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Friday, March 17 • 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Beyond Implicit Bias: Litigating Race Issues to Protect Equal Justice in Child Welfare

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Racism—both explicit and implicit—shows up every day in child welfare, from removal decisions to placement decisions to treatment planning and lack of reasonable efforts. Byron L. Conway, Jr., teaches how to explicitly address this race-based discrimination by examining the framework the federal laws applied in the family regulation system and exploring avenues for attack in court through legal arguments, cross examination, motions practice, and more.


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Byron Conway, Jr.

Director - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Office of Respondent Parents' Counsel
Byron is a proud alumnus of the University of Michigan, where he received his bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and African American studies, with a research focus on African American political thought and political statistics. After graduating from UMich, Byron attended Boston... Read More →

Friday March 17, 2023 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
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