Jenny Andrews is the Director of Training at the Indigent Defense Improvement Division of the Office of the State Public Defender in California. A child of counterculture, raised off the grid by back-to-the-land hippies on the Lost Coast in Northern California, Jenny is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School. Prior to joining IDID in 2022, she litigated trial cases for twenty-three years, in the public defense offices in Alameda, Sonoma, and Santa Barbara counties in California. She has carried specialized caseloads of complex, forensic and capital litigation, and has held a wide variety of positions, including Forensic Resource Counsel and Felony Team Leader in Sonoma County, and Director of Training and Senior Deputy in Santa Barbara. She has taught on the faculty of Gideon’s Promise, the National Association for Public Defense, the National Criminal Defense College, the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School, the California Public Defenders Association, and in public defense training programs of the Federal Defenders and in New York, New Jersey, Montana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Tennessee, and Georgia. She conceptualized and launched a Pre-Arraignment Unit in Santa Barbara and a Felony Team Model in Sonoma County. She has designed and presented training for public defenders working at all levels, from intern to leadership, and from basic trial skills to capital litigation, as well as in specialized areas such as mentorship, challenging forensic evidence, and sustaining well-being. In 2018, she launched BeSustained.org, a training and resource hub to support the well-being of public defenders. She believes in advocating for systemic support of public defenders, building spaces for public defenders to support each other, and prioritizing personal practices that support our well-being. Her personal wellness practices include sailing, hiking, yoga, and tending a rural apple farm. Her systemic wellness practices include being part of the team that created and facilitates Be Well Wednesdays, creating/teaching NAPD’s online courses Sustaining and Supporting Well-Being in Public Defense, and speaking/engaging/tweeting/writing often on the topic of supporting well-being for public defenders.