Academic Advisory Board

• Khiara M. Bridges – Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law; author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization, The Poverty of Privacy Rights, and Critical Race Theory: A Primer.
• Juliet M. Brodie – Professor of Law, Peter E. Haas Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service, and Director of Community Law Clinic at Stanford Law School; co-author and co-editor of Poverty Law: Policy and Practice.
• Andrew Manuel Crespo –Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School; co-author of Criminal Law and the American Penal System; elected member of the American Law Institute; member on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
• Peggy Cooper Davis – John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics and Director, Experiential Learning Lab at NYU Law School; former New York Family Court Judge; author of Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values and Enacting Freedom.
• Premal Dharia – Executive Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School; former public defender for children and adults in local and federal courts.
• Christine Gottlieb – Co-Director, Family Defense Clinic, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law, and Research Scholar at NYU Law School.
• Martin Guggenheim – Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Family Defense Clinic at NYU Law School; author of What’s Wrong with Children’s Rights; advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement on Children and the Law.
• Josh Gupta-Kagan – Professor of Law at University of South Carolina School of Law; author of America’s Hidden Foster Care System in the Stanford Law Review; former attorney at the Children’s Law Center.
• Kristin Henning – The Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown University Law Center; author of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.
• Julia Hernandez – Associate Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law; former attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services in the Family Defense Practice; co-author of Clinicians Reflect on COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Looking Beyond.
• Leah Hill – Clinical Professor of Law at Fordham Law; Fulbright Scholar; author of Loving Lessons: White Supremacy, Loving v. Virginia, and Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System.
• Tarek Z. Ismail – Associate Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law; former attorney with Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project and Brooklyn Defender Services in the Family Defense Practice.
• Conrad Johnson – Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at Columbia Law School; Co-Creator of The Collateral Consequences Calculator.
• Sarah Lorr – Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Disability and Civil Rights Clinic at Brooklyn Law School; former attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services in the Family Defense Clinic.
• Nancy Polikoff – Professor of Law Emerita at American University Washington College of Law; author of Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law; co-founder of the Feminist Law Collective.
• Vivek S. Sankaran – Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic, and Director of the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School; co-editor of Child Welfare Law and Practice.
• Jane M. Spinak – Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; former attorney-in-charge of the Juvenile Rights Division of The Legal Aid Society of New York City; founding chair and current member of the board of the Center for Family Representation; advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law.
• Brian Wolfman – Professor from Practice and Director of the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center; former director of Public Citizen Litigation Group.

Community Advisory Board

• Ericka Brewington – Parent Advocate at Sinergia Inc.; parent who has been affected.
• Daphnne Brown – Director of Outreach at Families Together in New York State; parent who has been affected.
• Darlene Jackson – Legal Advocate at Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem; person who has been affected.
• Kim D. Kaiser – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Professional; Director of Programming and Policy at The Color of Autism Foundation; Systems Advocate, Community, and Family Empowerment Specialist, Trainer, and Speaker; former Child Protective Services (CPS) worker.
• April Lee – Peer Parent Advocate at Community Legal Services; parent who has been affected.
• Joyce McMillan – Executive Director of JMacForFamilies; Founder of Parent Legislative Action Network (PLAN); Advisory Committee member at The Center for New York City Affairs at the New School; parent who has been affected.
• Jean Padilla – Parent Advocate and Team Leader at the Bronx Defenders.
• Shrounda Selivanhoff – Director of Public Policy at Children’s Home Society of Washington; recipient of the 2021 Casey Excellence for Children Award; parent who has been affected.
• Desseray Wright – Parent Advocate; Founder of Blessings in Transformation; parent who has been affected.