Shelley Geballe, is a Professor of the Practice (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health where she has been teaching courses for the past fourteen years in Public Health Law, Health Disparities, and a Health Policy Practicum. As a Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, she co-taught a Legislative Advocacy Clinic for several decades. Shelley also is the Distinguished Senior Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children, a state research and advocacy organization she co-founded in 1995 and led as its President until 2008. A graduate of Yale Law School (1976) and the Yale School of Public Health (1995), she practiced civil rights law with the ACLU for more than a decade, representing, among others, Connecticut’s foster children in litigation against the state child welfare department, inmates with HIV/AIDS in litigation against the state department of correction, and school children with HIV/AIDS who were being excluded from the New Haven Public Schools. Her publications include Geballe, Gruendel & Andiman, Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic (Yale University Press, 1995). She has consulted internationally on public health and AIDS law in China and South Africa and has been appointed to and continues to serve on varied state commissions and task forces. In 2009, she co-founded the CT Mirror (www.ctmirror.org) a non-profit that provides professional reporting about Connecticut government, policy and politics and serves on its Board of Directors.