Art: Speaker Schedule

Below is the Fall 2010 schedule for Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (LAW-30691A). The class meets from 5:00 – 7:00 PM in Austin West in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. Please see the Course, Information, Syllabus and Schedule for further details.

Class	Date	Topic	Guest Lecturers
1	Sept. 2	Course Overview	Elizabeth Bartholet, Prof. of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program Jessica Budnitz, Lecturer on Law and Managing Director, Child Advocacy Program
2	Sept. 9	Drug-Exposed Newborns & Family Drug Treatment Courts	Penny Clodfelter, Program Manager, Family and Juvenile Drug Court, Jackson County in Kansas City, Missouri Response Panel: Ivana Culic, MD, Associate Director, Special Care Nursery, Beverly Hospital; Attending Neonatologist, Beverly Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston; Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School David Deakin, Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Family Protection & Sexual Assault Bureau, Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office
3	Sept. 16	Representing Abused and Neglected Children: Holding Attorneys Accountable	Erik S. Pitchal, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Founder of the Child Advocacy Clinic, Suffolk University Law School Response Panel: Andrew Hoffman, Managing Attorney for the Boston Office, Child and Family Law Division, Committee for Public Counsel Services Sally Padden, First Justice, Essex County Juvenile Court
4	Sept. 30	Race to the Top: An Insider’s View on Obama’s Contest to Reform Education in America	John King, Senior Deputy Commissioner for P-12 Education, New York State Department of Education; Founder and Former Co-Director, Roxbury Preparatory Charter School Response Panel: John Connolly, Boston City Councilor At-Large Richard Weissbourd, Lecturer in Education, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Graduate School of Education
5	Oct. 7	“Family Affair” Film Screening	Chico David Colvard, Director, Family Affair; Producer & Educator, C-LineFilms & the University of Massachusetts, Boston
6	Oct. 14	Children Dying While Incarcerated: A Reason for Hope	Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative Response Panel: Naoka Carey, Juvenile Justice Policy Advocate, Youth Advocacy Department Lael Chester, Executive Director, Citizens for Juvenile Justice
7	Oct. 21	Challenging Massachusetts’ Child Welfare System: Is Litigation the Right Path?	Marcia Lowry, Executive Director, Children’s Rights Inc. Response Panel: Marylou Sudders, President and Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
8	Oct. 28	The Prostitution of Children: The Hidden Problem & A Model Prevention and Intervention Program	Tamar Birkhead, Assistant Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Program Director, My Life My Choice Ann Wilkinson, Mentor Coordinator, My Life My Choice
9	Nov. 4	Beyond Juvenile Incarceration: Creating Better, Cheaper Solutions for Youth	Bart Lubow, Director, Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, The Annie E. Casey Foundation Tim Decker, Director, Missouri Division of Youth Services
10	Nov. 11	Impact of the Economy on Child Homelessness	Mark Edwards, Executive Director, Opportunity Nation, a campaign of Be the Change, Inc. Paul Epstein, Social Worker, Brookline High School; Co-Founder, Foundation to Be Named Later Sue Heilman, Former CEO, Horizons for Homeless Children
11	Nov. 18	Social Enterprises for Children: Creating, Growing, and Evaluating	Eric Dawson, President, Peace First Theresa Ellis, Founder and Co-CEO, Common Impact
12	Dec. 2	Reforming NYC’s Schools: Challenging the Status Quo	Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Schools Response Panel: Robert B. Schwartz, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, Harvard Graduate School of Education