Agenda
Day 1 Thursday, November 12, 2009
Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall
8:30 a.m. Registration/Coffee & Tea
9:00 a.m. Introduction and Welcome
Mary Louise Frampton, Faculty Director, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
9:15 a.m. Roots of Reproductive Justice
Moderator: Jill Adams, Executive Director, Law Students for Reproductive Justice
Panel:
- Lisa Ikemoto, Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
- Rocio Córdoba, Co-founder and Executive Director, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice & Expanding the Movement for Empowerment and Reproductive Justice
- Dazon Dixon Diallo, Founder and President, SisterLove, Inc.
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Power Plays: States, Markets, and Inequality in Reprogenetics
Moderator: Osagie Obasogie, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of Law
Panel:
- Sujatha Jesudason, Founder and Executive Director, Generations Ahead
- Charis Thompson, Associate Professor in the Departments of Gender and Women's Studies; Co-director of Science, Technology and Society Center, UC Berkeley
- Kimberly Mutcherson, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law
- Adrienne Asch, Director, Center of Ethics, Yeshiva University in New York
12:30 p.m. ReLawyering Justice & Lunch
Moderator: Sarah London, Attorney at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann and Bernstein
Panel:
- Rocio Córdoba, Co-founder and Executive Director, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice & Expanding the Movement for Empowerment and Reproductive Justice
- Jill Adams, Executive Director, Law Students for Reproductive Justice
- Angela Harris, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
- Luan Huynh, Staff Attorney, East Bay Community Law Center
2:00 p.m Underpaid Workers, Undervalued Parents: Supporting Low-Wage Working Families
Moderator: Melissa Murray, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel:
- Luan Huynh, Staff Attorney, East Bay Community Law Center
- Netsy Firestein, Founder and Director, Labor Project for Working Families
- Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of American Civilization, Brown University
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Poisonous Polish: Toxic Exposure and Nail Salon Workers' Reproductive Health
Moderator: Alegria De La Cruz, Staff Attorney, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Panel:
- Miliann Kang, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
- Risha Foulkes, Skadden Fellow, ACLU Women's Rights Project
- Lisa Fu, Representative, California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
5:00 p.m. Close Day One
Day 2 Friday, November 13, 2009
Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall
8:30 a.m. Registration/Coffee & Tea
Welcome
Alice Miller, Lecturer in Residence; Senior Fellow for the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law
8:45 a.m. Just Say Yes: Youth, Sexuality, and Education
Moderator: Priscilla Smith, Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project at the Yale Law School
Panel:
- CJ Pascoe, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado College
- Ben Peacock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences, American University, Washington, D.C.
- Alexandra M. Minnis, Adjunct Faculty, Epidemiology Division, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
10:00 a.m. Reproductive Justice and the New Biocitizen
Olmos Lecture presented by Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
11:15 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Repro Rights for "Wrong" Bodies
Moderator: Angela Harris, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Panel:
- Dean Spade, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law; Founder, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- Michelle S. Ballan, Professor of Social Work, Columbia University School of Social Work
- Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Indiana University - Bloomington
- Anne Tamar-Mattis, Founder and Executive, Advocates for Informed Choice
1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:45 p.m. Sexual Agency and Legal Status: Prisoners, Immigrants, and Transgendered People
Moderator: Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Panel:
- Priscilla Huang, Policy and Programs Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
- Franklin Romeo, Former Staff Attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- Kim Buchanan, Assistant Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Olmos Lecture presented by Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University
4:30 p.m. Close Day Two