2021 Archives — Page 2 of 7 — Children's Defense Fund

Cristian Franco Jr.

Cristian Franco Jr is a proud father of a teenage son. He has spent 10 years training, coaching, and developing his son amongst other youth ages [...]

Joe Davis

Joe Davis is a nationally-touring artist, educator, and speaker based in Minneapolis, MN. He employs poetry, music, theater, and dance to shape culture. His work [...]

Eric Alexander

Eric is a Senior Advocate with the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Children and Youth (CFSY). He is also a founding member of ICAN [...]

Shea Howell

Shea Howell is a community activist in Detroit where she has lived for 50 years. She is a co-founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs [...]

Ericka Dunbar lives in Atlanta, GA, and is Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible at Payne Theological Seminary. Her dissertation, entitled “Trafficking Hadassah: An Africana Reading of Collective Trauma, [...]

The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas

The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, 2022 Proctor Institute’s Theologian-in-Residence, serves as the Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and [...]

James M. Lawson, Jr.

Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., is a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence and was a key adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on [...]

Julia L. Davis

Julia L. Davis joined the Children’s Defense Fund-New York in 2018 as the Director of Youth Justice and Child Welfare. In her role she works [...]

Shimica D. Gaskins

Shimica Gaskins is the executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund–California. She has worked in law and public policy specializing in legislative, regulatory and policy [...]

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