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Poverty, Race & Child Welfare

Please join us for a discussion on child welfare, race, and poverty. In collaboration with the Child Welfare Organizing Project, this panel focuses on how and why poverty is often framed as neglect in the child welfare system. This discussion puts the experience, needs, ideas, and aspirations of parents at the center of the conversation.

Panelists:
-Erin Cloud from Bronx Defenders
-David Lansner from Lanser and Kubitschek
-Michelle Burrell from Neighborhood Defenders Services Harlem
-Phalizyah White from Parent Representative
-Anequa Campbell from Brooklyn Defender Services

Later Event: February 14
Monitoring the Minimum Wage