Riya Saha Shah (she/her)
@riyasahashah.bsky.social
Momma, Abolition, Youth Justice
CEO of @juvenilelawcenter
#GoBlue
CEO of @juvenilelawcenter
#GoBlue
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Today CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social and Senior Managing Director Jessica Feierman attended the Youth Advocate Programs (YAP) summit to share our critical work on behalf of children in the juvenile legal system. It was good to be with colleagues fighting for children’s rights!
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Today CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social and Senior Managing Director Jessica Feierman attended the Youth Advocate Programs (YAP) summit to share our critical work on behalf of children in the juvenile legal system. It was good to be with colleagues fighting for children’s rights!
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For #YJAM2025, our staff and board are reflecting on books from the YJAM book list that speak to us. @riyasahashah.bsky.social, our CEO, offers reflections on a favorite of the list here.
Looking for your next read? Check out the 2025 YJAM Reading List here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wIfk...
Looking for your next read? Check out the 2025 YJAM Reading List here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wIfk...
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For #YJAM2025, our staff and board are reflecting on books from the YJAM book list that speak to us. @riyasahashah.bsky.social, our CEO, offers reflections on a favorite of the list here.
Looking for your next read? Check out the 2025 YJAM Reading List here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wIfk...
Looking for your next read? Check out the 2025 YJAM Reading List here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wIfk...
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Check out the newest article from CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social about the uptick in police militarization, ongoing and evolving surveillance efforts, and the threat these developments pose to Black and Brown children.
bit.ly/4nOX4oo
#ChildrensRights #Surveillance
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#ChildrensRights #Surveillance
Trump’s plan to militarize police will increase surveillance of Black children
Trump’s unsupported and false assertion of a “crime emergency” in Washington D.C., Chicago, and other progressive cities across the country will decimate communities already besieged by racist and tar...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Check out the newest article from CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social about the uptick in police militarization, ongoing and evolving surveillance efforts, and the threat these developments pose to Black and Brown children.
bit.ly/4nOX4oo
#ChildrensRights #Surveillance
bit.ly/4nOX4oo
#ChildrensRights #Surveillance
Trump’s plan to militarize police will increase surveillance of Black children
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Trump’s plan to militarize police will increase surveillance of Black children
Trump’s unsupported and false assertion of a “crime emergency” in Washington D.C., Chicago, and other progressive cities across the country will decimate communities already besieged by racist and tar...
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Trump’s plan to militarize police will increase surveillance of Black children
open.substack.com/pub/riyasaha...
open.substack.com/pub/riyasaha...
Letter to my former self as I celebrate twenty years with @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social
To the 2005 person I was from the 2025 person I never thought I could be
Twenty years ago this week, I started my legal career at Juvenile Law Center.
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Letter to my former self as I celebrate twenty years with @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social
What an honor to be in my hometown paper @freep.com
Our CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social spoke to Free Press Detroit for this piece on their upcoming mayoral race and what will make the city safer for youth. Here’s a hint: it’s not ramping up youth incarceration.
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How will Detroit's next mayor make the city safer for youth?
City officials have repeated that overall crime is down, but there's still more work to do — police say bloodshed among youth is on the rise.
www.freep.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What an honor to be in my hometown paper @freep.com
Trump's lies have real consequences. One of the latest involves his attack on children in DC. Read more by my colleague, Marsha Levick and me in today's @inquirer.com
Op-ed from @riyasahashah.bsky.social and Marsha Levick in today’s @inquirer.com in response to Trump’s performative, misleading attacks on youth in DC. We’ve seen this scenario before and it failed last time too. #treatkidsaskids
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Trump lies and stokes fear about ‘roving bands of youth’ in D.C. | Opinion
The administration’s heavy-handed actions last week are a performative show of force in search of a problem, write Riya Saha Shah and Marsha Levick.
www.inquirer.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Trump's lies have real consequences. One of the latest involves his attack on children in DC. Read more by my colleague, Marsha Levick and me in today's @inquirer.com
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Yesterday, President Trump took to Truth Social to call on Washington, DC to change its laws to charge more children as adults.
At Juvenile Law Center, we believe in treating kids as kids and we have been fighting against charging children as adults for half a century. Here's why.
At Juvenile Law Center, we believe in treating kids as kids and we have been fighting against charging children as adults for half a century. Here's why.
August 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Yesterday, President Trump took to Truth Social to call on Washington, DC to change its laws to charge more children as adults.
At Juvenile Law Center, we believe in treating kids as kids and we have been fighting against charging children as adults for half a century. Here's why.
At Juvenile Law Center, we believe in treating kids as kids and we have been fighting against charging children as adults for half a century. Here's why.
SO excited for my copy of Black Genius to arrive today. @trejohnson.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Tre Johnson’s vital, democratic vision of Black genius
In his book ‘Black Genius,’ Tre Johnson celebrates joy and resilience in New Jersey classrooms, at Solange concerts and amid street festival crowds.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
SO excited for my copy of Black Genius to arrive today. @trejohnson.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Great piece on how research and data should be guiding youth justice transformation from two experts - Liz Ryan and Vincent Shiraldi www.governing.com/policy/why-a...
Why Are We Backsliding on Juvenile Justice?
Over recent decades we’ve moved toward a much more effective and humane system to deal with youth crime. Evidence and research, not hyperbole and hysteria, should be guiding today’s debate.
www.governing.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Great piece on how research and data should be guiding youth justice transformation from two experts - Liz Ryan and Vincent Shiraldi www.governing.com/policy/why-a...
So happy to have the opportunity to give this keynote at the World Congress satellite event hosted by @bakermckenzie.bsky.social and @americanbar.org
Looking for something to quench your thirst for learning this morning? Check out the newest article from our CEO, Riya, as she explores the complex history of violence against children in state systems.
#Substack #YouthJustice #BlogAlert #ChildrensRights #WorldCongress
#Substack #YouthJustice #BlogAlert #ChildrensRights #WorldCongress
Keynote Address: History of Violence Against Children in State Systems
Keynote address for World Congress on Justice with Children satellite event
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June 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So happy to have the opportunity to give this keynote at the World Congress satellite event hosted by @bakermckenzie.bsky.social and @americanbar.org
So excited to be participating in this global event on the harm state systems cause children. bakerxchange.com/cv/1b1852098...
INVITATION: Addressing Violence Against Children within Systems: Time for New Solutions
bakerxchange.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
So excited to be participating in this global event on the harm state systems cause children. bakerxchange.com/cv/1b1852098...
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Our CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social is in Humboldt County, California this week with the ABA Section of Litigation Children's Rights Committee. The working group is meeting with tribal leaders to learn about how tribal courts and
May 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social is in Humboldt County, California this week with the ABA Section of Litigation Children's Rights Committee. The working group is meeting with tribal leaders to learn about how tribal courts and
An excellent piece on the harm children are facing and how educators can act against these policies. hechingerreport.org/opinion-poli...
OPINION: Policy changes sweeping the nation are harming our students. Educators must fight back - The Hechinger Report
President Trump is aggressively stepping up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants. The new policies sweeping the nation deeply affect and harm our children. Educators should do whatever they can t...
hechingerreport.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
An excellent piece on the harm children are facing and how educators can act against these policies. hechingerreport.org/opinion-poli...
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(copied from NLG's post elsewhere)
NLG Chicago stands with our members Professor Sheila Bedi and Rifqa Falaneh in the face of McCarthyesque intimidation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce.
Read our full statement here:
nlgchicago.org/2025/04/03/s...
NLG Chicago stands with our members Professor Sheila Bedi and Rifqa Falaneh in the face of McCarthyesque intimidation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce.
Read our full statement here:
nlgchicago.org/2025/04/03/s...
April 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
(copied from NLG's post elsewhere)
NLG Chicago stands with our members Professor Sheila Bedi and Rifqa Falaneh in the face of McCarthyesque intimidation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce.
Read our full statement here:
nlgchicago.org/2025/04/03/s...
NLG Chicago stands with our members Professor Sheila Bedi and Rifqa Falaneh in the face of McCarthyesque intimidation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce.
Read our full statement here:
nlgchicago.org/2025/04/03/s...
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The only reason that the government is disappearing these students is because they have spoken out for Palestinian #humanrights. Now is the time for universities and law firms to stand with the rest of us and refuse to become a lever for the destruction of our democracy www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/T...
‘Unfolding authoritarianism’: Lawyer reacts to ICE detaining Tufts student | CNN
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, talks to Christiane Amanpour about ICE detaining a Turkish graduate student who hasn’t been charged with a crime.
www.cnn.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The only reason that the government is disappearing these students is because they have spoken out for Palestinian #humanrights. Now is the time for universities and law firms to stand with the rest of us and refuse to become a lever for the destruction of our democracy www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/T...
As a @umich.edu alum, what made my experience so amazing was the diversity on campus and that each of us, coming from different backgrounds and perspectives, was able to find a place. I strongly denounce these actions and the Alumni Association's decision to end the LEAD Scholars program.
- The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will close
- The DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan will be discontinued
- The decision to end the use of diversity statements in faculty hiring will be applied universitywide
- The DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan will be discontinued
- The decision to end the use of diversity statements in faculty hiring will be applied universitywide
March 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
As a @umich.edu alum, what made my experience so amazing was the diversity on campus and that each of us, coming from different backgrounds and perspectives, was able to find a place. I strongly denounce these actions and the Alumni Association's decision to end the LEAD Scholars program.
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Read the latest from our CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social on our values. "This work is hard and will continue to get harder. Keeping children safe from state-imposed harm is an uphill battle. And we will continue to climb." jlc.org/news/driven-...
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Read the latest from our CEO @riyasahashah.bsky.social on our values. "This work is hard and will continue to get harder. Keeping children safe from state-imposed harm is an uphill battle. And we will continue to climb." jlc.org/news/driven-...
Driven by our values, we continue to climb
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Driven by our values, we continue to climb
On a daily basis the actions of the new administration threaten our identities and ideals and challenge our faith in the law.
open.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Driven by our values, we continue to climb
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“offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.”
Bukele said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
Bukele said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
Rubio says that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportations of American citizens www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.
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March 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.”
Bukele said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
Bukele said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
an important read.
I wrote about the current constitutional crisis
(not that one, the other one)
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
(not that one, the other one)
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Trump Allies Keep Floating Trial Balloons For Ignoring Court Orders
Just in case, the conservative legal movement is laying the groundwork for the Republican Party’s next big move.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
an important read.
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probably the most mischievous grin ever
February 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
probably the most mischievous grin ever