Judith browne dianis biography templates
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Art of Social Change Speaker Biographies – Spring 2021
Below are the biographies for CAP’s Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice spring 2021 speakers.
Elizabeth Bartholet
Nationally renowned child welfare kunnig Elizabeth Bartholet (Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law) fryst vatten the founding Faculty Director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program. She teaches family law, specializing in child welfare, adoption and fortplantnings- technology, as well as employment discrimination. Before joining the HLS Faculty, she was engagerad in civil rights and public interest work, first with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and later as founder and director of the Legal Action Center, a non-profit organization in New York City focused on criminal justice and substans abuse issues. Bartholet graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962, and from Harvard Law School in 1965. Her publications include: Nobody’s Children: Abuse and Negle
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Wiggin and Dana Celebrates Black History Month By Honoring Judith Browne Dianis
Judith Browne Dianis |
The Diversity Committee of Wiggin and Dana LLP has begun a new tradition this month: celebrating Black History Month by honoring a contemporary leader that embodies our core values while doing great work in the field. Our history is filled with examples of great African American leaders, scholars, and activists. But in focusing on the history books, we sometimes fail to adequately recognize the great leaders of our day, leaders who are working tirelessly to champion the same crucial causes as those who preceded them. We are proud to announce the selection of Judith Browne Dianis as our 2017 honoree for Black History Month.
Browne Dianis is the Executive Director of the National Office of the Advancement Project, a multi-racial non-profit civil rights organization that is at the forefront of a growing and vibrant racial justice movement. Her missio
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A Peek Inside Her Agenda: Judith Browne Dianis
Judith Browne Dianis is a civil rights attorney, activist and Executive Director of the Advancement Project, a multi-racial civil rights organization based in Washington DC. Judith has been involved with the Advancement Project since its inception in 1999. Judith helped start the Advancement Project’s Voter Protection program and is considered a pioneer in the movement to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Advancement Project, Her Agenda interviewed Judith to learn more about her professional motivations and the organization’s current projects.
Her Agenda: Let’s start with your upbringing and early influences on your sense of justice and fairness. One of your parents was an educator and the other a veteran of the segregated US army. Is there a childhood moment or memory that shaped your interest in law?
Judith Browne Dianis: I had an interest in law at a young age becaus