{"id":35,"date":"2018-09-06T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/lppp\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2024-10-16T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:26:25","slug":"past-advisory-board-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/lppp\/past-advisory-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Director<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Professor Noelia Rivera-Calder\u00f3n is the Director of the Law & Public Policy Program. Having started their career in policy as a student in this same program, Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n now supports students in building their own skills as policy strategists. Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n\u2019s practice interests include the civil rights of K-12 students, school discipline and policing, and school mental health through an abolitionist lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n started their career as a middle school social studies teacher in North Philadelphia, which sparked their interest in education policy. In law school, they served as Program Director of the School Discipline Advocacy Service, a student organization through which students serve as advocates to K-12 students in school discipline hearings in Philadelphia. They supplemented their studies through internships at the Gault Center (formerly the National Juvenile Defender Center), Education Law Center, Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia City Council, and the National Women\u2019s Law Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, while still a student interning at the National Women\u2019s Law Center, Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n published a report with student co-authors, \u201cWe Are Not Invisible: Latina Girls, Mental Health, and Philadelphia Schools,\u201d which inspired policy change efforts at the national, state, and local levels. In recognition of their law school work, Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n was recognized as a National Jurist Law School Student of the Year Finalist and a Temple University Alumni Association 30 Under 30. Following law school, Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n continued at the National Women\u2019s Law Center through a Pride Law Fund fellowship, through which they focused on the educational experiences of LGBTQ+ students of color. Through this fellowship, they published an LGBTQ+ advocacy curriculum, \u201cBrick by Brick,\u201d which has been a resource to students nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a clerkship in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n joined civil rights organization Advancement Project in 2021 as the Right to Education Fellow and Staff Attorney. Through this role, Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n focused on supporting youth organizing groups in developing a vision for the liberatory education students need today. Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n developed a timeline, \u201cFrom Control Toward Liberation: The Fight for Education Rights,\u201d which has contributed to the organizing work of youth leaders nationwide. Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n also contributed to the National Campaign for Police Free Schools\u2019 work on abolitionist mental health in schools. During this time, they also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Temple. Professor Rivera-Calder\u00f3n maintains an active volunteer and pro bono practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founder of the Law and Public Policy Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Program was founded by Professor Nancy J. Knauer. Now retired, she taught in the areas of political & civil rights, property, and taxation. For the past twenty-five years, Professor Knauer\u2019s scholarship explored the impact of law and public policy on the lives of LGBT people.  She is the author of Gay and Lesbian Elders: History, Law and Identity Politics in the US and more than forty academic articles, books, and book chapters.  She has received numerous awards for teaching, service and scholarship.  She is the co-founder of the Aging, Law & Society Collaborative Research Network of the Law & Society Association and served on the Executive Committee of the Family Law Institute of the National LGBT Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Knauer\u2019s innovative approach to legal education earned a profile in the book What the Best Law Teachers Do, published by Harvard University Press in 2013.  The book featured 26 law professors who were selected from more than 250 nominees teaching at over 100 law schools. She has written two articles about the Program: a short Essay for the Law Teacher and a longer law review article about learning communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past Advisory Board Members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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