Warren Binford

Warren Binford is an internationally recognized children’s rights scholar and advocate who holds a tenured position as Professor of Law and serves as the Director of the Clinical Law Program at Willamette University. She founded Willamette’s Child and Family Advocacy Clinic, which has provided pro bono legal support to children and families in crisis, as well as guidance on legislation and public policy.  She has published nearly 60 law review articles, book chapters, essays, NGO publications, and editorials and has given approximately 150 presentations, primarily on topics related to children’s issues, throughout the country and around the world. Binford holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A., summa cum laude with distinction, and an Ed.M. from Boston University. In her free time, Binford is an avid snowboarder, hiker, backpacker, and mountain climber. She lives in Oregon.

Project Amplify is a national campaign launched to establish legal protections for children in government care so that the brutality discovered on the border  never happens again.