Opening Statements and Questions
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
Assembly Member Brian Maher
Testimony and Questions
Suzanne Miles-Gustave, Esq. Acting Commissioner, New York State Office of Children and Family Services
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
Assembly Member Brian Maher
Assembly Member Brian Cunningham
Assembly Member Taylor Darling
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Taylor Darling
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Brian Maher
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Jess Dannhauser, Commissioner, New York City Administration for Children's Services
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Taylor Darling
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
Assembly Member Brian Maher
Assembly Member Taylor Darling
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
Assembly Member Taylor Darling
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
PANEL A
Kyra Batte, Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum, The Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund
Zachary Ahmad, Senior Policy Counsel, New York Civil Liberties Union
Erinma Ukoha, MD, MPH, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow, Obstetrician, Columbia University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Megha Sardana, Project Director, Safe Horizon
Brandon Roiger, Youth Worker, Chaplain, and Master of Social Work Student
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Taylor Darling
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
Assembly Member Brian Maher
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
PANEL B
Joyce McMillan, Executive Director, Just Making a Change for Families
Kmea Jones, Parent, Just Making a Change for Families
Angelica Charles, Parent, Just Making a Change for Families
Desseray Wright, Parent/Policy Advocate, The Bronx Defenders
Heather Imperiale, Parent, Just Making a Change for Families
Assembly Member Brian Maher
Alexis Warnic, Parent, Just Making a Change for Families
Davene Roseborough, Just Making a Change for Families
Sai Malena Jimenez, Parent, Just Making a Change for Families
Latia Govan, Parent, Just Making a Change for Families
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
PANEL C
Chantal O'Brien, Advocate
Jeanette Vega, Executive Director, Rise
Cassandra Gonzalez, Program Support Manager, Rise
Jasmine Wali, MSW, Child Welfare Policy Consultant
Rosalind Walker, Educator and Advocate
Marina Umanskaya, MSED, True Freedom Life Foundation, Executive Director
Pamela Adams, Community Advocate
Tanesha Grant, Executive Director, Parents Supporting Parents NY
Amara Stanislaus, Community Organizer, Home is a Human Right
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
PANEL D
Crystal Charles, Senior Policy Analyst, Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
Dr. Sophine Charles, Associate Executive Director, Downstate, Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies
Kimberly Schertz
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Sarah Clark
PANEL E
Jennifer Feinberg, Litigation Supervisor for Policy and Government Affairs, Center for Family Representation
Sean Eagan, Esq., Policy Counsel, Family Defense Practice, The Bronx Defenders
Shalonda Curtis-Hackett, Community Outreach Coordinator, Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem
Ericka Brewington, Client Advocate, Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem
Nila Natarajan, Associate Director of Policy and Family Defense, Family Defense Practice, Brooklyn Defenders Services
Assemblymember Sarah Clark
Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi
PANEL F
Muna Heaven, Assistant Executive Director/ Legal Counsel, The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Pat O'Brien, Executive Director, Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York
Meredith Giovanelli, Policy Analyst, Children's Rights
Asseblymember Andrew Hevesi
PANEL G
Hope Lyzette Newton, Program Officer, Community Partnerships, Redlich Horwitz Foundation
Lauren Wranosky, Policy and Program Associate, Pregnancy Justice
Josh Gupta-Kagan, Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Family Defense Clinic
Haiti Perez, Youth Represent
Khadijah Jones, Youth Represent
Ronald Richter, CEO, JCCA
Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi
Closing