At this free symposium, the focus on the country’s history of family separation and our current day practices before brainstorming about how to prevent unnecessary removals, protect family integrity and maintain connections with family and community. The keynote speaker will be Sixto Cancel<https://www.thinkofus.org/who-we-are/our-team/ceo>. The current list of panelists includes members of this group including Angela Burton and Alan Detlaff. Additional panelists include:
* Corey Best, Mining for Gold
* Sandy White Hawk, Author and Founder and Director of First Nations Repatriation Institute
* Michael D. Davis-Thomas, Founder of MDDT Speaks and Host of Resilient Voices and Beyond podcast
* Shemia Dillard, Joy & Justice National Collaborative (formerly National Crittenton)
* Tony Lodge, VC Fellow
* Christina Simmons, Office of State Public Defender (Mississippi)
* Robyn Wind Tiger, Generations United
* Prudence Beidler-Carr, ABA Center for Children and the Law
* Rafael Lopez, Maryland Secretary of Human Services
* Nena Villamar, Maryland Office of Public Defender
* Vicki Schulz, Maryland Legal Aid
* Jane Spinak, Author and Clinical Professor Emerita at Columbia Law School
On the evening of September 26, a pre-symposium book talk with Jane Spinak<https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/jane-m-spinak>, Professor Emerita, Columbia Law School, Alan Detlaff<https://www.uh.edu/socialwork/about/faculty-directory/a-dettlaff/>, Professor of Social Work and former Dean of The University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and Sandy White Hawk<https://boardingschoolhealing.org/about-us/board-and-staff/sandy-white-hawk/>, director of healing programs at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. If you can’t attend this event, Alan will also be doing a book talk at Red Emma’s in Baltimore<https://redemmas.org/events/alan-dettlaff-presents-confronting-the-racist-legacy-of-the-american-child-welfare-system-in-conversation-w-shanta-trivedi/>.
More details below and if you’d like to register the link is here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cfcc-2023-symposium-tickets-690877552357?aff=oddtdtcreator>. Feel free to reach out with any questions, please share with your networks and I hope to see you there!