On September 21, 2023, we held a multidisciplinary 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. 

• Watercolor illustrations, above, from "365 Days" by Andra
• Video archive of the day's symposium
• Also in the 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.