WHAT:

Panel Discussion: “Exploring a New GI Bill”

WHEN:

Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center – 12th Floor
120 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

MODERATOR:

Shirley Sagawa
Partner, Sagawa/Jospin and Founding Chief Operating Officer,
Corporation for National Service

PANELISTS:  

Peter Edelman
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Rob Gordon
Senior Vice President, City Year, Inc.
Former U.S. Army Colonel and Former Director, U.S. Military
Academy Department of American Politics

Joseph L. Galloway
Senior Military Correspondent, Knight Ridder and Co-Author of
“We Were Soldiers Once…and Young”

Darek Newby
Legislative Director, Office of Rep. David Price (D-N.C.)

NOTE:

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, the Georgetown Military Law Society, and City Year Washington, D.C., a member of the AmeriCorps network and one of 16 City Year sites across the country that unites Americans aged 17 to 24 for a year of full-time community service.

The panel will examine whether the GI Bill needs to be updated to meet the needs of service personnel and the constraints of a unified movement for military and civilian national service.

Media who are interested in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.