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Saturday, May 5
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut Street
Free.
The current patchwork of laws concerning same-sex couples and families often leaves children the most vulnerable to the whims of society and government. Guardianship, identity, adoption, and health care, among other issues, create a unique set of circumstances for GLBT families. This panel explores how these families survive and succeed in today's tumultuous environment.
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Jenn Chrisler (Moderator)
Executive Director, Family Pride Coalition
Jenn Crisler is Executive Director of Family Pride Coalition, a national organization dedicated to securing equality for LGBT parents and families. Her past work as a fundraising consultant was honored in 2002 by the Massachusetts Freedom to Marry Coalition and in 2001 by the Human Rights Campaign. |
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Terry Boggis
Director, Center Kids, NYC LGBT Community Center
Terry Boggis is Director of Center Kids at the LGBT Community Center in New York City. Terry has published and contributed to articles on LGBT family issues in The New York Times and Out magazine, among other publications. She has helped produce related programming for several major television networks. |
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Dorothy Greenfeld
Psychological Services Director, Center for Surrogate Parenthood, Yale Medical School
Dorothy Greenfeld is Director of Psychological Services of the Yale Fertility Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale University School of Medicine. She has counseled couples seeking parenthood through assisted reproduction in the Yale program since 1982. She is a founding member of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. |
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Adam Pertman
Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Adam Pertman is Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of Adoption Nation, which has been hailed as "the most important book ever written on the subject." He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his writing about adoption in The Boston Globe and has received numerous awards for his work. |
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Steven Sokoll, M.D.
Family Therapist
Steven Sokoll is a family therapist and a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He lectures extensively on child and adolescent social and sexual development. |
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