Panelists and Seminars

Dr. Plyer will provide background on how civic engagement post-Katina has been both successful and unsuccessful. Fellows will share their insights into how natural disasters have created civic engagement in their home country and what are the lessons learned that seem to work regardless of the geography.

CASA recruits, screens, trains, and supervises volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and/or neglected children in appropriate court proceedings in the Western Judicial Circuit of Georgia, in the social service system and with community service providers, thus assuring those children’s rights to an appropriate placement and transition to a permanent home. 

CASA’s unique organization can be recognized across many communities of practice. Managed by a volunteer board, and operated with little funding, CASA is an exemplary example of little resources, big action.  

The panel will discuss how free legal clinics are built, funded, and sustained and how they truly serve the most marginalized of populations. Q&A and networking afterward.   

UGA’s VP of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion will lead a panel that shares insights into diversity and inclusion in the context of the community and the University. 

Interactive discussion on the history of advocacy in the U.S.; discussion on the merits and disadvantages of tools and techniques civilly active groups/individuals have used in the pursuit of civic issues in the context of the U.S.