an Assistant Public Defender in the appeals and postconviction section of the Office of the Ohio Public Defender, where he litigated cases in every phase of a criminal proceeding, including successfully arguing two cases in the Ohio Supreme Court. He then worked in the Policy and Outreach department of that office, co-leading the design and deployment of a unified state-wide data-collection and case-management system. Then, he was the Organizational Systems Analyst at the Bronx Defenders, where he was project lead for a number of process-improvement and technology-deployment projects. As a consultant, he was the Project Coordinator for the GIDEON Project at Southern Methodist University's Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, examining changes to public defense as a result of funding increases in New York state. Stephen has taught nationally about a wide variety of subjects, including legal writing, storytelling, systems design, data collection, and forensic science.