Director, Middleton Children’s Rights CenterAssistant Professor of LawAreas of ExpertiseEducation Law and Juvenile LawEducationJ.D. University of Minnesota Law School; magna cum laudeB.A. Wesleyan University; Middletown, Connecticut ExperienceDirector, Middleton Children's Rights Center since 2011Associate, Thompson & Howle (2008-2011) Attorney, TeamChild, Seatle, Washington Fellow with Team Child, Soros Justice Fellowship Selected PublicationsQuestioning School Discipline: Due Process, Confrontation, and School Discipline Hearings, 18 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 49 (2008)Brent Pattison and Anne Lee, Meeting the Civil Legal Needs of Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System, 39 CLEARINGHOUSE REV. 195 (2005) Can What You Don’t Know Hurt You?: Substantive Due Process, Zero Tolerance, and Weapon Possession on School Property, 23 CHILDREN’S LEGAL RIGHTS JOURNAL 2 (2003) Co-Author, Make a Difference in Child’s Life, a manual on the educational rights of foster children for caseworkers, foster parents, and lawyers (2001) Minority Youth in Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Cultural Differences and the Right to Treatment, 16 LAW & INEQ. 573 (1998) Civil Right to Counsel for Children in Education Cases, Presentation at “Raising our Hands: Creating a National Strategy for a Child’s Right to Counsel and Education,” ABA Children’s Rights Litigation Committee conference at Northwestern University Law School, October 2009 Look Who’s Talking: Testimony and the Child Client, Presentation to the Washington State Youth Law Task Force, Seattle, Washington, May 2009 Improving Dispositional Outcomes for Juvenile Offenders through Educational Advocacy, Presentation at the National Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit, Portland Oregon, October 2007. |
 “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” –Nelson Mandela |
