12:00 – 12:05 p.m. Welcome, Dean Jeffrey S. Brand, USF School of Law
12:05 – 12:20 p.m. Welcome Address by USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J.
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. First-Hand Accounts
- Walter Riley, civil rights attorney and chair of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
- Doug Sovern, KCBS radio reporter
- Judith Faustin-Gabriel, Novato-Horeb Haitian Seventh Day Adventist Church
1:15 - 2:15 p.m. Cultural, Political, Religious and Historical Context
- Brian Concannon, director, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and chair, Lawyer's Earthquake Response Network
- Pierre Labossiere, cofounder, Haiti Action Committee and boardmember, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
- James Taylor, professor of politics, University of San Francisco
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break & dessert refreshments
2:30 – 4:30 p.m. The Response
Medical
- Dr. Barbara Newman, emergency medical physician
- Jeanne Krafft, registered nurse and activist with Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos
- Enna Trevathan, professor, USF School of Nursing and nurse manager, VA Palo Alto Hospital
- Especianise Loresca, Haitian medical student
Legal
- Brian Concannon, director, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and chair, Lawyer's Earthquake Response Network
- Margaret O’Shea, senior associate, DPK Consulting
- Karen Musalo clinical professor and director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, UC Hastings College of the Law
- Richard Boswell, professor and director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, UC Hastings College of the Law
- Holly Cooper, lecturer and associate director of the Immigration Law Clinic, UC Davis School of Law
Humanitarian Aid
- Anne Bartlett, professor of sociology, University of San Francisco
- Annie Blackstone, U.S. director, Sion Fonds, an NGO working in Haiti
- Mariam Danielyan, USF law student
- Pamela Keenan, resource development coordinator, What If? Foundation
4:30 - 4:45 p.m. Break
4:45 – 5:45 p.m. Student Projects
School of Law
Anthony Phillips on Haiti's debt to France
David Smart on Haiti's onerous debt to international financial institutions
Jeff Kaloustian on economic and social rights of Haitians in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Dana Isaac on her experience preparing Temporary Protected Status immigration applications for Haitians during a spring break project in Miami
Undergraduate Students
- Students Kalie Patterson, Anna Tull, Kelsey Jones, and Alia Al-Sharif on the Haiti relief bingo fundraiser, which raised $18,000 for relief efforts
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception and music: Kalbass Kreeyol
