Join Us!

On behalf of Justice Technology Association and Innovation for Justice we are excited to invite you to our Spring Convening, to be held April 7-8, 2025 in Tucson, Arizona at the University of Arizona Student Union.

This Convening is an opportunity to join community-centered civil justice innovators in a safe space to discuss actionable disruption in access to justice, participate in working sessions that add value to their justice work, and to share their expertise. For JTA members, this will be the first opportunity to gather and learn from each other and like-minded collaborators. We believe this Convening is more necessary than ever to scale our collective efforts to progress justice equity. 

Our goal for this event is to be generative and creative in our discussions and invite participants to engage one another. Workshop sessions will follow Chatham House Rules and will not be recorded. 

Attendees will cover their own travel costs, but the Convening hosts will cover some meals and arrange for a hotel block to reduce travel costs.

Monday, April 7, noon to 5pm

  • Noon to 12:30pm: Introductions

  • 12:30pm - 2:30pm: 

    • Understanding the work of Justice Technology Association and Innovation 4 Justice 

    • In this session, we’ll spend an hour learning from i4J’s community legal advocates about the work they are doing, and an hour learning from JTA members about the work they are doing, with focus on what brings them to their work, the challenges they are experiencing, and their hopes for disruptive strategies to advance access to justice.  As a group, we’ll begin to understand common barriers and opportunities, make connections, and explore new synergies.

  • 2:30pm - 3:15pm: 

    • Snacks and unstructured networking time

  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm: 

    • Facilitated networking

    • In this session, we’ll try out some networking activities designed to build new connections and understanding, and challenge your thinking and assumptions.

  • 4:15pm - 5:00pm

    • All group share out

    • We’ll close the day together, gaining a shared understanding of who is at this convening and how our work empowers, what common goals have been identified, what common barriers we are experiencing, and what community opportunities excite us

  • 5:00pm

    • Optional no-host dinner near the University of Arizona

Tuesday, April 8, 9am - 5pm

  • 8:50am - 9am: 

    • Welcome, Orientation to the day

  • 9:00 am - 10:30 am

    • Civic engagement workshop 

    • In this session, we’ll work alongside experts from the civic engagement movement to explore what the A2J movement can learn from the civic engagement movement, and identify strategies for messaging access to justice as a form of civic engagement  

  • 10:30 am - 11:00am

    •  Break / unstructured networking 

  • 11:00am - 12:15pm

    • Narrative building and message testing 

    • In this session, we will work alongside experts in partners, small groups and as a full group to explore how we talk about our work, who listens / cares, and who we wish would listen and care 

  • 12:15pm - 1:00pm 

    • Lunch will be provided 

  • 1:00pm - 2:00 pm

    • Workshopping challenges, opportunities, and advantages

    • In this session, we will focus on strategies for tackling the unmet civil legal needs we are working to address and application of the learnings from the convening.

  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm

    • Close out / share out / next steps

  • 4:00pm - 6:30pm

    • Join us for a Reception hosted by University of Arizona Law, honoring the Justice Technology Association as the inaugural recipient of its Changemaker Award. More information here.