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I<\/span>n the Policy Advocacy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, students are sent to Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana to learn the inner workings of community organization and activism. As a teaching fellow and student supervisor, Delaney Green \u201914<\/strong><\/span> provides strategies to abolish administrative fines and fees within the juvenile justice system. She also teaches students how to interact with judges, probation officers, lawyers, and others.<\/p>\n

Green found her love for melding law with public policy while attending Goucher. Green says, \u201cI realized that I could work on social justice through economic justice and racial justice in a way that meant using those law skills and picking problems apart piece by piece.\u201d That realization led her to the Policy Advocacy Clinic.<\/p>\n

The clinic\u2019s Southern sites address the issue of juvenile court fines and fees in different ways. Students in Alabama conduct exploratory research, while those in Mississippi focus on public-facing action. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of ad hoc\u2014reacting to whatever\u2019s needed,\u201d Green says. \u201cThey\u2019re really learning the 101 of lobbying, which in many cases is just listening to people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Louisiana is home to one of Green\u2019s biggest accomplishments. \u201cThey were the first Southern state to commit to get rid of juvenile fees, costs, and taxes in their juvenile system, which happened [last] spring. It\u2019s the crowning achievement of my graduate schoolwork,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Combining law and public policy to help disadvantaged communities is a sweet spot Green discovered at Goucher, where she started in the Political Science and Dance programs. Green took a Nonviolence in America elective class in peace studies and was inspired to switch majors.<\/p>\n

The Peace Studies Program fulfilled her desire to learn history that reflected her and people who look like her. \u201cBut it also challenged me,\u201d she says. \u201cThe whole point of nonviolent organizing is that you\u2019re looking at this long-term strategy for transformational change and not just doing what\u2019s easy or most convenient at the time.\u201d Being able to consider long-term plans in a city like Baltimore showed the many ways that people formulated \u201celaborate and amazing systems\u201d to address issues in America.<\/p>\n

Green eventually added an African studies minor to her peace studies major, constructing her own critical race theory education.<\/p>\n

She especially loved applying those theories, as she did when her class visited a group of fifth graders to discuss nonviolence. \u201cFor me, peace studies was about learning all this history and doing your homework, but then actually going to the city you live in and engaging with people who were affected.\u201d Those experiences laid the groundwork for what Green does with her students today.<\/p>\n

For Green, creating change means crafting solutions piece by piece. \u201cA lot of people know about U.S. history,\u201d she says. \u201cA lot of people know about public policy. What they don\u2019t know is how community organizers and activists and radical academics have constantly challenged and pushed policies to be more inclusive, more just, more progressive, and more nonviolent. And have been doing so for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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