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Art: Speaker Schedule - Fall 2013

Below is the Fall 2013 schedule for Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (Course #2011). The class meets from 5:00 - 7:00 PM in WCC 2012 at Harvard Law School. Please see the Course Information, Syllabus and Schedule, and Assignment Specifics for further details.

Class	Date	Topic	Guest Lecturers
1	Sept 12	Course Overview	Elizabeth Bartholet, Prof. of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School Jessica Budnitz, Lecturer on Law and Managing Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School
2	Sept 19	Treating Youth Violence as a Disease: Sweetest Land Rough-Cut Film Screening	Catherine Fine, MPH, Director, Division of Violence Prevention, Boston Health Commission Thea James, Director, Boston Medical Center site of the Massachusetts Violence Intervention Advocacy Program; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine Jeffrey B. Teitler, Director, Envision Films and Associate Professor, Central Connecticut State University Lisa H. Thurau, Founder and Executive Director, Strategies for Youth *The Sept 19 class will meet in Austin West in Austin Hall, instead of our regularly scheduled classroom.
3	Sept 26	Kids for Cash, One of the Worst Judicial Scandals in American History: Efforts to Uncover the Truth, Provide Relief for Victims, & Prevent Future Failures	Marsha Levick, Co-Founder, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center R. Daniel Okonkwo, Executive Director, DC Lawyers for Youth
4	Oct 3	Use & Misuse of Social Science Evidence in Child Welfare	Brett Drake, Professor, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis Response Panelist: Andrew L. Cohen, Director of Appellate Panel, Children and Family Law Division, Committee for Public Counsel Services
5	Oct 10	Substance Abuse & Child Maltreatment: The Family Drug Court Model	Jeri B. Cohen, Circuit Judge, Juvenile Division, 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL James Dwyer, Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School Response Panelist: Ivana Culic, MD, Interim Medical Director, Special Care Nursery, Beverly Hospital; Attending Neonatologist, Children's Hospital Boston; Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
6	Oct 17	International Adoption: The Case for Change	Paulo Barrozo, Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School Whitney Reitz, Senior Policy Advisor on International Child Welfare, Office of U.S Senator Landrieu
7	Oct 24	The Campaign to End Childhood Hunger in America: Share Our Strength's Strategy & The Role of One of the Largest Corporate Foundations in America	Margaret McKenna, Former President, Walmart Foundation and President Emerita, Lesley University Bill Shore, CEO and Founder, Share Our Strength
8	Oct 31	We Shall Not Forsake You Haiti: How to Keep Attention on the Children of Haiti when the Spotlight Fades	Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health; United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti
9	Nov 7	TBA
10	Nov 14	Educational Inequality in America: The Case for Integrating Our Schools	James E. Ryan, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education Response Panelist: Damon Smith, Principal, Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
11	Nov 21	Bringing Social Enterprise into the Schoolhouse	Josh Brody, Director, Sequoyah School Eric Glustrom, President and Founder, Watson University and Founder, Educate!
12	Dec 5	A New Paradigm for Understanding Charity and Social Movements	Dan Pallotta, President, Advertising for Humanity Scott Sherman, Founder and Executive Director, Transformative Action Institute

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Last modified: October 02, 2013