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11/12/2007 ~ 11/13/2007 at Cowin Center, Teachers College
Executive Director
Advocates for Children of New York City, Inc.
Kim Sweet, Advocates for Children of New York City, Inc.
Kim Sweet is the Executive Director of Advocates for Children on New York City (AFC). Prior to AFC, she served as Associate General Counsel at the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI). During her ten successful years at NYLPI, Ms. Sweet spearheaded the office’s special education advocacy work, oversaw and ran the special education pro bono project, served as one of NYLPI’s senior managers, conducted litigation on disability rights issues and led a number of policy initiatives and coalitions. Ms. Sweet is also an adjunct professor at the Urban Law Clinic of New York Law School. After graduating law school, Ms. Sweet clerked for the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, Jr., District Court Judge of the Southern District of New York and spent three years as a litigation associate at the firm of Patterson, Bellknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP. Ms. Sweet holds a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D from Columbia Law School.