9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Each panel will be followed by an audience Q&A/Recommendation session.

Keynote Speaker

Gail Mellow, Ph.D

President, LaGuardia Community College

Featured Speaker

Roy Juarez, Jr.

Closing Remarks

Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito 

New York City, District 8

PANELS

Moderator

Ernesto Loperena

Executive Director

Council on Adoptable Children

Panelists

Gladys Carrión, Esq.

Commissioner

New York State Office of Children and & Family Services (OCFS)

Senator Velmanette Montgomery

Chairperson

New York State Senate Committee on Children & Families

Lorraine Stephens

Deputy Commissioner

New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS)

Moderator

Panelists

Rosa Gil, DSW

Executive Director

Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Ed.D.

Professor, Public Health

Lehman College

Hayley Figueroa, MPH

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Moderator

Commissioner

New York State Office of Children and & Family Services (OCFS)

Panelists

Rebecca A. Colman, Ph.D.

New York State Office of Children & Family Services

Michael Corriero, Esq.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City

Tanya Krupat, LMSW, MPH

Program Director, NY Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents

The Osbourne Association 

Moderator

Pedro Noguera, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education

Professor, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Panelists

Francisco X. Gaitán

Professor, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

New York University

Luis O. Reyes, Ph.D.

Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies