[Hamp-law] Next week, Alum 1-2-1 with Barbara Shufro, 72F, lawyer & education advocate

[Career Options]

On Monday 4/24 and Tuesday 4/25, CORC welcomes lawyer and special needs 
education advocate Barbara Shufro, 72F, to campus. Barbara has spent 15+ 
years championing educational rights for all children, and she is 
willing to share her insights about how to establish programs to help 
underserved populations. She is an attorney with the Law Foundation of 
Silicon Valley in San Jose, specializing in helping families navigate 
the IEP process.

The Alum 1-2-1 program is your chance to have a 30-minute informal 
conversation with a Hampshire alum. It's an opportunity to brainstorm, 
ask questions, and bounce ideas off alums who are spending their lives 
doing what they love. Use CORC's online scheduler found at 
corc.hampshire.edu to sign up for a 30-minute meeting with Barbara 
(scroll down and click the yellow “Schedule an Appointment” button). Be 
sure to include your division, phone number, and a brief note about your 
interests and questions.

Appointment times are available at 1:15 or 1:45 on Monday, April 24^th 
and Tuesday April 25^th and are filled on a first-come, first-served 
basis. Students of all Division levels (and recent grads!) are welcome 
to schedule a meeting.

If all time spots are filled, please call or email Sue to be added to 
the wait list (413.559.5445 or sking at hampshire.edu).


Barbara's bio:

Barbara Shufro 72F graduated from Hampshire College with a concentration 
in political science and a Div III project analyzing the effect of 
citizen participation in local governments.  She worked as an advocate 
at Western Mass. Legal Services in Holyoke and went on to receive her 
law degree from Northeastern University School of Law, and her Masters 
of Law from Georgetown University Law Center. Barbara left private 
practice to become an active volunteer advocating for greater 
educational inclusion in the Palo Alto Unified School District. She has 
spent the past 15 years championing the rights of students with IEPs; 
she chaired the local Citizen Advisory Council for Special Education and 
created Palo Alto's first inclusion programs, including the 
establishment of "Inclusive Schools Week" programming in all the schools 
and a PTA program run at every school on ability awareness.  For the 
past several years, she has worked as a nearly full-time volunteer 
attorney with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley in San Jose, 
counseling and representing more than one hundred low-income families 
whose special-education needs were not being met by their public school 
districts.  She is now working to create a website to help families 
navigate the IEP process, particularly for children with "invisible 
disabilities."


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Career Options Resource Center
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