Below is the spring 2018 schedule for Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice. The class meets Thursdays 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 |
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| 1 | Jan 25 | Course Overview | Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School
Crisanne Hazen, Assistant Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School |
| 2 | Feb 1 | 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
Claudia Postelnicescu, Claudia M. Postelnicescu Law Office, Bucharest, Romania |
| 3 | Feb 8 | Child Welfare: Foster Care System Reform | Deborah Dentler, Attorney, Law Office of Deborah Dentler
Garrett Therolf, Senior Investigative Reporter, University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program and Common Sense Media Mark Hamlin, HLS ’16, Associate Attorney, Baker Botts LLP |
| 4 | Feb 15 | Addressing the Cycle of Poverty: YouthBuild and “Opportunity Youth” | Dorothy Stoneman, Founder, YouthBuild USA, Inc. and Senior Advisor, Opportunity Youth United
James Mackey, Adam Strong, and Brandon Menjares, YouthBuild Graduates |
| 5 | Feb 22 | Child Welfare: The Intersection of Child Maltreatment and Parental Substance Abuse | The Hon. Jeri Cohen, 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, FL
Frank Vandervort, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School |
| 6 | Mar 1 | Education: Integration and other Strategies to Improve Disadvantaged Schools | Dr. Michael Hinojosa, Superintendent of Schools, Dallas Independent School District
Richard Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation |
| 7 | Mar 8 | Education: Strategies to Protect and Enhance Opportunities for Vulnerable Youth Populations | Matt Cregor, Education Project Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice
Eliza Byard, Executive Director, GLSEN |
| 8 | Mar 22 | Education: Systemic Reform Litigation, Policy Advocacy, and Community Organizing | John Affeldt, Managing Attorney and Education Program Director, Public Advocates Inc.
Saa’un Bell, Strategy Director, Californians for Justice |
| 9 | Mar 29 | Education: Reforming Special Education Schools | Stan Eichner, Director of Litigation, Disability Law Center
Jenifer McKim, Senior Investigative Reporter, New England Center for Investigative Reporting |
| 10 | Apr 5 | Juvenile Justice: A Successful Litigation Campaign to Eliminate the Juvenile Death Penalty and Life Without Parole | Marsha Levick, Co-Founder, Deputy Director, and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center |
| 11 | Apr 12 | Juvenile Justice: Ending Solitary Confinement through Public-Private Partnerships | Jason Szanyi, Deputy Director, Center for Children’s Law and Policy
Peter Forbes, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Youth Services |
| 12 | Apr 19 | Juvenile Justice: Working from the Inside to Achieve Reform
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Tim Decker, Director, Missouri Children’s Division and former Director of Missouri’s Department of Youth Services
Vincent Schiraldi, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work
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