Below are the biographies for CAP’s Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice spring 2021 speakers.
Elizabeth Bartholet
Nationally renowned child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet (Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law) is the founding Faculty Director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program. She teaches family law, specializing in child welfare, adoption and reproductive technology, as well as employment discrimination. Before joining the HLS Faculty, she was engaged in civil rights and public interest work, first with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and later as founder and director of the Legal Action Center, a non-profit organization in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues. Bartholet graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962, and from Harvard Law School in 1965. Her publications include: Nobody’s Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative (Beacon Press, 1999), and Family Bonds: Adoption, Infertility, and the New World of Child Production (Beacon Press, 1999), as well as numerous law review articles. Bartholet has won several awards for her writing and her related advocacy work in the area of adoption and child welfare. Other awards include a “Media Achievement Award” in 1994 and the Radcliffe College Alumnae Recognition Award in 1997. For more information about Professor Bartholet and to view her publications, please visit her website.
Crisanne Hazen
Crisanne Hazen is the Assistant Director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program. Crisanne joined CAP in the summer of 2016. She came from San Jose, California, where she worked as a supervising attorney at Legal Advocates for Children and Youth (LACY), a program of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. Starting at LACY as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in 2006, Crisanne developed a “know your rights” curriculum for pregnant and parenting teens, which she taught at 6 area high schools. Over the 10 years at LACY, she represented hundreds of teen parents in family law and restraining order matters, as well as directly represented children and youth of all ages in a variety of civil proceedings including family law, guardianships, housing, benefits, special education, and school discipline. She helped to start and later manage a medical-legal partnership clinic in the Pediatric Department of Valley Medical Center in San Jose. She also managed other population-based projects, including a CSEC project, transition-age foster youth project, and a foster youth identity theft project. Crisanne is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of California-Davis School of Law.
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson III, PhD, is currently Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds the Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research at Boston Children’s Hospital, and serves as Director of Research in the Division of Developmental Medicine. His research interests center on a variety of problems in developmental cognitive neuroscience, including: the development of social perception; developmental trajectories to autism; and the effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development. He chaired the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development and served on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panels that wrote From Neurons to Neighborhoods, and New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research. Among his many honors he has received the Leon Eisenberg award from Harvard Medical School, an honorary Doctorate from Bucharest University (Romania), was a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (Italy), has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the British Academy and received the Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
Irene Costello
Irene is an entrepreneur and founder of Effie’s Homemade, a wholesale baking company located in Boston. Prior to starting her business, Irene pursued the adoption of a child from Romania at the age of 40. Her case encountered many trials and tribulations culminating with the permanent ban on inter-country adoptions. Irene was one of the hundreds of families whose case was terminated abruptly by the Romanian authorities. By then she had formed a relationship with and continued to support her child, for another 14 years. Irene sponsored a visa for her child who left Romania on their 18th birthday. Two years later the long-awaited adoption became final in America, and the child was granted a green card via the special immigrant juvenile visa program. Today mother and child live happily in Brookline, MA.
Tanya Coke
Tanya Coke directs the Ford Foundation’s Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice team, focusing on issues of mass incarceration, immigration and reproductive justice. Previously, she served as a distinguished lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, teaching courses on public policy and working on school-to-prison pipeline issues. Prior to that, Tanya was a program director on criminal justice for the Open Society Institute and a program manager for the US Human Rights Fund. She also served as a senior consultant to the Atlantic Philanthropies from 2010 to 2013, while running a strategic-planning consulting practice for social justice nonprofits and philanthropies.
Tanya began her career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a researcher on its capital punishment project. After attending law school, she practiced as a trial attorney in the Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society, defending clients in drug, immigration, and other federal matters in New York City.
She is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root Tilden public interest scholar and editor in chief of the law review, and she holds an undergraduate degree from Yale College.
Judith Browne Dianis
Dianis has served as a lawyer, professor and civil rights advocate in the movement for racial justice. Hailed as a voting rights expert and pioneer in the movement to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, Dianis leads Advancement Project National Office’s work in combatting structural racism in education, voting, policing, criminal justice and immigration.
Since joining Advancement Project at its inception in 1999, Dianis has worked with grassroots organizations to wage successful campaigns using litigation, advocacy and communications. Dianis authored groundbreaking education reports including: Opportunities Suspended and Derailed: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, detailing the unnecessary criminalization of students by their schools. Advancement Project National Office’s work with grassroots partners significantly helped decrease student suspensions and arrests in Denver, Baltimore and school districts throughout Florida.
Judith Browne Dianis was awarded the Prime Movers Fellowship for trailblazing social movement leaders and was named one of the “Thirty Women to Watch” by Essence magazine. She serves on the Board of Directors for Friends of the Earth and the Skadden Fellowship Foundation.
Judith Browne Dianis lives with her family in Maryland and is a proud basketball mom.
Thena Robinson Mock
Thena Robinson Mock is a civil rights and community lawyer with over a decade of experience in racial justice advocacy. Robinson Mock currently serves as Program Officer for the Communities for Just Schools Fund, a donor collaborative that supports grassroots community organizing groups working to advance education justice campaigns. Robinson Mock is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, teaching Education Justice & Civil Rights Seminar, a course that explores racial & social justice issues in K-12 education policy such as school segregation, the school-to-prison pipeline, and ways that law students can pursue meaningful careers in service of movement organizing.
Previously, Robinson Mock served as Director of Advancement Project’s Opportunity to Learn Program that supports local and state-based campaigns to end the criminalization of students of color, Black girls, and LGBTQ youth of color. Robinson Mock also served as Executive Director of Rethink, a youth organizing and leadership development organization based in New Orleans and served as a Staff Attorney for the New Orleans office of the Southern Poverty Law Center where she worked to end Louisiana’s school-to-prison pipeline.
Robinson Mock is originally from Richmond, Virginia. She is a graduate of Hampton University and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Robinson Mock was named as the Fall 2015 Northeastern University School of Law Daynard Public Interest Fellow, a program for distinguished public interest practitioners. She is also featured in the 2020 documentary, “Childhood Lost: The Adultification of African American Girls,” a documentary film that explores the adultification of Black girls in the Pittsburgh region and the 2015 documentary, “Prison Kids,” an investigative documentary about youth justice in America.
Sameer Sabir
In 2013, Mr. Sabir lost his daughter, Rehma, to probable abusive head trauma while in the hands of a babysitter. Although initially ruled by the state medical examiner as a homicide, a change in the medical examiner opinion resulted in no further legal prosecution of that babysitter.
Sameer Sabir is a healthcare entrepreneur. In addition to being an advocate for families of victims of child abuse, Mr. Sabir is the co-founder and CEO of SevenOaks Biosystems and was the co-founder and CEO of MoMelan Technologies, Inc. Sameer is a graduate of the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program through which he earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an SM from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Dr. Sandeep Narang
Dr. Narang received his Bachelor of Arts from Auburn University (1990), his Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University School of Law (1993), and his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine (2001). He completed his Pediatrics residency at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD in 2006, and his Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship at the Kempe Center for Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Colorado in 2010.
He practiced as a trial attorney in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps from 1993-1997, participating in over 40 contested jury and judge trials as both a prosecutor and defense counsel. He has served as a General Medical Officer on the USS Sacramento (AOE-1) during Operation Iraqi Freedom, a Department Head of Pediatrics at the Great Lakes Health Clinic in North Chicago, and as a Fellowship Director for Child Abuse Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Centers—San Antonio & Houston (2010-2015). He assumed the position of Division Head of Child Abuse Pediatrics at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, in July 2015 and served in that capacity until April 2020. In September 2020, he joined the Child Advocacy and Protection Services team at Children’s Wisconsin as a Professor of Pediatrics, and serves in that capacity currently.
Dr. Narang is board certified in both General Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics, and has published on various medical and legal topics pertaining to Child Abuse. He is recognized as a national and international expert in Child Abuse and Neglect, with a specific emphasis in Abusive Head Trauma and Medico-legal Aspects of Child Maltreatment. He is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Scholarship in 2014-2015, conducting child maltreatment research and education in various parts of India.
Emily Putnam-Hornstein
Emily Putnam-Hornstein is the John A. Tate Distinguished Professor for Children in Need and the Director of Policy Practice at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also maintains appointments as a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Southern California where she co-directs the Children’s Data Network and as a research specialist with the California Child Welfare Indicators Project at UC Berkeley.
Emily’s current research focuses on the application of epidemiological methods to improve the surveillance of non-fatal and fatal child abuse and neglect. Her analysis of large-scale, linked administrative data has provided insight into where scarce resources may be most effectively targeted and informs understanding of maltreated children within a broader, population-based context. Emily is the recipient of the Forsythe Award for Child Welfare Leadership from the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators and the Commissioner’s Award from the Children’s Bureau. Emily graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology, received her MSW from Columbia University, and earned her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.
Virginia Pryor
Ginger Pryor has more than 30 years of experience leading child welfare and social services policy and system improvement initiatives. She is the Chief Deputy Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, where she oversees operations and services. Ginger is deeply passionate and committed to bringing hope to vulnerable communities and organizations through human service innovation, leadership development, and strategic system and policy reform.
Prior to joining the LA County Department of Children and Family Services, Ginger served as the Director of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, where she managed Child Welfare and the Office of Family Independence; Senior Director of the Casey Family Programs Los Angeles Field Office; and, Senior Director of Strategic Consulting with Casey Family Programs, a national child welfare foundation based in Seattle, Washington.
Her commitment to hope and inspiration also extends to her volunteer work as a mentor for youth in the foster care system, as well as her service as past Board Member and President of the Black Administrators in Child Welfare (BACW) – an organization whose mission is to advocate for culturally appropriate services for African American children and families in the child welfare system. She has also served as Adjunct Faculty for the Schools of Social Work at Howard University and Virginia Commonwealth University, working to prepare the next generation of child welfare advocates.
Ms. Pryor is also the Principal of Immersion Consulting, which allows her to demonstrate purposeful inspiration by building the capacity of individuals, groups and organizations to both lead and serve.
Michael Gregory
Michael Gregory is Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a Member of the Faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He teaches and practices law as part of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), where he is Managing Attorney. TLPI is a partnership between HLS and Massachusetts Advocates for Children, a statewide non-profit child advocacy organization in Boston. TLPI’s mission is to ensure that all children, including traumatized by exposure to violence and other childhood adversities succeed in school. At HLS, Gregory co-teaches TLPI’s Education Law Clinic, where law students both represent families of traumatized students in the special education system and learn and practice the skills of legislative lawyering to advance TLPI’s public policy agenda for trauma-sensitive schools. As a result of TLPI’s advocacy, Massachusetts enacted the Safe and Supportive Schools Framework statute in 2014, a first-of-its-kind law that creates a statewide community of practice to support schools and districts to create safe and supportive whole-school learning environments that serve as a foundation for all students to succeed. Gregory was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to serve on the Massachusetts Families and Children Requiring Assistance Advisory Board, and he is the co-founder and co-leader of the Massachusetts Legal Services Learning Community for Special Education, a statewide coalition of attorneys and advocates. Gregory is co-author of TLPI’s two landmark publications Helping Traumatized Children Learn, Volumes 1 and 2 and has also published in the area of special education law. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University. He and his husband are proud parents of a four-year-old daughter who loves dancing to Kidz Bop videos and sharing ice cream with her golden retriever, Roscoe.
Michael Rebell
Michael A. Rebell is the executive director of the Center for Educational Equity and Professor of Practice in Law and Educational Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also an adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and Chairman of the New York State Civic Readiness Task Force.
Mr. Rebell is also currently lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Cook v.Raimondo, a class action law suit that was recently filed in the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. The plaintiffs in this case are seeking to establish a right to an education adequate for capable citizenship under the U.S. Constitution for all students in the United States.
Previously, Mr. Rebell was the executive director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, and co-counsel for the plaintiffs in CFE v. State of New York, a challenge to the system of funding public education in the State of New York which has established the right of all students in the state to the “opportunity for a sound basic education.” Mr. Rebell has also litigated numerous major class action lawsuits, including Jose P. v. Mills, which involved a plaintiff class of 160,000 students with disabilities. He also served as a court-appointed special master in the Boston special education case, Allen v. Parks.
Rebell is the author or co-author of six books, and dozens of articles on issues of law and education. Among his recent works are Flunking Democracy: Schools, Courts and Civic Participation (Univ of Chicago Press, 2018), Courts And Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity Through The State Courts (U. Chicago Press, 2009 and 2017 Supplement,) and The Right to Comprehensive Educational Opportunity, 47 Harvard Civil Rts-Civil Lib. L. Rev. 49 (2012. )
He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.
Jennifer Wood
Jennifer Wood has worked in a wide array of roles in public interest law in Rhode Island for over 35 years. She now serves as the Executive Director of the R.I. Center for Justice, a non-profit law center serving low-income Rhode Islanders who would otherwise be denied access to civil justice. The Center is operated in partnership with Roger Williams University School of Law and serves community members in issues of critical concern that are identified as areas of unmet need by community partner advocacy organizations.
Throughout her career Wood has focused her practice in civil rights representation at Rhode Island Legal Services, the National Education Association of R.I., in private practice and as General Counsel to several state agencies. She has represented individuals and groups relating to education rights, children’s rights, rights of incarcerated minors, disability rights, employment discrimination and development of large-scale health and human services reforms. While in private practice Wood served as Legal Counsel to the Rhode Island Senate Health Education and Welfare Committee. She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, including government agencies, in class action litigation and other complex impact litigation.
Before taking on the role of Executive Director at the Rhode Island Center for Justice, Wood served most recently as the Deputy Secretary and General Counsel in the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The Secretariat is comprised of Rhode Island’s core health and human services agencies: Department of Children Youth and Families, Department of Human Services, Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, and Department of Health. The Secretariat also works closely with Rhode Island’s Health Insurance Commissioner and with Health Source R.I., Rhode Island’s successful state-level health insurance exchange. Prior to become Deputy Secretary, Wood served for eight years as the Chief of Staff and General Counsel for Rhode Island’s Lieutenant Governor. While in the Lt. Governor’s office and at EOHHS Wood authored major health care reform legislative packages and coordinated comprehensive health care and human services reform implementation in Rhode Island across government and with private sector leaders.
James Dwyer
Professor Dwyer has been on the faculty at William & Mary School of Law since 2000. He teaches Family Law, Youth Law, Law & Social Justice, and Trusts & Estates. His early scholarship was devoted to children’s rights in connection with education; he authored two books about the state’s stance toward private schools, especially religious schools—in particular, whether the state ought to regulate and oversee such schools to a greater extent in order to prevent educational deprivation and psychological or physical abuse (Religious Schools v. Children’s Rights, Cornell University Press 1998), and whether and on what conditions the state may, or even must, financially support religious schools (Vouchers Within Reason: A Child-Centered Approach to Education Reform, Cornell University Press 2002). Professor Dwyer returns to the realm of education with his latest book, a co-authored work entitled Homeschooling: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2019). In the interim, Dwyer has focused his attention on preventing child maltreatment in the home, making a number of bold child-centered proposals that he pulled together in a book released this year, Liberal Child Welfare Policy and Its Destruction of Black Lives (Routledge 2018). Professor Dwyer was a Visiting Faculty member at Harvard Law School in Fall 2019.
Rachel Coleman
Dr. Rachel Coleman is the executive director of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE), a national nonprofit organization that advocates for children who are homeschooled. Rachel Rachel completed her M.A. thesis at Ball State University, titled “Ideologues, Pedagogues, Pragmatics: A Case Study of the Homeschool Community in Delaware County, Indiana.” Coleman examined change in the homeschool movement over time, as well as local dynamics of homeschool networking. In 2012, Rachel was invited to be present at the founding of the International Center for Home Education Research, and in 2013, Rachel co-founded Homeschooling’s Invisible Children to draw attention to the role homeschooling can play in hiding child maltreatment. In 2018, Rachel Coleman completed her dissertation on the role of children and childhood in the rise of the Christian Right, and received her Ph.D. in history from Indiana University. At CRHE, Rachel oversees a research agenda that centers homeschooled children and works to inform the media, the public, and lawmakers of the needs of homeschooled children.
Lindsey T. Powell
Lindsey Powell is a homeschool graduate passionate about sharing her experience with home education and advocating for reform. She’s written about her experience in The Harvard Crimson and New Internationalist Magazine. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 with a B.A. in Political Science and currently works as a Patent Administrator for Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development.
Brad Karp
Chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison since 2008, Brad S. Karp is one of the country’s leading litigators and corporate advisers. Brad has successfully defended financial institutions and other companies in numerous “bet the company” litigations, regulatory matters and internal investigations. In 2018, Brad received the Special Achievement Award from the Financial Times in recognition of his legal achievements and leadership of Paul, Weiss and was also named “Attorney of the Year” by the New York Law Journal, “Litigator of the Year” by The American Lawyer, “Sports MVP of the Year” by Law360, and “Securities Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers.
Brad is very active in pro bono matters, and has received more than a dozen recognitions for his charitable service, including the Servant of Justice Award by the Legal Aid Society, the Judge Learned Hand Award by AJC, the Human Relations Award by the Anti-Defamation League, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Award by the Legal Action Center, the Impact Award by The New York Law Journal, and the Judge Simon Rifkind Award by The Jewish Theological Seminary. Brad is a trustee or director of more than 25 public interest and educational institution boards, and serves as chairman of the Legal Action Center, chair of Harvard Law School’s Annual Fund, chair of his 35th HLS Reunion Class, and a member of the Law School’s Advisory Council.
Brad frequently speaks and writes about pressing issues of social justice. Most recently, in 2018, Brad authored two op-eds in The New York Times, “Stop Shielding Gun Makers,” advocating changes to laws related to gun manufacturer liability, and “An Army of Lawyers for Migrants,” urging the private bar to address the unlawful treatment of immigrants and to seek the reunification of separated families, as well as an op-ed in the New York Law Journal, “Democracy Itself Is on The Ballot,” addressing the issue of voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
Brad is a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School and clerked for The Honorable Irving R. Kaufman, former Chief Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Brad has spent his entire professional career at Paul, Weiss.
Jason Flom
Jason Flom is the Founder and CEO of Lava Records, Lava Music Publishing, and Lava Media, LLC. Flom previously served as Chairman and CEO at Atlantic Records, Virgin Records, and Capitol Music Group, and he is personally responsible for launching acts such as Katy Perry, Kid Rock, Lorde, and Greta Van Fleet. He is a leading philanthropist and expert on criminal justice issues and an internationally recognized and celebrated public speaker. Flom is the founding board member of the Innocence Project and serves on the boards of numerous criminal justice reform organizations. He is the host of the hit podcast, Wrongful Conviction, now in its seventh season, which features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit, some even sentenced to death. Flom’s love for animals inspired his latest project, the children’s book Lulu Is a Rhinoceros, co-written with his daughter Allison Flom and released in June, 2018. The book explores social themes addressing individuality, tolerance, and most importantly, acceptance, and launched with partnerships including Bonobos, Zappos, and the African Wildlife Foundation.
Sunindiya Bhalla
Sunindiya is responsible for further developing, implementing, and scaling Roca’s exemplary Young Mothers’ Program and raising its profile nationally as a model Two Generation program. She is also working on developing fatherhood programs for Roca’s high-risk young men. Sunindiya has over 12 years’ experience launching and leading high-impact early childhood initiatives, and is a recognized leader in Two Generation work across Massachusetts. Prior to Roca, she was Senior Director of Educational Success at United Way where she launched and led several early childhood initiatives including Brain Building in Progress, DRIVE, and Shared Services of MA. Sunindiya graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in Child Development and a Master’s in Public Health. She also holds an MBA in Nonprofit Management from the Heller School of Social Policy at Brandeis University.
Martha Sager-Cutt
Martha joined Roca in 2016 and is the Director of the Young Mothers Program in Eastern and Western Massachusetts. Prior to Roca, Martha worked for 8 years at the Hamden County Sheriff’s Department in the areas of Forensic Mental Health and Domestic Violence.
Martha is passionate about working with youth and families and has held leadership positions in the nonprofit field for over 20 years. She has specialized in working with multi-systems involved youth and has a comprehensive understanding of child welfare, domestic violence and substance abuse, which she utilizes to be a relentless force in helping Roca youth navigate systems and create more equitable outcomes.
Martha holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Connecticut and completed her B.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Jason Szanyi
Jason Szanyi is Deputy Director of the Center for Children’s Law and Policy, where he oversees the Center’s work to end dangerous and inhumane conditions for youth in custody, collaborates with communities to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, and helps public officials reduce the unnecessary incarceration of children. Jason also has extensive experience helping jurisdictions implement the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in juvenile justice facilities. Since joining the Center in 2009, Jason has worked with or trained officials in over two dozen states, cities, and counties. He provides long-term technical assistance to jurisdictions that are implementing systems change, in addition to engaging in research, writing, and administrative and legislative advocacy for juvenile justice reform. In 2015, Jason was recognized by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as a Next Generation Champion for Change because of his leadership in youth justice reform. Jason joined the Center in 2009 as a Skadden Fellow. As part of his project, he partnered with the District of Columbia Public Defender Service’s Juvenile Services Program, representing incarcerated children from the District in a variety of legal proceedings. Jason has also worked with the Government of India on reforms to its juvenile justice system as part of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program. Jason co-teaches a seminar on juvenile justice at American University’s Washington College of Law and has lectured on the juvenile justice system at several other law schools and universities. In 2013, Jason was named a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow by Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising. Jason is a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School.
Jeannette Bocanegra
Jeannette Bocanegra served as an advisory board member for several juvenile justice initiatives in New York City as a voice for families. Jeannette has served as speaker and consultant for several high profile juvenile justice initiatives, including the Annie E. Casey Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). In 2015, Jeannette Bocanegra was awarded the Child Welfare Organizing Project’s Courageous Activist Award and later that year received the “Lo Mejor de Nuestra Comunidad” award from Comite Noviembre. Prior to joining CCFY, Jeannette was an active educational activist and parent organizer who worked to mobilize parents for more than twenty years. Jeannette noticed early on the deterioration of schools in the community as well as the lack of parental involvement in shaping policy and practice. Jeannette was involved in parent advocacy and educational reform through her roles as public school volunteer, PTA President, Vice President, and Secretary to Community School District 10 President’s Council. She worked as a full-time Parent Involvement Coordinator at ASPIRA of NY, providing professional development for parents across the City of New York. Jeannette took on the role in advocating for families with youth in the juvenile justice system based on her own difficult experiences as the parent of an incarcerated youth. She strives to ensure that young people who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system are given a second chance to become productive members of their communities, and to provide families with the tools and resources to help their children succeed.
Anne Dailey
Anne C. Dailey is Evangeline Starr Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, where she was articles co-chair of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Professor Dailey clerked for the Honorable Jose A. Cabranes, then of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Currently her scholarship and teaching focus on issues relating to children and law. Professor Dailey recently co-wrote with Laura Rosenbury The New Law of the Child (Yale Law Journal 2018), and they are currently finishing an article entitled The New Parental Rights. Other current projects include an article on children and the law of standing, and a co-authored piece (with Anne Alstott and Doug NeJaime) entitled The Legal Imperative of Parental Care. In 2017 Professor Dailey published Law and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Yale University Press), which won the American Psychoanalytic Association’s 2018 Courage to Dream Book Prize, the UConn Humanities Institute 2018 Sharon Harris Book Award, and The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis 2018 Book Prize. Her work has been published in numerous law journals, including the Arizona Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Texas Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. In 2002, she was the recipient of the CORST prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for the best interdisciplinary essay, a paper subsequently published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In 2012, she was the Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA, and in 2015 she was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Dailey is a member of the American Law Institute and on the advisory board for the new Restatement of the Law of Children.
Katharine Young
Katharine Young is Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, where she teaches the law of contracts, comparative and international human rights law, and feminist legal theory. Her scholarship focuses on comparative public law and theory, and human rights and positive state obligations. Her monograph, Constituting Economic and Social Rights (2012), was published in Oxford’s Constitutional Theory series and an edited collection (with Kim Rubenstein), The Public Law of Gender: from the Local to the Global (2016) appeared in the Cambridge series Connecting International Law with Public Law. Her recent edited collection, hosting over two dozen pathbreaking scholars of the emerging theories and practices around enforceable rights to health care, education, social security, housing, food, water and sanitation and other interests, appears as The Future of Economic and Social Rights (2019), in the Cambridge series on Globalization and Human Rights. Prior to joining Boston College, Professor Young clerked for Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG of the High Court of Australia and completed degrees at the University of Melbourne and Harvard University.