Deborah Belle
Deborah Belle is Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston University, and a Fellow of
the American Psychological Association. From 1985 to 1990 she was a William T. Grant
Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Mental Health of Children, and from 1992 to 1993 she was
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow in Psychology at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Her
research focuses on economic stress, social support, and family life. Her recently
published book, The after-school lives of children: Alone and with others while parents
work, reports the results of her four year study of 53 children whose parents worked
full-time. Her other books include Lives in stress: Women and depression, and Children's
social networks and social supports.Bernard Hibbitts
Bernard Hibbitts is Associate Dean for Communications and Information Technology, and
Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He takes an
interdisciplinary approach to legal education, exploring with his students the historical,
philosophical and social contexts of the law. Professor Hibbitts' use of multimedia
presentations, role-playing, and other creative teaching techniques has earned him the
Pitt law students' Excellence-in-Teaching Award, and the University-wide Chancellor's
Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Hibbitts is the founder of JURIST: The Law Professors' Network.
He publishes frequently on legal history and on past, present, and even future forms of
legal discourse. His work has been printed in Law and History Review, New York
University Law Review, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, McGill
Law Journal, Serials Review, American Ethnologist , British Medical
Journal, Afronet, and Wired Magazine The former Rhodes Scholar has also
given lectures and presentations to numerous academic and professional audiences.
Professor Hibbitts is a former clerk for Justice Gerald LeDain of the Supreme Court of
Canada.
Philip T. K. Daniel
Philip T.K. Daniel is professor of educational administration and policy at The Ohio State
University and visiting professor of law at the University of Minnesota. He has been
teaching at the university level for twenty-seven years; in 1993 he received The Ohio
State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and was inducted into The Ohio
State University Academy of Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Daniel is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and served as conference chair for the
1998 ELA convention in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a member of the Author's
Committee of West's Education Law Reporter and is a member of the editorial board
of the Brigham Young University Journal of Law and Education. Dr. Daniel is a major
presenter at education law conferences, has authored a number of articles, and is author
of the book, School Authority and Student Rights: A Disciplinary Primer, and
co-author of the books Education Law and the Public Schools: A Compendium, and Law
and Public Education.
Anita Hodgkiss
Anita Hodgkiss has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice since April, 1998. She currently has
responsibility for the Division’s Voting, Educational Opportunities, and Coordination
and Review sections. Ms. Hodgkiss joined the Justice Department following ten years of
civil rights litigation as a partner with Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham &
Sumter in Charlotte, North Carolina. In private practice, her work focused on voting
rights, police misconduct, school desegregation, employment discrimination, public
accommodation, disability rights and first amendment cases. In the voting rights area, Ms.
Hodgkiss represented the Gingles defendant-intervenors, together with the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund, in the Shaw v. Hunt congressional redistricting case. Prior to the Shaw
litigation, she participated in a number of cases involving challenges to at-large
election methods for local Boards of County Commissioners; and cases raising voter
registration issues. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Ms. Hodgkiss grew up in a
racially mixed family. She and her husband, Jonathan Hodgkiss, have a fourteen year old
son, Dylan.
Valdimir Joseph
Valdimir Joseph is Executive Director and Founder of Inner Strength, an Atlanta
organization that helps young men find positive alternatives to gang life, crime and other
inner city problems. Motivated by his personal encounters with homelessness, poverty, and
gang life, a student at Morehouse College, Val Joseph, founded Inner Strength, an
anti-gang initiative located in Atlanta, in 1994. Joseph made a commitment to help young
men reach their full academic and social potential. Inner Strength's first members were 10
young men recruited from area housing projects and street corners. Volunteers assisted
with tutoring, mentoring, and guiding these young men into adulthood, a stage of life many
felt they would never reach. To date Inner Strength, Inc. has served over 200 Atlanta
youth with the assistance of 300 volunteers.
Bill Kearney
Bill Kearney is Vice President of Teen Services for Boys & Girls Clubs of America,
where he is responsible for the implementation of the TEENSupreme ProgramŽ, sponsored by
the Taco Bell Foundation. Previously, Bill served as director of delinquency prevention
for Boys & Girls Clubs of America (B&GCA), managing the Youth Gang Prevention and
Intervention Project, funded by the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention. He has overseen the implementation of the Gang Prevention through
Targeted Outreach program in 50 communities nationwide, and worked directly with Boys
& Girls Club-based gang intervention programs in eight communities. Prior to joining
Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Kearney served as the director of the R.W. Brown
Community Center in Philadelphia, directing programs for infants through adults in the
areas of day care, family literacy, child abuse prevention, drug treatment, and Boys &
Girls Club services. He has also served as associate director of the National Criminal
Justice Reference Service, program operations analyst for the New York State Division for
Youth, and as a child care worker for two juvenile treatment programs. Kearney also serves
on the advisory commission of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on
Public Education and the advisory board for Citizen Scholarship Foundation of America and
the Ad Council’s “Engaging the Next Generation” initiative.
Philip
Klinkner
Philip Klinkner is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Arthur Levitt
Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College. His most recent book is The Unsteady March:
The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America with Rogers Smith of Yale
University). The book examines changes in race relations in American politics and history.
His teaching and research focuses on American politics, especially political parties and
elections, race and American politics, and American political history. In 1995, he
received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section
of the American Political Science Association. In 1990-1991, he was a Research Fellow at
the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Wendy Bay Lewis
Wendy Bay Lewis is the creator of CivicMind.com,
the online community for lawyers and other professionals engaged in public education about
law. CivicMind.com features a matchmaking service that pairs lawyers with teachers who
have questions in connection with teaching about law and legal topics. Prior to founding
CivicMind.com in 1997, Ms. Lewis was Executive Director for 10 years of the Montana Center
for International Visitors, a nonprofit international education organization that launched
a democracy education web site for classrooms worldwide. In 1991, Ms. Lewis led a
delegation of civic educators to Argentina to work with Conciencia, Argentina's first
civic education organization. Ms. Lewis practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona for 10 years and
joined the ABA Law-Related Education Network in 1985.
Michael E. Manley-Casimir
Michael E. Manley-Casimir is professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Brock
University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. A student of educational
policy, he is editor of several collections examining different issues in the
socio-political context of education; these include The Development of Moral Reasoning
with Donald B. Cochrane (New York: Praeger, 1981), Family Choice in Schooling
(Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1981), Education Canada: Federal Provincial
Relations with George Ivany (Toronto: O.I.S.E., 1981), Children and Television: A
Challenge for Education? with Carmen Luke (New York: Praeger, 1986), and is co-editor
with Terri Sussel of Courts in the Classroom: Education and the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms (Calgary: Detselig, 1986). His particular interests, however, lie in the
intersection of law and educational policy. With Wanda Cassidy he established the Centre
for Education, Law & Society at Simon Fraser University; has conducted a number of
research studies on the socio-legal context of educational policy and practice-the most
recent culminating in the publication of Teachers in Trouble with Stuart Piddocke
and Romulo Magsino (Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 1998)
Diana Owen
Diana Owen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University. Her work
on American politics focuses on mass media, public opinion, political socialization and
learning, political culture, and elections and voting behavior. She is the author of Media
Messages in American Presidential Elections and New Media in American Politics
(with Richard Davis), as well as numerous articles in scholarly and popular publications.
She is currently completing Mass Communications and the Making of Citizens, a
manuscript that addresses the role of mass media in the civic education process. Dr. Owen
has been a Fellow of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture and an
American Political Science Association Congressional Media Fellow. She is one of the
founders of Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, and Technology Graduate
Program.
John J. Patrick
John J. Patrick is a Professor in the School of Education of Indiana University,
Bloomington. He is also Director of the Social Studies Development Center, and Director of
the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education at Indiana University.
He was involved in all phases of the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP) in civics. He was similarly involved in the 1994 NAEP in U.S. history and is a
member of the committee for the 2001 NAEP in U.S. history. He currently is co-directing a
research project on civic education involving middle-grades students in Indiana, Latvia,
and Lithuania.
Judith
Torney-Purta
Judith Torney-Purta is a Professor of Human Development at the University of Maryland at
College Park and Co-Director of the Developmental Sciences Specialization. She specializes
in research on the political and legal socialization of children and youth. She is a
Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological
Society and currently serves as the Chair of the International Steering Committee of the
Second Civic Education Project of the International Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement.
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