Book Launch - Breaking Families, Making Families: Adoption & Child Welfare in the 1990s

Join author, historian, & physician Mical Raz for a conversation with lived experts, Karlena Hamblin & Shrounda Selivanoff, & legal scholar, Shanta Trivedi, about Raz’s new book. They’ll discuss how 1990s policy, including the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act, made adoption and the termination of parental rights central to U.S. child welfare, and what it will take to change course.

Speakers

Mical Raz

Author, Professor in Public Policy and Health, University of Rochester

Karlena Hamblin

Founder & CEO, #EndSystematicAbuse, Lived-Experience Expert & Community Advocate

Shrounda Selivanoff

Chief of Parent Representation Initiatives, WA State Office of Public Defense

Shanta Trivedi

Associate Professor of Law, University of Baltimore