43 Surviving in Numbers Surviving in Numbers is a sexual assault and domestic violence awareness and prevention project. The organization was founded by Alison Safran, who launched the project after she was sexually assaulted. Although Alison contacted police and went through the legal process, she did not feel justice had been served. As a result, Alison reached out to multiple colleges and other organizations throughout the country, partnering with them to develop Surviving in Numbers to help prevent cases of sexual assault and domestic violence. Since the organization’s inception in October 2012, Mintz Levin has incorporated the organization as a nonprofit, and Mintz Levin attorneys Meryl Epstein, Kristin Gerber, Cynthia Larose, Julia Siripurapu, and Susan Weller, along with former Mintz Levin attorney Tavis Morello, paralegal manager Anne Leland, and summer associate Kaoru Suzuki, now an associate at the firm, worked with Surviving in Numbers on corporate governance, nonprofit, intellectual property, privacy, and contract matters. Team IMPACT Team IMPACT is a nonprofit that was chartered to improve the quality of life for children facing life-threatening and chronic illnesses. At its core, the organization harnesses the power of teamwork by matching children with college athletic teams. Team IMPACT children are “drafted” onto local college teams and, to the greatest extent possible, become official members of the teams for the duration of their treatment and beyond. Mintz Levin has assisted Team IMPACT since its inception, providing advice related to corporate structure, reviewing leases used in the course of the organization’s mission, and assisting in the hiring of a new executive director, among other projects. This past year, attorneys Scott Ford and Anthony Hubbard and former Mintz Levin attorney Martha Zackin helped resolve a contract dispute, facilitated a search for a new director for the organization, and reworked Team IMPACT’s bylaws. Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti When charges were dropped against former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc”Duvalier for financial crimes and crimes against humanity in Haiti, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti did not give up. The Boston-based nonprofit, founded and led by former Mintz Levin attorney Brian Concannon Jr., and the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux went back to work. “After the judge dismissed the charges against Duvalier in February 2012, we fought back through an appeal and the [political violence] charges against him were reinstated in February 2014,” says Brian, who back in 2011 worked with an international team of organizations and law firms including Mintz Levin to help bring the former dictator to justice. “We used the examination questions written by Mintz Levin, and the research underlying them, to prepare the case for this successful appeal.” The Mintz Levin team included attorneys Nick Cramb,Yalonda Howze, and Martha Koster, and more recently, attorney Emily Kanstroom and summer associate Julia Lindsey. “The people in Haiti have been denied justice for so long,” says Martha. “Being able to play a role in the possible reversal of that injustice is a primary reason that we do this pro bono work: to make things better for deserving people.” Haiti, under Duvalier’s rule, and his father’s before him, was a place where citizens were arrested for their political ideas. Those who were arrested either went missing, were confirmed executed, or were tortured. Their dictatorship lasted nearly 30 years. Duvalier also embezzled public money, leaving the country lacking the funds for infrastructure projects to provide clean water and basic sanitation to its cities. The government’s lack of respect for the rule of law also extended to unenforced building and zoning codes, which, along with the lack of sanitation and clean water, left the Haitian people vulnerable to catastrophe in the 2010 earthquake and disease afterward. The world recently learned that Duvalier has passed away. Although the future of the case is now uncertain, the legal work has established that there is no statute of limitations when it comes to pursuing crimes against humanity.