TRAINING: What You Do Matters: Lessons from the Holocaust
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Description
What You Do Matters
What You Do Matters is a full-day, highly interactive program developed with the historians of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Using images, film, and artifacts selected by museum historians, it traces the slippery slope by which police and prosecutors moved from protectors of the public to instruments of the Nazi state between 1933 and 1942 — then turns that history on the profession today.
Participants call it a course like no other. For one day in Washington, DC, a cohort of prosecutors will step back from the caseload to confront the weight of everyday choices — and leave with a sharper sense of the oath they carry: what it means to serve justice, where discretion becomes power, and what is owed to the communities they represent.

Jason Kalish has spent his entire career as a prosecutor with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Over nearly three decades he has prosecuted gang members and repeat offenders and spent almost ten years trying homicides in the Family Violence and Capital Litigation bureaus, and has supervised the Charging/Grand Jury, Preliminary Hearings, and Juvenile Crimes bureaus.
In 2014 he was named APAAC Prosecutor of the Year for his role as lead counsel in the retrial of the 1991 Buddhist Temple murders. A dedicated teacher — Maricopa County Attorney's Office Trainer of the Year in 2003 and former Chief of its Training Bureau — Jason has taught nationwide on a wide range of topics.
While we aren't holding a hotel block for this program, the properties below are all close to the Museum and downtown Washington, DC — offered simply as a starting point for your planning.
*Independent and boutique-style properties, which may be less likely to offer the federal government per diem rate. Per diem availability is at each hotel's discretion and can be limited, so we'd encourage you to confirm rates directly with the hotel when you book.
Support What You Do Matters and help bring this program to prosecutors nationwide. Sponsorship is an opportunity to align your organization with a commitment to ethical leadership and the rule of law, while gaining visibility among prosecutorial leaders. A range of sponsorship levels and benefits are available.
View the Sponsorship Invitation →Washington, DC United States
Sasha Beatty
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