As an actively serving board member for the Special Olympics Colorado and Commission Chair for the Independent Ethics Commission, Liz Krupa has a lot on her plate. But with proper time management and prioritization, she gets it all done and more! Liz doesn’t just have a great work ethic, but her moral ethics as a lawyer is one that should be admired. Her advocacy for – bleeds through all the work she does. In this episode, Liz talks us through her many initiatives to drive positive change in the community and the justice system. She explains the importance of having policies to empower representation and hold the legal system to a higher standard. Listen in to learn more as she chats with host Stephen Jaye.
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Time Management Strategies To Be Proactive In Your Advocacy With Liz Krupa
In our past culture or the culture that we’re sunsetting, we’d often get the phrase that I’ve previously expressed that I hate, “What do you do?” One of the reasons I tend to hate it is because it encourages us to define ourselves pretty simply by our job titles. Most people are quite a bit more complicated than what you can get in a job title, a few bullet points or something like that, even more complicated than what you’d see in a resume. Oftentimes, people take on a lot of different types of pursuits but these pursuits are part of the same whole personal brand. Something that I’ve been hearing about quite a bit more is that we all have a personal brand that connects a lot of the things we do.

My guest, Liz Krupa, encapsulates this idea of having a personal brand that manifests in a number of different pursuits pretty much better than almost anyone else that I’ve encountered so far. Liz, I would like to welcome you to the program and quickly talk to you about all the pursuits that you are involved in toward the same goal of protecting the people, the unprotected, as well as the ethics in the legal profession.

I’m happy to be here.

Thank you so much. First of all, Liz, it’s an honor to have you on the program. Tell us about all these different endeavors because you’re in the trial advocacy, the Ethics Commission, Special Olympics. They’re all different places that you’ve got yourself involved with.

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By training and education, I’m a lawyer. I do mostly criminal defense but I also do some ethics and internal investigation type of work, white-collar work. I serve on several boards and commissions. Two of the boards that I serve are NITA, the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, which is a nationwide advocacy group that tries to help lawyers be better advocates and the Colorado Special Olympics, which is part of the larger National and International Special Olympics, which works with getting developmentally disabled people more recognition through sports and school, giving them the correct access to medical care and the importance of keeping your physical health up as well. Those are two of the nonprofit boards that I serve.

I am also the Chair of the Commission on Judicial Discipline for the State of Colorado, which is the only entity that looks at any rules of conduct for judges, whether those were violated, makes recommendations to the Supreme Court as far as discipline. I’m also the chair of the Independent Ethics Commission, which similarly looks at any violation of the rules of ethics for elected officials.

Numerous of those types of endeavors. I also mentor through law school. Yes We Can, which is a mentoring program that tries to bring interested young people of color through college into the LSAT program through law school and help them pass the bar. We stay with them through their first several years and hope they stay and mentor...