Meet our Keynote Speaker Bernardine Dohrn Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic, and child advocate, is now working as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Northwestern University School Law, where she teaches "Women, Children, Gender and Human Rights," "Children in Conflict with the Law," and international human rights law. She was also the founding director of the Children and Family Justice Center for over two decades. Dohrn was a national leader of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Weather Underground in the late 1960s, during which time she helped to draft and was a principal signatory on the Underground's "Declaration of a State of War" against the U.S. Government in May of 1970. As a result, Dohrn was listed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List for over a decade. Dohrn is the co-author of Race Course: Against White Supremacy, the co-editor of Sing A Battle Song: Documents of the Weather Underground, and she penned the introduction in Letters from Young Activists. She also authored and co-edited the following two books: A Century of Juvenile Justice(2002) and Resisting Zero Tolerance: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers and Students (2001). Further, Dohrn is currently an advisor on the boards for the Burns Institute, the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, and the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Dohrn remains a vocal advocate for the gender, social, and economic justice and equality, as well as an avid supporter of the Center for Young Women's Development. As such, we are both honored and thrilled by her commitment to represent the Center for Young Women's Development in our celebration of 20 years defending the civil liberties of the hardest to reach populations young women in the San Francisco bay area. |
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