Shawna Mackey Geiger is the Director of Engagement for the Colorado Office of the Respondent Parents’ Counsel. Her focus is on supporting and improving family defenders in Colorado and around the country, as well as working to improve and abolish the family policing system. Before moving to ORPC she was the Director of Training for the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Denver and was previously the first Training Director for the Colorado Office of Alternate Defense Counsel. Prior to her role as a trainer, Ms. Geiger represented clients as a public defender as well as in private practice where she focused on indigent criminal and youth defense in both federal and state courts. Ms. Geiger teaches trial advocacy, storytelling, persuasion, leadership, trauma-informed practice, equity and diversity training, litigating constitutional and civil rights principles, and client communication skills across the country. She has served on the Board of Regents of the National Criminal Defense College and as an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Shawna works with national defender organizations to ensure that family defenders advocate in an anti-oppressive manner and are consistently working to create equity for clients with disabilities and those of the LGBTQ and BIPOC communities.

Kyana Givens is an AFPD in the District of Nevada, she is currently a Detailee to the Northern and Middle Districts of GA, where she leads an initiative on Ai Automation and Strategic Litigation. She also advises trial teams and CJA attorneys on complex criminal cases at the intersection of the Federal Rules of Evidence and emerging technology. Her projects are “Client-Centered, Evidence Focused & Tech Forward”.  She brings over 19 years of experience as a trial attorney, having previously served in State and Federal Public Defender Offices in multiple jurisdictions.  She also served as an Attorney Advisor at DSO-Training Division and as a TDY at the Office of the Pardon Attorney. She started her trial advocacy career at CJI at Harvard Law School as a Fellow with Charles Ogletree. She is a faculty member at NCDC and programs for State & Federal Defenders. She regularly lectures on trial skills, digital technology in criminal cases, and unconscious bias in jury selection. Mrs. Givens is an Alumn of Northeastern University School of Law.

Andres R. Guevara has been a trial attorney since graduating from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1995. Out of his Denver office, Andres handles both private and court-appointed criminal work in various
Colorado state courts (through the Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel (“ADC”)) and in federal courts (through the CJA Panel). Since starting his own law firm in 2007, Andres has handled and tried every type of criminal case, from
homicides, to sex assaults, human trafficking, federal drug and gun cases, and large conspiracy cases. He has also handled post-conviction cases (including a State death penalty case) and has presented oral arguments before both the
Colorado Court of Appeals and the Colorado Supreme Court.

Andres is a long-time instructor with ADC and the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar and has been on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College for the past seven years. He has presented and trained attorneys
throughout the country, including presentations at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) annual conferences, trial training of lawyers with the U.S. Marines, and regional trial advocacy programs. Andres has
presented on different topics including opening and closing arguments, direct examinations, cross-examinations, federal criminal law, trial practice, jury selection, evidentiary topics, and RICO cases. Andres is also an author having
published in the areas of federal law enforcement, marijuana laws, and most recently in the area of cross-examining child witnesses (for The Champion, the official magazine of the NACDL, published June, 2022).