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National Honorary Advisory Board Members
The National Honorary Advisory Board is a group of child protection experts in the fields of law and psychology, all of whom share the FDC's mission of advocating justice for families.

Randy Hertz Print E-mail

Randy Hertz is the director of New York University Law School's clinical program and has been a clinical professor at NYU since 1985. He teaches the Juvenile Defender Clinic and has worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia in the juvenile, criminal, appellate, and special litigation divisions.

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Carolyn Kubitschek Print E-mail

Carolyn Kubitschek is one of the nation's leading civil rights litigators on behalf of mothers, fathers, and children who are caught up in the child welfare system. Since 1991, she has been a law partner with David Lansner in the law firm of Lansner & Kubitschek, which they founded as a private firm in the public interest, advocating for the constitutional rights of parents and children, using an interdisciplinary approach of attorneys, social workers, legal assistants, law students, and experts.

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David Lansner Print E-mail

David Lansner is a partner in the New York law firm of Lansner & Kubitschek. He has been representing parents and children in child welfare cases for 35 years. He defends parents accused of child abuse and neglect and has an active domestic relations practice.

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Dorothy Roberts Print E-mail

Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, with joint appointments in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology (by courtesy), and a faculty fellow for the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction and child welfare.

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Robert Schwartz Print E-mail

Robert Schwartz is the co-founder and, since 1982, the Executive Director of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Schwartz has represented dependent and delinquent children in individual and systemic reform cases and has testified in Congress before House and Senate Committees.

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