Katie Stanley, Esq.
Being Kind Louder, LLC https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinemstanley/
About The Lecturer
Katie Stanley is a public service attorney, singer-songwriter, and Founder of Being Kind Louder. Stanley primarily works in fair housing civil rights education and regularly facilitates research-based mindfulness trainings for judges and lawyers across the nation. Stanley volunteers in a wide variety of public service positions, including being an appointed member of the Michigan Supreme Court/State Bar of Michigan Task Force on Well-Being in the Law and the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board, a member of the State Bar of Michigan’s Lawyers and Judges Assistance Committee, a regular contributing columnist to the ‘Practicing Wellness’ section of the Michigan Bar Journal, an elected member of the State Bar of Michigan’s LGBTQ Council, a Fellow for the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, and a member of the Crim Fitness Foundation Mindfulness Initiative Advisory Board.
Stanley has been featured as an attorney well-being educator at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the Michigan Supreme Court, the Institute for Well-Being in the Law, the multi-state Innovation for Justice Lab, the Legal Well-Being Network, the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, as well as a host of private firms, public organizations, state, local, and national bar associations, podcasts, and law schools. Stanley is also a legal educational comic book creator, having recently published a Fair Housing educational comic book for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Stanley is currently working on a diversity, equity, and inclusion legal educational comic book for the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation, and an animated short film featuring themes of Good Legal Stories and community healing, hoping to use human-centered storytelling to increase accessible awareness of civil legal rights and compassion in communities. Stanley has also managed a variety of innovative equity projects, including the creation of a fair housing testing and education application with support from Legal Services Corporation that is currently being launched at several Fair Housing centers across the nation. These contributions, in part, earned them the honor of being named an American Bar Association On the Rise 40 Under 40 honoree in 2022 for Innovation in Public Service. Following law school, Stanley earned their M.P.A. from the University of Michigan-Flint Rackham Graduate School with a master’s thesis on the efficacy of employee wellness programs and is currently working on a PhD with a dissertation focus of mindfulness-based interventions in the legal field through a levels of social change and embodied social justice lens.
When not at work, Stanley can generally be found searching for something new to learn or create to try to make the world a better place alongside their two King Charles Cavalier Spaniels, Sam and Bader.
Practice Area(s)
Ethics
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Education
B.A., University of Michigan-Flint
J.D., Cooley Law School
