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Attorney Geballe is President and Co-Founder of CT Voices for Children. She is also a Lecturer in the Yale Medical School (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health) where she teaches a course in Health Disparities and a Clinical Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School where she co-teaches the Legislative Advocacy class. She has served as
a member of the Law, Policy and Ethics Core of the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale for many years.

Attorney Geballe's research and writing at CT Voices focuses
on state and federal tax and budget policy, family economic security, child welfare and juvenile justice, children's health and mental health and K-12 education. She also currently serves in a number of appointed positions in the state, including the Advisory Committee of the Office of the Child Advocate and the Lieutenant Governor's Working Group on
Mental Health. She has been a consultant in a variety of international contexts, most recently on HIV/AIDS law at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and public health law at the Union School of Public Health in Beijing, China.

Prior to co-founding CT Voices ten years ago, Attorney Geballe practiced civil rights law, serving as counsel in a variety of federal class action cases, including representing the state's abused and neglected children in a systemic class action challenge to CT's foster care system, children with HIV/AIDS who were excluded from the New Haven public schools, women incarcerated in CT's prison system, and CT inmates living with HIV disease. She also taught Federal Civil Rights
Practice at the University of Connecticut Law School. Her publications include Geballe, Gruendel, & Andiman (eds.), Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic (Yale University Press, 1995).

For her work on behalf of CT's young people and their families, Attorney Geballe has been honored by many organizations including the CT Bar Association, the CT Psychological Association, the National Association of Social Workers (CT Chapter), the National Organization for Women (CT Chapter), Casey Family Services, the CT Youth Service Association, the CT Association of Mental Health Clinics for Children, the CT Community Providers Association, the CT Probate Court Assembly, Gateway Community College, the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition, and United Way of Greater New Haven.

Attorney Geballe received her law degree from Yale Law School
(1976) and her public health degree from Yale Medical School (1995). She is married to Gordon T. Geballe, Associate Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and they have three sons, two daughters-in-law, and a grandson.

bio courtesy of www.ctkidslink.org