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rehabilitation. “There’s a variety of ways we are criminalized for life,” Simmons said. “I am working to change laws that provide more opportunities to people who have paid their debt to society and have rehabilitated, because redemption needs to be part of the criminal justice system.” If there’s somebody cut out for the job, it’s Simmons — a resilient attorney who overcame more than most to get through law school, and has already accomplished more than many lawyers do in a lifetime. “Tarra is absolutely

a punitive system into one of rehabilitation. “There’s a variety of ways we are criminalized for life,” Simmons said. “I am working to change laws that provide more opportunities to people who have paid their debt to society and have rehabilitated, because redemption needs to be part of the criminal justice system.” If there’s somebody cut out for the job, it’s Simmons — a resilient attorney who overcame more than most to get through law school, and has already accomplished more than many

Refugee Children: 50 Children and Beyond 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Hindsight makes the U.S. immigration policies of the 1930s and 1940s look particularly cruel, as so many European Jewish refugees were denied visas. This panel will address the role of humanitarianism in times of violent global crises by exploring the range of prejudices, laws, and economic factors that made it so hard to rescue refugee children 70-80 years ago. Panelists: Steven Pressman, director/producer/writer of 50 Children: The

Refugee Children: 50 Children and Beyond 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Hindsight makes the U.S. immigration policies of the 1930s and 1940s look particularly cruel, as so many European Jewish refugees were denied visas. This panel will address the role of humanitarianism in times of violent global crises by exploring the range of prejudices, laws, and economic factors that made it so hard to rescue refugee children 70-80 years ago. Panelists: Steven Pressman, director/producer/writer of 50 Children: The

Refugee Children: 50 Children and Beyond 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Hindsight makes the U.S. immigration policies of the 1930s and 1940s look particularly cruel, as so many European Jewish refugees were denied visas. This panel will address the role of humanitarianism in times of violent global crises by exploring the range of prejudices, laws, and economic factors that made it so hard to rescue refugee children 70-80 years ago. Panelists: Steven Pressman, director/producer/writer of 50 Children: The

Refugee Children: 50 Children and Beyond 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Hindsight makes the U.S. immigration policies of the 1930s and 1940s look particularly cruel, as so many European Jewish refugees were denied visas. This panel will address the role of humanitarianism in times of violent global crises by exploring the range of prejudices, laws, and economic factors that made it so hard to rescue refugee children 70-80 years ago. Panelists: Steven Pressman, director/producer/writer of 50 Children: The

Refugee Children: 50 Children and Beyond 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Hindsight makes the U.S. immigration policies of the 1930s and 1940s look particularly cruel, as so many European Jewish refugees were denied visas. This panel will address the role of humanitarianism in times of violent global crises by exploring the range of prejudices, laws, and economic factors that made it so hard to rescue refugee children 70-80 years ago. Panelists: Steven Pressman, director/producer/writer of 50 Children: The

University of Namibia. His career has focused on advancing the social, health, economic and educational sectors of countries in southern Africa, particularly of his homeland, Namibia. He has coordinated programs and activities of AIDS non-governmental organizations and conducted survey research within Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, among many other activities. Tjiramba was one of nine Namibian students who received their degrees from PLU after their newly democratic country formed a partnership with

Washington University in St. Louis. I will graduate in May 2003 with my MSW with a concentration in Social and Economic Development. The PLU Social Work Program helped prepare me for graduate school by emphasizing the role that the social work profession plays in promoting social justice on local, domestic, and international levels. The PLU professors got me excited about creating broad social change for disenfranchised populations. I am currently doing my practicum at Citizens for Missouri’s Children, a