Sessions
Caring for Families: What State Policies Mean for you.
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM Fri
S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal (she/hers) is the Executive Director of the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), an abolitionist legal and policy organization that operates within and around the criminal legal and public health systems at the state and federal level to craft just policies that uphold the humanity and dignity of people living with HIV and other stigmatized health conditions. Based in New Orleans, she is a Black feminist attorney, a trained facilitator, and a cultural and political strategist.
Before joining CHLP, Mandisa founded The Moore-O’Neal Law Group, LLC, a Black Feminist law and policy practice. Her practice focused on HIV De-criminalization litigation, education, and advocacy; family law litigation, education, and advocacy; employment and public accommodations discrimination litigation and education; and police accountability litigation and advocacy. She was also the Litigation and Policy Director at Frontline Legal Services from 2017 until 2022.
Mandisa is a founding member of the Louisiana Coalition on Criminalization and Health and in 2012 received her JD from Louisiana State University Law Center. Mandisa has researched, published, and presented on abolitionist lawyering, reproductive justice and the law, HIV De-criminalization, punitive social policies, and state violence.
At its core, her legal work is best defined as using a Black feminist and abolitionist framework to craft legal strategies that move us closer to liberation.