Advocating for Children in Migration
Multidisciplinary Symposium
On September 21, 2023 we held a symposium at the Fulginiti Pavilion that included panels focused on a variety of approaches to advocacy including arts and literature, law, medicine and behavioral health, music, and the performing arts. The exhibit, Art as Advocacy, the mural, Fly to Heal, and this multidisciplinary symposium all emphasize the moral imperative all of us have to speak out when we witness injustice.
Bringing this powerful collection of arts and advocacy projects to our Center was the inspiration of Professor Warren Binford, who became the inaugural W.H. Lea Endowed Chair for Justice in Pediatric Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Colorado in 2020. Professor Binford's dedication, passion, fundraising and planning, have enabled us to bring this timely and powerful programming to the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
Welcoming Remarks:
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH
Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Warren Binford, JD, Ed.M
W.H. Lea for Justice Endowed Chair in Pediatric Law, Ethics & Policy
Director for Pediatric Law, Ethics & Policy at the Kempe Center
(14m)
Arts and Literature Panel
Brandon Curl
Mirelle Ortega
Mauricio Cordero
Daniela Martin Del Campo
Andra (via Zoom)
Moderated by Sara Jo Fischer
(57m)
Law Panel
Joshua J. Schroeder
Mary Kelly Persyn
Scott Hollander
Hope Frye (via Zoom)
Elora Mukherjee (via Zoom)
Moderated by Warren Binford
(1h12m)
Keynote Presentation (50m):
Lee Gelernt
Lee Gelernt is the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigration Rights Project. Gelernt has argued some of the country’s highest profile cases, including a national class-action challenge ending the Trump administration’s practice of separating immigrant families at the border, and the travel ban on individuals from certain Muslim-majority nations in which he won an injunction against the ban only one day after the president enacted it.
Read, The Fight to Keep Migrant Families Together, in CU Anschutz News.
True North Duo
"The Ghost of Abuelito," was performed by True North Duo,
Kristin Grainger and Dan Wetzel.
(8m) Our apologies that the guitars were not recorded.
Muralism & Performing Arts Panel
Juls Mendoza
Kristin Grainger
J.E. Hernandez
Uziel Maradiaga
Moderated by Josina Romero O'Connell
(1h15m)
Medical & Behavioral Health Panel
Alan Shapiro
Ryan Matlow
Janine Young
Ewen Wang
Moderated by Paul Wise
(1h7m)
Closing Remarks
Professor Warren Binford
W.H. Lea for Justice Endowed Chair in Pediatric Law, Ethics & Policy
Director for Pediatric Law, Ethics & Policy at the Kempe Center
(7m)
Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities
13080 E. 19th Ave., Aurora, CO 80045
Open to the public: M-F from 11:30am-5:00pm
AMC badged personnel: M-F from 9:00am-5:00pm
Our Testimony series includes the newly commissioned Fly to Heal mural by Juls Mendoza; and the Art as Advocacy exhibit featuring the works of artists inspired by the rights violations of children arriving to the U.S. between 2017 and 2020.