Art: Speaker Schedule

Below is the Fall 2011 schedule for Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (LAW-30691A).

Class	Date	Topic	Guest Lecturers
1	Sept. 15	Course Overview	Elizabeth Bartholet, Prof. of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School Jessica Budnitz, Lecturer on Law and Managing Director, Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School
2	Sept. 22	Creating a Children’s Movement	Mark Edwards, Executive Director, Opportunity Nation, a campaign of Be the Change, Inc. Daniel Heimpel, Project Director, Fostering Media Connections
3	Sept. 29	“Aging Out” Film Screening	Vanessa Roth, Producer/Director, Big Year ProductionsResponse Panel: Brian Condron, Director, Advocacy and Public Policy, The Home for Little Wanderers Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Author, The Language of Flowers, and Co-Founder, The Camellia Network Amanda B. Rodriguez, Director of Massachusetts Task Force on Youth Aging Out of DCF Care
4	Oct. 6	Child Maltreatment & Substance Abuse	Karen Howell, Assistant Professor for Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development Project Joseph P. Ryan, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work
5	Oct. 13	Early Intervention	Deborah Daro, Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Response Panel: Amy O’Leary, Director of the Early Education for All (EEA) Campaign, Strategies for Children and Member of the Governing Board, National Association for the Education of Young Children Sarita Rogers, Assistant Director of Programs at theChildren’s Trust Fund and Director of Newborn Home Visiting
6	Oct. 20	Problem Solving Courts for Children & Families	Cindy Lederman, Circuit Court Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit Court, Juvenile Division, Miami, FLResponse Panel: Jay Blitzman, First Justice, Middlesex Juvenile Court, Massachusetts Angelo McClain, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Children and Families Jane Tewksbury, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Youth Services
7	Oct. 27	Closing the Achievement Gap: The EdLabs Approach	Roland Fryer, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Faculty Director, The Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard UniversityResponse Panel: Dai Ellis, Chief Executive Officer, Excel Academy Thomas Payzant, Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education
8	Nov. 3	The Prostitution of Children: The Hidden Problem, A Model Prevention and Intervention Program, & the Prosecution Approach	Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Program Director, My Life My Choice Leora Joseph, Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Child Protection Unit, Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office Ann Wilkinson, Mentor Coordinator, My Life My Choice
9	Nov. 10	Closing the Achievement Gap: A Multi-Faceted Approach	Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education atNew York UniversityResponse Panel: Jeffrey C. Riley, Chief Innovation Officer, Office of Innovation, Partnerships & Development, Boston Public Schools Richard Weissbourd, Lecturer in Education, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government andHarvard Graduate School of Education; Director, Human Development and Psychology Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
10	Nov. 17	Children Dying While Incarcerated: Approaches to Change	Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice InitiativeResponse Panel: Naoka Carey, Senior Policy Associate, Citizens for Juvenile Justice Josh Dohan, Director, Youth Advocacy Department
11	Dec. 1	Juvenile Incarceration: Creating Better Models for the Future	Tim Decker, Director, Missouri Division of Youth ServicesResponse Panelist: Edward Dolan, Deputy Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Youth Services
12	Dec. 8	Preventing Gang Violence: StreetSafe Boston	Robert Lewis, Jr., Vice President for Program, Boston Foundation’s StreetSafe Boston Marcus Merritt, Lead Streetworker, Boston Foundation’sStreetSafe Boston Cecely Reardon, Attorney In Charge, Roxbury Office, Youth Advocacy Department