Jenna Baddeley
Jenna Baddeley is a graduate student in social and clinical psychology at
the University of Texas at Austin. Jenna is a student in James Pennebaker's language and
health psychology lab; her research focuses on the social aspects of mental
illness and personal upheavals.

Kristi Bowman
Kristi Bowman is an Assistant Professor of Law at Drake University and is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi.  She will join the faculty of the Michigan State University College of Law this summer. Prior to joining the faculty of Drake University, Ms. Bowman served as a clerk for the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, represented school districts in private practice at Franczek Sullivan, P.C. in Chicago, and worked for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights.  Professor Bowman has numerous publications in the area of education and civil rights.

Professor Bowman’s topic for the conference is “Rebuilding Schools, Rebuilding Communities: The Civic Role of Public Schools After Katrina.” 

http://www.law.drake.edu/facStaff/profileDetails.aspx?profileID=bowman

Meghan Butasek
Meghan Butasek is a JD candidate at Maryland Law School.  Ms. Butasek earned a Masters in Public Health from the University of Virginia while working as a professional firefighter in Charlottesville.  She has volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for three years and with the American Red Cross.

Ms. Butasek’s topic for the conference is “Information Sharing Manual for Children in Foster Care after Disasters.” 

Gerard Glynn
Gerard F. Glynn is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs at Barry University’s Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law.   Prior to joining the faculty at Barry University, Professor Glynn was an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Clinics at University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (UALR). While at UALR, he helped develop a juvenile / family clinic, mental health clinic, and mediation clinic. He has also taught at Florida State University and served as a fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Glynn is the founding Executive Director of Florida’s Children First, a statewide child advocacy organization. Professor Glynn has focused his practice and his publications on children in the courts

Professor Glynn’s topic for the conference is “Foster Care: Disasters Complicate an Already Bad Situation.” 

http://www.barry.edu/law/faculty/gglynn.htm

Ernestine Gray
Ernestine Steward Gray was first elected to the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, Section "A", on November 6, 1984 to fill an unexpired term.  She was re-elected in July 1986, October 1994 and again in November 2002.  A native of South Carolina, Judge Gray received her early education in the public schools of Orangeburg, South Carolina.  She graduated from Wilkinson High School in 1964.  She attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Louisiana State University School of Law where she engaged in the private practice of law.  She also worked with the Baton Rouge Legal Aid Society where she handled hundreds of family law cases.  Active in civic and community affairs, Judge Gray is a member of numerous professional and civic organizations and has served on many boards and committees many of which have as their mission improving the lives of children and families.  Judge Gray served as 57th President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and Immediate Past President of the YWCA Board of Directors.  Judge Gray has received national recognition for her work and is in great demand as a presenter and speaker on the local, state, and national levels.

Judge Gray's topic for the conference is "After a Disaster:  One Judge’s Reflections of Katrina."

Sharon Hall
Sharon K. Hall is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, Clear Lake.  Professor Hall is a consultant to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and is a frequent presenter around the country.  Her list of publications and reviews includes an extensive body of work in the area of children and child welfare.  Dr. Hall studies trauma and resilience in children.

Professor Hall’s topic for the conference is “Disasters and Psychological Risk in Children.”

Glenda Harris
Glenda Harris is a New Orleans native and a lifelong resident of the Lower Ninth Ward. Her early training and professional activity involved nursing and health care.  After many years as a community activist and neighborhood spokesperson, in 2004 she was appointed Director of the Advocacy Center of the Lower Ninth Ward, a pilot project focused on creating a voice for embattled New Orleans neighborhoods at the highest level of city government.  The day before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, she and a family caravan eventually entailing some 40 cars came to Houston seeking temporary refuge.  In January 2006, Glenda participated in the first field school mounted by the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston project.  A year later, she continues to reside in Houston and works as the Katrina Coordinator for the Children’s Defense Fund.

Ms. Harris’s topic for the conference is “Katrina Children More Than A Year Later.” 

Danielle Holley-Walker
Danielle R. Holley-Walker is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law.  She has published articles on desegregation, affirmative action, race neutral admissions policies, and no child left behind.  Her ongoing research agenda includes the areas of civil rights, education law and policy, civil procedure, and administrative law.  She graduated from Yale College with a B.A. in History and from Harvard Law School.  Before beginning her teaching career, Professor Holley-Walker practiced commercial litigation at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP in Houston, Texas and clerked for Judge Carl E. Stewart, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Professor Holley-Walker’s topic for the conference is “Charter Schools and Accountability in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.” 

http://www.law.sc.edu/faculty/holley-walker/

David Katner
David R. Katner is a Professor of Clinical Law and the Felix J. Dreyfous Teaching Fellow in Juvenile Law at Tulane University Law School. In private practice, he worked as an indigent defender, and has handled general civil and criminal cases including several death penalty cases. He is currently on the Board of the National Association of Counsel for Children, and on the Board of the Children's Bureau; he has served on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation, and the Jefferson Parish Juvenile Services Advisory Board. He is the faculty founder of the Tulane University Vietnamese Association, of Tulane's Collegiate Organization for AIDS Prevention, and Tulane's student chapter of the National Association of Counsel for Children. He has served as a member of the Louisiana Children's Code Project and legal advisor to Covenant House in New Orleans. He sits as an ad hoc judge in Orleans Parish Juvenile Court.  Professor Katner has authored numerous publications focusing on a range of juvenile related issues.

Professor Katner’s topic for the conference is “Rethinking Juvenile Justice in the Wake of Katrina.” 

http://www.law.tulane.edu/tuexp/facadmin/biotemplate.cfm?username=dkatner&status=faculty

Carl Lindahl
Carl Lindahl, Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor at the University of Houston, is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society and an internationally recognized authority in medieval folklore, folk narrative, and folklore fieldwork.  His book, Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana, was named Lousiana Humanities Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He has received a Fulbright  Distinguished Professorship as well as the American Folklore Society’s Alcée Fortier Award and a University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award. Professor Lindahl is Co-Director of Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, a joint project of the Texas Commission on the Arts, the University of Houston, and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, in which hurricane survivors receive training and pay to document the storm stories of fellow survivors

Professor Lindahl’s topic for the conference is “Archiving the Voices and Needs of Katrina’s Children.” 

http://www.class.uh.edu/English/faculty/lindahl_c.asp

Ellen Marrus
Ellen Marrus is the George Butler Research Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center.  Professor Marrus received her B.A., from Kean College; her J.D. from the University of San Francisco; and her LL.M. from Georgetown Law Center.  Professor Marrus concentrates her scholarship in the areas of children's rights, professionalism and clinical education. She presents at various conferences and seminars on juvenile law and clinical education.  She is the co-director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center.

http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/main.asp?PID=23

Malikah Marrus

Malikah Marrus, LMSW, is a research fellow for the Southwest Juvenile Defender Center (SWJDC), a program of the Center for Children, Law & Policy in Houston, Texas and is the social worker for the agency.  In this role she works as part of the team of local attorneys representing juveniles in delinquency and abuse and neglect cases. Ms. Marrus received her MSW from the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work in 2003 and was a Hartford AGIFT Fellow.  Currently, Malikah is working towards her Ph.D. in Social Welfare at Case Western Reserve University, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ms. Marrus will be presenting with Professor Wilson on “Family Structure, Health and Children among Houston Katrina Evacuees.”

http://msass.case.edu/doctorate/students/bios_co05.html

Lawrence Marshall

Lawrence Marshall is an elected representative on the HISD Board of Education and a strong advocate for Houston’s schoolchildren. A former educator with 35 years experience in the Houston Independent School District, he has served as a teacher, principal, area superintendent, associate superintendent, and deputy superintendent during his career. He helped pioneer the introduction of HISD Magnet programs, which have enjoyed nationwide recognition and replication. Mr. Marshall received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas Southern University. For his commitment to public education, he was recently recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Urban Boards of Education.

Mr. Marshall will be presenting with Professor Reyes on “Public Education for the Children of Katrina: Access and Documentation.” 

Victoria McFadden
Victoria McFadden is a Folklore student at the University of Houston. She is also studying Creative Writing. Ms. McFadden will be presenting with Professor Lindahl on “Archiving the Voices and Needs of Katrina’s Children."  www.katrinaandrita.org

Charles Ogletree
Charles J. Ogletree is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and the Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.  Professor Ogletree has authored numerous books and scholarly articles on race matters and the criminal justice system.  Prior to becoming a faculty member at Harvard Law, Mr. Ogletree was a public defender in Washington, D.C.

Professor Ogletree’s topic for the conference is “Katrina, Children, and the 3 Rs:  Race, Reconstruction, and Redemption.” 

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=49

Laura Oren
Laura E. Oren is the Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and the Co-Director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy.  Professor Oren has a Ph.D. in British history from Yale University and graduated first in her class at the University of Houston Law Center in 1980. After graduation, she was in private practice, specializing in civil rights (Section 1983) law and appellate work. Professor Oren teaches Family Law and Constitutional Law and her scholarship has often been about the intersection of these two fields. Her specialty areas of research have been in Civil Rights (Section 1983) and Family Law, and she also teaches Women and the Law, Conflict of Laws, and State and Local Government Law.

Professor Oren’s topic for the conference is “Child Evacuation and Public Policy:  London 1939 and New Orleans 2005.”

http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/main.asp?PID=32

Lawrence Powell
Lawrence N. Powell is a Professor of History at Tulane University and the Executive Director of the Tulane/Xavier National Center for the Urban Community.  Professor Powell received his doctorate from Yale University in 1976. He has written extensively on the subjects of the Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern history; Louisiana history and politics; and the Holocaust. He is also Director of Tulane's Campus Affiliates Program (CAP).

Professor Powell’s topic for the conference is “What Does American History Tell Us About Katrina, and Vice Versa?”

http://www.tulane.edu/~powell/

Augustina Reyes
Augustina Reyes is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies at the University of Houston College of Education.  Professor Reyes uses legal policy and qualitative research methods in her extensively publications on topics such as Zero Tolerance, Urban School Leadership, and Urban School Behavioral Policies, Language Issues and Race Issues

Professor Reyes’s topic for the conference is “Public Education for the Children of Katrina: Access and Documentation.” 

http://www.coe.uh.edu/database/facultytemplate.cfm?id=77

Anna Shavers
Anna Williams Shavers is a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She received an M.S. in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society. She received her J.D. degree (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. Her primary teaching and research interests are in the area of immigration and its intersection with gender issues. She also teaches education law and has served as a consultant on school finance issues on which she has also published articles, including one which focuses on the children affected by Katrina, “Katrina’s Children: Revealing The Broken Promise Of Education”, Spring 2006 Hurricane Katrina Symposium Articles, Thurgood Marshall Law Review.Anna Williams Shavers is a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She received an M.S. in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society. She received her J.D. degree (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. Her primary teaching and research interests are in the area of immigration and its intersection with gender issues. She also teaches education law and has served as a consultant on school finance issues on which she has also published articles, including one which focuses on the children affected by Katrina, “Katrina’s Children: Revealing The Broken Promise Of Education”, Spring 2006 Hurricane Katrina Symposium Articles, Thurgood Marshall Law Review.

Professor Shavers’s topic for the conference is “Providing an Adequate and Equitable Education for the Children of Katrina and Other Victims of Disaster.” 

http://law.unl.edu/inside.asp?d=faculty&id=35

Shari Smothers
Shari Smothers received a B.A. in Social Work from Southern University at New Orleans and her experiences include sales coordinator, media specialist and public school teacher. She’s a writer and an avid photographer. Hurricane Katrina caused her to evacuate to Houston where she has worked as an interviewer for the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston project. She is currently the project’s Archivist and sound editor. She has represented the project in many capacities, including appearances on NPR and Pacifica radio programs, presentations before the American Folklore Society and the University of Houston Women’s Studies Living Archive series, and as author of an article soon to be published on the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston website, www.katrinaandrita.org.

Ms. Smothers will be presenting with Professor Carl Lindahl on “Archiving the Voices and Needs of Katrina’s Children." 

www.katrinaandrita.org

Rick Wilson

Rick K. Wilson is the Herbert S. Autry Professor at Rice University.  Dr. Wilson is an expert on the evolution of American political institutions. He is the co-author of Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774-1789 (1994, Stanford University Press), and has published articles in a wide range of scholarly journals. He is a co-author of a recent study on Katrina evacuees. Professor Wilson is currently serving as Chair of the Department of Political Science.

Professor Wilson’s topic for the conference is “Family Structure, Health and Children among Houston Katrina Evacuees.”

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~poli/People/Faculty_profile/R_K_WILSON.html