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Art of Social Change Speaker Schedule – Spring 2021

Below is the spring 2021 schedule for Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice. The class meets Thursdays from 5:00-7:00 PM. 

Class 1 (Jan. 28): Course Overview

Speakers:

  • Elizabeth Bartholet, Prof. of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program
  • Crisanne Hazen, Lecturer on Law and Assistant Director, Child Advocacy Program

Class 2 (Feb. 4): Neglect and Its Life-Long Impact; Related Issues In International Adoption Policy

Guest Speakers:

  • Charles A. Nelson, Professor of Pediatrics, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Education, Harvard University; Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Irene Costello, Co-Founder, Effie’s Homemade, LLC; International Adoptive Parent
  • Student; International Adoptee

Class 3 (Feb. 11): Education & Juvenile Justice: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Guest Speakers:

  • Tanya Coke, Director, Ford Foundation’s Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice team
  • Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director, Advancement Project National Office
  • Thena Robinson Mock, Program Officer & Racial Justice Lawyer, Communities for Just Schools Fund

Class 4 (Feb. 18): Child Welfare: The Use and Misuse of Science in Connection with Abusive Head Trauma (Shaken Baby Syndrome)

Guest Speakers:

  • Sameer Sabir, Parent and Community Activist; Founder, Rehma Fund for Children; CEO of SevenOaks Biosystems
  • Dr. Sandeep Narang, Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Child Advocacy and Protection; Child Abuse Pediatrician, Child Advocacy and Protection Services, Medical College of Wisconsin

Class 5 (Feb. 25): Child Welfare: The Use of Data to Inform Decision-Making in Child Maltreatment Cases

Guest Speakers:

  • Emily Putnam-Hornstein, John A. Tate Professor for Children in Need, School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Faculty Co-Director, Children’s Data Network;
  • Virginia Pryor, Chief Deputy Director, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services

Class 6 (Mar. 4): Education: The Campaign for Safe, Supportive and Racially Just Schools

Guest Speakers:

  • Michael Gregory, Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Class 7 (Mar. 11): Education: Establishing Educational Rights Through Litigation

Guest Speakers:

  • Michael Rebell, Professor and Executive Director, Center for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University; Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
  • Jennifer Wood, Executive Director, The Rhode Island Center for Justice

Class 8 (Mar. 25): Education: Current Issues & Future Directions in Homeschooling

Guest Speakers:

  • Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program
  • James Dwyer, Arthur B. Hansen Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
  • Rachel Coleman, Executive Director, Coalition for Responsible Home Education
  • Lindsey T. Powell, Patent Administrator, Harvard University Office of Technology Development; Homeschooling Alum

Class 9 (April 1): Immigration, Racial Justice, and the Private Bar

Guest Speakers:

  • Brad Karp, Chairman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
  • Loretta Lynch
  • Jason Flom, Founder and CEO of Lava Records, Lava Music Publishing, and Lava Media, LLC.; Founding Board Member, The Innocence Project

Class 10 (April 8): Juvenile Justice: Positive Youth Justice

Guest Speakers:

  • Sunindiya Bhalla, Chief, Two Gen Strategies & Programs, Roca
  • Martha Sager-Cutt, Director of Young Mothers Program, Roca

Class 11 (April 15): Juvenile Justice:  Policy Reform Designed to Address Abusive Conditions and Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice Institutions

Guest Speakers:

  • Jason Szanyi, Deputy Director, Center for Children’s Law and Policy
  • Jeanette Bocanegra, Executive Director, Justice for Families

Class 12 (Apr. 22): Child Rights Past & Present, Here & Abroad

Guest Speakers:

  • Anne Dailey, Evangeline Starr Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
  • Katharine Young, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School

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