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Foster Kids Educate the Educators: Improving Education Through Advocacy
Panel of former foster children tell their stories and discuss their experiences with the public school system, education advocacy in the courts, what assistance they had from attorneys, social workers, educators, and others that was or would have been helpful, how their education was impacted by being a foster child in the child welfare legal system, and what impact it continues to have on them now.
Mike Guinn, Urban Youth Specialist
Mr. Guinn has more than 17 years of experience working as a professional emcee, actor, motivational speaker, panel moderator and spokenword performer. Mr. Guinn has also participated in numerous films including the soon to be released Battle Lines. Other films include With Love, Why Women Trip, Roses Are Read, and Trusux, Underground: Under 10. Mr. Guinn has also starred in five stage plays including Keeping The Dream Alive, And The Dream Lives On, Waiting To Inhale, I Wish I had Waited, and Garland and Ritche Man. Mr. Guinn is also a published author and has been the subject of several national and international documentaries as well as several appearances on Good Morning Texas and numerous other TV and radio appearances. Mr. Guinn holds a Masters Degree in Social Work
