Each fall or spring, the Child Advocacy Program (CAP) offers a course at HLS entitled The Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, & Juvenile Justice. Inspired by CAP’s mission of a broad vision of advocacy, the course brings leading child advocates and policy-makers from different disciplines and practice settings into the HLS classroom. After the end of the semester, CAP posts a selection of lecture recordings on our website to widely share the innovative social change strategies that our guest speakers are exploring from both inside and outside of the courtroom. Please note that some portions of particular videos have been edited.
Class 2 (Feb. 6): Early Brain Development
Guest Speakers:
Rebecca Compton, Professor of Psychology, Haverford College
[Judith Edersheim, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-Founder and Co-Director, MGH Center for Law, Brain and Behavior] Recording not available.
Class 4 (Feb. 20): Child Rights Past & Present, Here & Abroad
Guest Speakers:
Jeffrey Shulman, Professor of Law, Legal Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
Katharine Young, Associate Professor, Boston College Law School
Class 5 (Feb. 27): Child Welfare: CPS Reform Strategies #2: – Investigative Reporting, Documentary Film, Criminal Prosecution, & Change from Within the Child Protective Services System
Guest Speakers:
Garrett Therolf, Reporter, Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley
Jonathan Hatami, Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Philip Browning, Former Director, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
Class 6 (Mar. 5): Education: Equitable Funding Through Litigation and Legislation
Guest Speakers:
Michael Rebell, Professor and Executive Director, Center for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University; and Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
Robert Jackson, State Senator, New York
Class 7 (Mar. 12): Education: Expanding Early Education
Guest Speakers:
Amy O’Leary, Director, Early Education for All Campaign, Strategies for Children
Samantha Aigner-Treworgy, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
TeeAra Dias, Boston Universal PreK Director, Boston Public Schools