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Schedule
Thursday, October 7, 2010
7:15am-8:15am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15am-8:30am
Welcome, Judge Charles F. Pratt
8:30am-9:30am
Keynote, Jerry Tello
9:30am-9:45am
Break
9:45am-11:15am
Morning Workshops
11:15am-11:30am
Break
11:30am-12:30pm
Keynote, James Bell
12:30pm-12:45pm
Break
12:45pm-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm-1:45pm
Break
1:45pm-2:45pm
Keynote, Sharon Draper
2:45pm-3:00pm
Break
3:00pm-4:30pm
Afternoon Workshops
Speaker publications will be available for purchase and speakers will be available for book signing throughout the day Service Fair will be open throughout the day in the Expo Hall
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James Bell, J.D., Founder and Executive Director; W. Haywood Burns Institute
Disproportionality |
James Bell is the Founder and Executive Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute.
Mr. Bell and his colleagues at the W. Haywood Burns Institute are working with systems and community stakeholders to reduce the disproportionality of youth of color in the juvenile justice system in over 40 jurisdictions throughout the country. He guides the Burns Institute's Community Justice Network for Youth (CJNY), a national network of programs working successfully with young people of color. Mr. Bell also works closely with the Casey Foundation's JDAI jurisdictions and the MacArthur Foundation's Models for Change Initiative.
Mr. Bell has appeared on Nightline and the Tavis Smiley show. He also authored the Unequal Justice section of the Covenant with Black America, a national plan of action to address the primary concerns of African Americans today by Tavis Smiley, as well as the Criminal Justice Policy Paper for the National Black/Latino Summit.
Mr. Bell has extensive experience in the international juvenile justice arena: He assisted the African National Congress in the administration of the juvenile justice system in South Africa; recently worked with Chinese officials and policymakers on alternatives for proven risk youth moving from the countryside to the cities; and worked closely with officials in New Zealand and Australia to analyze the principles and practices that form the foundation of their restorative justice systems.
Mr. Bell is the recipient of a Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, the Livingstone Hall Award from the American Bar Association, Attorney of the Year from the Charles Houston Bar Association, the Advocate of the Year from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Moral Leadership Against Injustice Award of the Delancey Street Foundation and the Local Hero Award from the San Francisco Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.
He received his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law. You can learn more about the W. Haywood Burns Institute and Mr. Bell's work at www.burnsinstitute.org.