Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The video includes the below panels from our March 16th Symposium
- Education Panel
- Gender and Sexuality Panel
Education Panel
The Education panel will explore the ways in which this administration's policies negatively impact Black students. Panelists will discuss topics including, but not limited to, the school-to-prison pipeline, increased funding for charter schools in conjunction with decreased funding for traditional public schools, access to higher education, and changes to financial aid. Our panelists are:
Cheryl Harris
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA Law
Jonathan Glater
Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law
Steven Nelson
Assistant Professor of Leadership & Policy Studies at University of Memphis
Kimberly West-Faulcon
James P. Bradley Chair in Constitutional Law at Loyola Law School
Moderator: Caleb Jackson
UCLA School of Law, J.D. '18
Gender & Sexuality Panel
The Gender and Sexuality panel will interrogate the threat that this administration poses to Black women and the LGBTQ community, as well as the tools of advocacy we should employ as lawyers and activists to combat these threats. Panelists will discuss topics including, but not limited to, the administration's attack on women's reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, and protections against sexual assault through an intersectional lens. Our panelists are:
Michele Goodwin
Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law
Russell Robinson
Distinguished HAAS Chair in LGBT Equity Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law
Moderator: Akiesha Anderson
Daniel H. Renberg Law Fellow
The video includes the below panels from our March 16th Symposium
- Education Panel
- Gender and Sexuality Panel
Education Panel
The Education panel will explore the ways in which this administration's policies negatively impact Black students. Panelists will discuss topics including, but not limited to, the school-to-prison pipeline, increased funding for charter schools in conjunction with decreased funding for traditional public schools, access to higher education, and changes to financial aid. Our panelists are:
Cheryl Harris
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA Law
Jonathan Glater
Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law
Steven Nelson
Assistant Professor of Leadership & Policy Studies at University of Memphis
Kimberly West-Faulcon
James P. Bradley Chair in Constitutional Law at Loyola Law School
Moderator: Caleb Jackson
UCLA School of Law, J.D. '18
Gender & Sexuality Panel
The Gender and Sexuality panel will interrogate the threat that this administration poses to Black women and the LGBTQ community, as well as the tools of advocacy we should employ as lawyers and activists to combat these threats. Panelists will discuss topics including, but not limited to, the administration's attack on women's reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, and protections against sexual assault through an intersectional lens. Our panelists are:
Michele Goodwin
Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law
Russell Robinson
Distinguished HAAS Chair in LGBT Equity Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law
Moderator: Akiesha Anderson
Daniel H. Renberg Law Fellow

![CRS 25th Anniversary Symposium- Moral Panic and Moral Dilemma: CRT & the Reckoning of Our Democracy
While vilified and mischaracterized in the contemporary American imagination, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the very analytical tool that can help America reckon with its unjust past and chart a racially just future. CRT recognizes that America’s past is not distant from its current reality. In the last text he wrote before his murder, Martin Luther King, Jr. observed that “[n]o society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.” The Fugitive Slave Act of yesterday echoes in today’s anti-immigrant policies—fueled by racism and xenophobia. Slavery’s denial of education for enslaved (and some free) Black people reappears in the substandard opportunities still reserved for Black children in segregated, under-resourced schools.
CRT teaches that the past is prologue and that cycles of inequality perpetuate unless interrupted. At bottom, tactics of racial oppression—past and present—seek to erase the power, perseverance, and political participation of Black people and other communities of color. CRT not only exposes this agenda but also provides a blueprint for building a more racially just democracy. This is why CRT has long been both a target, as seen in the current moral panic about CRT, DEI, and other equity efforts, and an emancipatory tool.
This panel will bring together legal scholars and policy advocates who use CRT to expose the law’s complicity in racial inequality. Panelists will explore how CRT can help America confront its past and advance justice in democracy, immigration, and education.
•Janel George, Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director, Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic, Georgetown Law
•Cara McClellan, Founding Director and Practice Associate Professor of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
•Karla McKanders, Director, Thurgood Marshall Institute, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
•Jin Hee Lee, Director of Strategic Initiatives, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. CRS 25th Anniversary Symposium- Moral Panic and Moral Dilemma: CRT & the Reckoning of Our Democracy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mrrX8EssmXg/mqdefault.jpg)








