34th National Child Welfare Law Conference
2011: Eliminating Unintended Bias
August 29–September 1, 2011 in San Diego, CA
Keynote Address: All Alone in the World: A Child’s Eye View of Criminal Justice
Presented by Nell Bernstein, Coordinator of the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, and Contributing Editor at New America Media
Plenary Session I: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Presented by Father Greg Boyle, SJ, and two Homeboys
Fr. Greg is a Jesuit priest and the Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy industries, a nonprofit organization and the largest gang intervention and re-entry program in the country.
Plenary Session II: Bias: Impact on Decision-Makers
Presented by Rita Cameron Wedding, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies and Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento, CA
View the program from this conference as a PDF.
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