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