ODOS: Lawyers in Balance

Program Facilitators
	Jane H. Aiken Professor Aiken joined the Georgetown faculty in the Fall 2007 after ten years at Washington University School of Law where she was the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law. She was a Root-Tilden Scholar and graduated from New York University School of Law. She received her LLM from Georgetown Law Center as a fellow in the Center for Applied Legal Studies. She is well-known for her work in clinical legal education and evidence. While at Washington University, she was the Director of the Civil Justice Clinic in which students act as lawyers under supervision in cases involving a wide array of legal issues focusing on abuse of power. These cases include domestic violence against women and children, clemency and parole, police brutality, municipal violations involving resisting arrest and habeas and Section 1983 complex litigation. She has taught evidence for 20 years and teaches it occasionally for the Federal Judicial Center. She is an American Bar Foundation Fellow and the co-chair of the ABA Women’s Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. Professor Aiken was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Tribhuvan Law Campus in Kathmandu, Nepal during the Fall of 2001 and continues her work there, particularly in the area of women’s rights. In 2000 and 2001, Professor Aiken was a Carnegie Scholar in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Her research and writing include many articles about character evidence, domestic violence, and critical pedagogy.
	Lawrence J. Center Lawrence J. Center is Assistant Dean for Academic Conferences and Continuing Legal Education. He has headed the Continuing Legal Education Department at Georgetown Law since 1985. During that time, Larry has served as the President of the Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) and as Chair of the Section of Continuing Legal Education for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). He has consulted on the subjects of leadership, management and continuing legal education for government agencies, associations, law firms and law school across the country. Larry is also a licensed facilitator for the course, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” which he teaches twice annually as part of the Georgetown University Management Certificate Program. Larry is a 1974 graduate of the Law Center and a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bars. He received his B.A. from Syracuse University (Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
	Lauren Dubin Lauren is the Director of Public Sector Careers in the Office of Public Interest and Community Service. She joined the staff of the Office of Career Services in 1988 as the first public interest counselor at Georgetown Law. She was actively involved in the initiative to create an independent office of public interest advising at the Law Center and in 1996 joined Barbara Moulton and Kim Matthews to create the Office of Public Interest and Community Service. Lauren has a M.A. in Counseling with a concentration in Career Development. She believes in helping students to set professional and personal goals through ongoing discussion, validation and support. Lauren stresses that although she doesn’t necessarily have the answers, she is committed to partnering with her students as they grapple with the many different issues that arise as they move from first year to second, third and beyond. Lauren feels privileged to work with students pursuing public sector opportunities. Her students inspire her and continually remind her how fortunate she is to work in OPICS. Her outside Georgetown life includes her husband Stan, daughter Arielle (19), a sophomore at Penn State and her son, Ethan (17), a senior in high school and summer 2008 employee of the Office of Student Life here at the Law Center. She is also a board member of FORCE (Facing our Risk of Cancer Empowered).
	Michael Goldman Michael Goldman, a Georgetown University Law Center graduate and a lawyer in a previous career, has been the Jewish Chaplain for the Law and Medical Centers since August 2002. He has been a student of Judaism for most his adult life and has taught numerous courses on Judaica, including courses at Georgetown. Michael is enthusiastic about his career change to Jewish Chaplain and enjoys sharing his enthusiasm with students, staff and faculty.
	Nancy Harazduk Nancy Harazduk, MEd, MSW, is the Director of the Mind-Body-Medicine Program and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, School of Medicine in Washington, DC. To integrate Mind-Body Medicine into the medical school curriculum, she conducts Mind-Body Medicine courses for first, second and third year medical students, nursing students, physiology Masters students, and for the faculty of Georgetown University. In this course, participants are taught to incorporate, mindfulness meditation, imagery, autogenic training, biofeedback, journal writing and movement into their personal and professional lives. As the former Clinical Director of the Mind-Body Medicine Group Program, at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC, she has assisted in developing and coordinating the Center's Professional Training Program, Advanced Training Program and Certification Program in Mind-Body Medicine. As a presenter, facilitator and supervisor, Ms. Harazduk has helped to train over seven hundred healthcare professionals in Mind-Body Medicine. She has coordinated and led Mind-Body Medicine groups for people with cancer, depression, chronic illness, and severe stress. In addition, she has done extensive work with chronically and terminally ill people at the National Institutes of Health and at Hospice. Ms. Harazduk has completed postgraduate training in Mindfulness Meditation with Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, Past Life Regression training with Brian Weiss, MD., and the Healer's Art professional training course with Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. In addition, she is certified in Interactive Guided Imagery by the Academy of Guided Imagery in Mill Valley, California. She has been an avid practitioner of Mindfulness Meditation for the past ten years. Ms. Harazduk maintains a psychotherapy practice specializing in MindBody therapies (including mindfulness meditation and guided imagery) in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
	Alexei Michalenko Father Alexei Anthony Michalenko, from Adams, Massachusetts, has lived in the DC Metropolitan area since 1961. A graduate from The Catholic University of America, he earned his BA in Philosophy in 1965 and his MA in Theology in 1969. Ordained to the priesthood according to the Byzantine-Slav Rite in 1968, he subsequently studied in Rome, Italy, earning a post-graduate degree in Eastern Church Studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute while residing at the Russian College. In 1984, Alexei completed an MS in Psychology, specializing in Pastoral Counseling at Baltimore 's Loyola College (Columbia Campus) and the post of full-time chaplain at Georgetown University Law Center , where he did his counseling internship. A priest of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy (Diocese) of Van Nuys, California, he ministers in both the Byzantine Catholic and Roman Catholic traditions. Alexei celebrates Mass on Sundays and from Monday through Friday in St. Thomas More Chapel at the Law Center. He is available at the Law Center for counseling, spiritual direction, sacrament of reconciliation and marriage preparation. He is also a director/guide for the Prayer In Daily Life Retreats at the Law Center.
	Richard L. Roe Professor Roe directs the Law Center's D.C. Street Law Project and specializes in educating the public about the law. In the Street Law High Schools Clinic, law students teach practical law in high schools in the District of Columbia. In the Street Law Community Clinic, law students teach in community and correctional settings, such as the D.C. Jail, homeless shelters, addiction treatment centers and juvenile correctional settings. He also teaches the Literacy and Law seminar in fall semesters, examining how emergent readers develop their legal culture. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty full time in 1983, he served as Program Director of the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law and Executive Director of the Coalition for Law Related Education in Washington, D.C., and as an adjunct professor in the former Street Law Corrections clinic. He also conducts numerous workshops throughout the country and the world on teaching about the law to the public. Since 2000, he has consulted with Street Law programs in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, England and Cambodia and has participated in several international conferences in the field. He is the co-author of the high school textbook, Great Trials in American History. He has reviewed upcoming arguments in Preview of Supreme Court Cases, written several articles for Update on Law Related Education, edited the ABA publication "Putting on Mock Trials" and is the author of "Valuing Student Speech" in the California Law Review. Professor Roe founded and directed the D.C. Family Literacy Project, which taught prisoners and homeless families how to read with their children and other developmentally appropriate practices. His present research focuses on learning theory and its implications for law and law teaching.
	Carol Walsh Carol Walsh is Director of Residence Life and Student Programs and she has been with the Law Center since 1993. She has played a key role in the development of the Residence Life program as she helped open the Gewirz Student Center. Carol was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated to the United States with her family as a child. She holds a B.A. in Psychology, an M.A. in Professional Psychology, and she recently received her Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology. She is both a nationally certified and licensed professional counselor.