Sparer Symposium Spring 2014
33rd Annual Edward V. Sparer Symposium
Friday, February 21, 2014
Gender and Social Inequality: Why Women’s Rights Still Matter
Schedule of Events
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
- Michael A. Fitts, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
- Emily Turner L’15, Toll Scholar
9:30 a.m. Panel 1 - Recognizing Problems and Sharing Solutions: Sexism in Our Communities
- Carol Tracy, Esq., Executive Director of the Women’s Law Project, Philadelphia, PA
- Soraya Chemaly, Writer/Blogger, The Huffington Post, Washington, DC
11:00 a.m. Panel 2: Trafficking Women: Legal Responses to a Global Problem
- Hilary Axam, Esq., Director of the Human Trafficking Prosecution at the United
State Department of Justice, Washington, DC - Kimberly Benson, Founder of Bridge of Hope, Cordova, TN
- Dana Sussman, Esq., Staff Attorney, Safe Horizon Anti-Trafficking Program, New
York, NY
12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. Keynote Speaker and Discussion
- Marcia Greenberger, Esq., L’70, Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center,
Washington, DC
2:00 p.m. Panel 3: Women in Immigration
- Judy Rabinovitz, Esq., Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights Project,
New York, NY - Mary Giovagnoli, Director of the Immigrant Policy Center of the American
Immigration Council, Washington, DC - Pooja Gehi, Esq., Director of Litigation at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project,
Washington, DC
3:30 p.m. Panel 4: Domestic Violence and its Effects on the Family
- Judge Gail Garinger, The Child Advocate for the State of Massachusetts; Boston, MA
- Dorchen Leidholdt, Esq., Director of the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services,
Sanctuary for Families; New York, NY - Steven Berkowitz, M.D., Director, Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma
Response and Recovery, Philadelphia, PA
5:00 p.m. Reception