Public Service Events
2013 Social Justice Tuesdays
Throughout the school year, the Center for Public Service Law teams up with a different student organization as host of this innovative programming series. Programming includes a wide range of events such as talks by nationally recognized practitioners, films with related discussions, discussions facilitated by professors (including non-law professors), debates between professors and/or practitioners and much more.
February 5 – Social Justice Tuesday
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
Speaker: Grace Huang, Public Policy Coordinator for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Host: The Law Women’s Caucus
February 12– Social Justice Tuesday
Who Deserves to be a Mother?: The History of Population Control and the Right to Motherhood Today
Speaker: Devon Knowles
Host: Incarcerated Mothers Advocacy Project
February 19 – Social Justice Tuesday
Law Students for Reproductive Justice Legislative Update
Speaker: Janet Chung, Legal Voice
February 26 – Social Justice Tuesday
Stealing from worker’s pockets: The prevalence of wage theft and
proposed legislative responses in Washington.
Speaker: Andrea Schmitt – Columbia Legal Services
Host: Student for Labor and Employment Justice
March 5 – Social Justice Tuesday
Education Debt Relief
Host: Center for Public Service Law
April 2– Social Justice Tuesday
Discussion U.S. immigration detention system and efforts to effect
reform.
Speakers: Signe Dortch, Director of UW Immigration Clinic and Betsy Tao,
Directing Attorney of the Tacoma office of Northwest Immigrant Rights
Host: Immigrant Families Advocacy Project
April 9 – Social Justice Tuesday
Post Graduate Public Service Fellowships
Speaker: Aline Carton Listjfeld, Assistant Director for Center for Public Service
Law
Host: Center for Public Service Law
April 16 – Social Justice Tuesday
Information session on the Moderate Means Program
Host: Center for Public Service Law
April 23 – Social Justice Tuesday
Prop 8/DOMA litigation pending before the Supreme Court
Host: American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, Law Women’s Caucus, OutLaws
and ACLU
April 30 – Social Justice Tuesday
“Challenges facing Diverse Attorneys”
Speaker: Chach Duarte White, Consultant for True Bearing
Host: Minority Law Students Association
May 7 – Social Justice Tuesday
"Making the most of your Public Service Experience This Summer"
Speakers: Shelley Halstead 2L, Bethany Roberts 2L, Darcy Kues 2L, William Kim 3L
Host: Center for Public Service Law
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Students: Sign into Symplicity to RSVP for Social Justice Tuesdays and Gates PSL events.