Sparer Symposium Spring 2014

33rd Annual Edward V. Sparer Symposium

Friday, February 21, 2014

Gender and Social Inequality: Why Women’s Rights Still Matter

9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

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