Below is the fall 2015 schedule for Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice. The class meets from 5:00-7:00 PM at Harvard Law School in WCC 2012. Please see the Course Syllabus for further details.
| Class | Date | Topic | Guest Lecturers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 10 | Course Overview | Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School Cheryl Bratt, Assistant Director and Lecturer on Law, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School |
| 2 | Sep 17 | Early Childhood Adversity and Its Life-Long Impact on Brain and Behavioral Development | Charles 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 |
| 3 | Sep 24 | Key Issues in Child Welfare Policy: Under-Intervention vs. Over-Intervention, the Relationship between Poverty and Maltreatment, and the Role of Research | Kristen Shook Slack, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work Jill Duerr Berrick, Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor, UC Berkeley, School of Social Welfare |
| 4 | Oct 1 | Youth Homelessness: Problems and Solutions | Neil MacInnes-Barker, Founder and Executive Director, Voice US and IPCNOW.ORG Sam Greenberg, Co-Executive Director, Y2Y Harvard Square Sarah Rosenkrantz, Co-Executive Director, Y2Y Harvard Square Representatives from Youth On Fire |
| 5 | Oct 8 | Improving Educational Outcomes for Foster Youth | Emily Kernan, Associate Director, NYU Law School Public Interest Law Center, and former Staff Attorney, Project Achieve, Advocates for Children of New York Jesse Hahnel, Executive Director, National Center for Youth Law, and Founder and former Director, FosterEd Initiative, National Center for Youth Law Jessica Berry, Deputy Director, Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts |
| 6 | Oct 15 | Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth: Individual Advocacy, Intervention, and Systemic Reform | Erin Corcoran, Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire School of Law Elizabeth Badger, Senior Attorney, Kids in Need of Defense Sandra Cañas, Youth Programs Director, Cambridge Community Services |
| 7 | Oct 22 | Education Reform: Community Organizing, Policy Advocacy, and Systemic Reform Litigation |
John Affeldt, Managing Attorney, Public Advocates Inc. Roberta Furger, Senior Writer and Director of Outreach Communications, Learning Policy Institute, and former Director, Research and Writing, PICO California |
| 8 | Oct 29 | Education Reform: The Campaign to Expand High-Quality Early Education in Massachusetts | Amy O’Leary, Director, Early Education for All Campaign, Strategies for Children Alice Peisch, Chairwoman, Joint Committee on Education, Massachusetts House of Representatives Jason Sachs, Director, Department of Early Childhood, Boston Public Schools |
| 9 | Nov 5 | Youth Violence: Crime Lab and the Science of Reducing Youth Violence (see also Class 12) | Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, University of Chicago; and Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab |
| 10 | Nov 12 | Lawyering for Youth: Individual Representation and Systemic Change | Michael Dsida, Deputy Chief Counsel, Children and Family Law Division, Committee for Public Counsel Services David Deakin, Assistant District Attorney and Chief, Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau, Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office Joshua Dohan, Director, Youth Advocacy Division, Committee for Public Counsel Services |
| 11 | Nov 19 | Education Reform: The Massachusetts Case Challenging the Cap on Charter School Expansion | Felicia Ellsworth, Partner, WilmerHale LLP Christopher Looney, Senior Associate, WilmerHale LLP Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| 12 | Dec 3 | Youth Violence: BAM! WOW! and the Practice of Reducing Youth Violence (see also Class 9) | Anthony Ramirez-Di Vittorio, Founder, Becoming a Man (BAM), and Manager, BAM Training Academy, Youth Guidance Anthony Watson, Director, Becoming a Man (BAM), Youth Guidance Gail Day, Program Manager, Working on Womanhood (WOW), Youth Guidance |