Elizabeth
Vorenberg
Founding President
Elizabeth
Vorenberg has devoted much of her professional life to speaking for children
who often are unheard or ignored.
She
is a former member of the National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union
and she served as Assistant Commissioner for Research, Planning and Evaluation
for the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare during the Dukakis
administration.
Vorenberg
was Deputy Director of the Massachusetts Advocacy Center, the state's leading
child advocacy organization, where she authored the landmark study Delinquent
Justice: Juvenile Detention Practice in Massachusetts.
In
the 1970s, she was in charge of programs for Children in Need of Services for
the Massachusetts Office of Social Services.