CLASS AGENDAS

Agenda for April 27

3:40 | Welcome & Last Class Review

4:15~ | Policy Brief Quick Sharing

  • Meet with your discussion teams (find your teams here)

    • Each person discusses for 4-5 minutes:

      • What’s the problem you’re looking at?

      • What is one interesting or infuriating fact that you’ve learned from researching this topic?

      • If you’re struggling with an issue in your brief, what is it?

4:50 | Final Thoughts, Questions, Announcements?

April 25

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50 | Building a Life Outside the Law (by Zoom)

  • Bios for Helen Fremont and Bryan Porter

  • Student Q&A: Please use the “raise hand” button in Zoom

4:55 | Student Announcements

April 20

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50 | Career Transitions Guest Speakers (in-person and by Zoom)

  • Bios for Gillian Giannetti and Hanna Hickman

  • Student Q&A: Please use the “raise hand” button in Zoom if you’d like to ask a question; if you’re unable to log into Zoom, please let one of our student facilitators know you have a question so that I can call on you

4:55 | Student Announcements

4:30 | Pair Facilitators’ Kick-Off and Q&A Regarding First Jobs

  • Attendance link

  • Ask your question (of me) in PollEverywhere if you haven’t already — we will take questions live for the student panel

  • We’ll open Zoom for a few students who can’t be here

  • Grace A. and Lauren M. will kick us off!

  • Quick talk about grades/selectivity and Q&A about first jobs

5:00 | 3L Student Panel

  • We’ll hear from Taylor F., Meredith K., Demi K., and Jacob L.

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50 | International Human Rights Guest Speakers (in-person)

  • Bios for Najwa Nabti and Prof. Sánchez

4:55 | Student Announcements

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link

  • Open Zoom link for student who can’t attend

  • Malcolm L. and Lauryn C. will kick us off!

3:50 | Policy Case Study

4:59! | Student Announcements

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50 | Leading Public Interest Organizations

  • Bios for Fatima Goss Graves and Claire Blumenson

4:55 | Student Announcements

April 4

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Housekeeping:

    • Grades/feedback on Takeaways & Reflection #2 will be in by tomorrow

    • Team Discussion #4 Assignment is CANCELED: you’ll meet, instead, with your teams during class on April 27

  • Evan C. and Chris S. will kick us off!

3:50 | Child Advocacy, Juvenile Advocacy Guest Speakers

  • Bios for Shannon Sherwood and Erin Seagears

4:55 | Student Announcements

March 30

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link

  • Housekeeping: I have now updated Takeaways #3 to add the April speakers

  • Rose G. and Stephanie T. will kick us off!

3:50 | Community Lawyering, Movement Lawyering Guest Speakers

  • Bios for Harold Folley and Wyatt Rolla, Legal Aid Justice Center

    Harold and Wyatt will be leading us through some situational exercises to work through ideas of movement lawyering and organizing. Feel free NOT to take obsessive notes for your Takeaways during this portion (or during any speaker presentations) if you’d rather just absorb and be present!

4:55 | Student Announcements

March 28

3:40 | Welcome & Introduction of Guest Student Representatives

  • Attendance link

  • Student representatives for clinics/externships will each speak for 1-2 minutes:

Will remain in WB126 for breakouts:

Civil Rights 
Meredith Kilburn (also did Decarceration/Reentry)
Mary Merkel 

Criminal Defense 
Alyssa Shannon
Trevor Sikes

Decarceration/Re-entry
Whitney Carter (also did Holistic Juvenile Defense) 
Parker Kelly

State/Local Government
Erin Camia
Jela Shiver

Will go to WB152 for breakouts:

Holistic Juvenile Defense
Madeleine Hart 
Juhi Desai
Spencer Haydary (Youth Advocacy) 

Innocence Project 
Nachi Baru
Chase Gunter 

Int’l Human Rights
Charlotte Bilski Matthews 

Externships
Allison Burns 
Adam Younger (two externships) (also did Innocence Project)

4:00 | Clinics/Externship Breakout Rotations

  • We’ll do three, 20-minute rotations in which you’ll be free to ask the student reps any questions you have about their programs. Once you’re done with your last rotation, feel free to leave.

March 23

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link (no prompt)

  • Bios for Joe Charlet ‘18 and Hannah Fraher ‘19

  • Listen to recorded interview with Joe Charlet ‘18

4:05 | Guest Speaker Hannah Fraher ‘19

  • Hayley B. and Zach P. will kick us off!

  • Conversation with Hannah Fraher

4:55 | Student Announcements

March 21 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50 | Representing the Government & Planning Next Steps

4:55 | Student Announcements

March 16 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link (no prompt this week!)

  • Austin M. and Ben B. will kick us off!

3:50 | Representing the Government Guest Speakers

  • Bios for Laura Akowuah, Yan Gao, Sejal Jhaveri and Sarah Johns

  • Breakouts - about 20 minutes each after our introduction

    • Laura and Sejal will be participating by Zoom in WB126

    • Yan and Sarah will be participating in-person in WB152

4:55 | Student Announcements

March 14 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50 | Financing Your Public Service Career Guest Speakers

  • Bios for Dean Jennifer Hulvey and Assoc. Director Helen Dugger

  • PowerPoint

4:55 | Special Announcement from PILA

March 3 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link and prompt: “The glories of the world struck me…”

  • Housekeeping:

  • Mia S. and Zach G. will kick us off!

    • A note about paired facilitations going forward: As you all get more and more ambitious with your intro segments, I want to remind us that the goal of these intro segments is not to attempt a comprehensive summary of all the readings! Choose a few points from the readings that seem particularly meaningful. For speakers, don’t feel like you need to repeat their bio from the website. Here, too, I’m hoping you’ll share something about the speaker’s background or organization interests you.

3:50-55 | Systemic Advocacy, Part II: Guest Speakers

  • Bios for Aditi Goel ‘12 and Alison Mollman

4:55 | Student Announcements

February 28 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link and prompt

  • Housekeeping: practitioner matches are coming up; Takeaways & Reflections are looking great

  • Lauren L. and Sheena P. will kick us off!

    • A note about paired facilitations going forward: As you all get more and more ambitious with your intro segments, I want to remind us that the goal of these intro segments is not to attempt a comprehensive summary of all the readings! Choose a few points from the readings that seem particularly meaningful. For speakers, don’t feel like you need to repeat their bio from the website. Here, too, I’m hoping you’ll share something about the speaker’s background or organization interests you.

3:50-55 | Systemic Advocacy Guest Speakers’

  • Bios for Erik Grafe ‘00 and Leslye Orloff

4:55 | Student Announcements

February 23 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link and prompt: “Hence, whence all have departed…”

  • Team Discussion #2 - Assignment Finalized and deadline extended to Thurs., March 3

  • Nina H. and Swati M. will kick us off!

3:50-55 | Introduction to Systemic Advocacy

4:55 | Student Announcements

February 21 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50-55 | Values, Inner Peace, and a New Way of Working - Guest Speaker Molly Harlow

  • Bio for Molly Harlow, UVA Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service

  • PowerPoint

4:55 | Student Announcements

February 16 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link and prompt: “Life, friends, is boring. . .”

  • Practitioner Informational Interviews - Survey

    • See potential practitioners to interview here

  • Sabrina M. will solo-kick us off!

3:50-55 | Mission Impossible: Chasing Your Passion or Developing It

4:55 | Student Announcements

February 14 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link and prompt: “It is in the administration of rhetoric…”

  • Abby H. and Daniel E. will kick us off!

3:50-55 | Progressive Prosecutor Guest Speakers

  • Bios for April Russo ‘11 and Shannon Neal ‘14

  • Remember to think of questions for our speakers and take notes for your Takeaways & Reflections

4:55 | Students’ Announcements

February 9 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

3:50-55 | Public Defender Guest Speakers

  • John Williams ‘14 and Jordin Dickerson '20 Bios

  • Log into Zoom (use link in Canvas) with your audio off

  • Remember to think of questions for our speakers and take notes for your Takeaways & Reflections

4:55 | Students’ Announcements

*Service Team: Quick Meeting after Class

February 7 Agenda

3:40 | Welcome & Pair Facilitators’ Kick-off

  • Attendance link 

  • Housekeeping: Speakers Team meet for a few minutes after class today? Service team after class on Wednesday.

  • Sabrina S. and Grace Z, our first pair facilitators, will be our opening act!

3:55 | Poverty & Inequality, Part II and The Right to Civil Counsel

  • PowerPoint

  • Interactive lecture and quick pair discussion

  • Small Team Discussions - Federal Right to Counsel

    • Teams 1-3: stay in our classroom

    • Teams 4-6: go to Brown 152 (if taken, use 154)

4:55 | Wrap-up and Student Announcements

January 26 Agenda

3:40 | Housekeeping & Attendance

  • Mark yourself here! Dream Songs Attendance Daily Link

  • How we’ll handle social/speaker/service teams

  • Do you want to commit to sitting in the same seats?

  • Paired Class Facilitation - any questions?

  • A word about our readings this semester

3:50 | Theories of Justice in Practice - Distributive Justice

  • PowerPoint

  • Interactive Lecture and Discussion (about Vox article)

    • What is the most compelling statement/argument for you that this article makes?

    • Is the goal of eliminating the “underclass” (and attaining something like equal outcomes for all) incompatible with promoting equality of opportunity?

    • Are we wasting time and money by researching opportunity—both equal and unequal?

  • Mental Health Emergency Response Case Study

4:55 | Student Announcements

  • Just raise your hand if you want to share announcements about your student org, deadlines, or other events that might be interesting for your classmates to hear

January 24 Agenda

**Please make a name tent for yourself - write big! - for our first few classes**

3:40 | Welcome & Attendance Via Personality Photos

4:15 | What We’re Doing This Semester & Why

  • Using the Class Agendas and Course Schedule

  • What are the readings and why isn’t there a case book?

  • How will team discussions work?

  • How will paired class facilitation work?

  • What are takeaways & reflections?

  • What are the protocols for classes with speakers?

  • How does grading work? Questions about the syllabus?

  • Who will the speakers be?

4:35 | Co-Creating this Class (a few ways)

  • Sign up (optional!) if you want to work with classmates to brainstorm additional speakers, organize social activities for the class, or organize a service project for the class

4:40~ | Meeting Your Classmates (we’ll leave class and go to the Caplin Auditorium lobby)

  • Team Assignments (#1-8 - if you didn’t fill out your preference form, join a team with space). To kick things off, tell everyone your name and one podcast or TV show you’d recommend.