Bio

Susan Vivian Mangold became CEO of Juvenile Law Center (jlc.org) in October 2015, returning to the office where she began her legal career working on behalf of youth in the justice and child welfare systems. Sue is a graduate of Harvard College where she co-chaired the Big Brother/Big Sister Program of Phillips Brooks House. To provide activities for the little brothers and sisters in the summer, Sue founded Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (now Summer Urban Programs). Upon graduation, Sue was the first Program Director at a new Girls Club in Holyoke, Massachusetts, providing afterschool services to inner city girls, many of whom were involved in the child welfare and justice systems.

Sue found her calling in youth advocacy and attended Harvard Law School, where she was Executive Director of Harvard Legal Aid and co-founder of the Children’s Rights Project. Upon graduation, Sue received a Harvard Law School Public Interest Fellowship to work at Juvenile Law Center in 1987, where she worked as a staff attorney for five years.

Sue is Professor Emeritus at SUNY Buffalo Law School where she taught for over 20 years and served as Vice Dean for Academics. Her teaching and scholarship were focused on the area of Children and the Law. Sue was also Chair of SUNY's Strategic Strength in Civic Engagement and Public Policy, and she is an expert on community-based partnership research.
She is co-editor of West Publishing’s casebook, Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy and Practice (6th Edition, 2017). The author of numerous articles on the child welfare system, Sue was the primary investigator on a project funded by the Public Health Law Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the impact of different types of funding on long-term outcomes for children in foster care.

Sue's blogs appear regularly on Medium and with Marsha Levick on Huffington Post. The work of Juvenile Law Center has been recognized by the Editorial Board of the New York Times (2 times) and in articles in the Washington Post and on NBC Nightly News.

She can be found on twitter at @susanvmangold.

Sub-specialties: children's rights, adolescent development, Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, youth in the adult system, impact of foster care and juvenile justice, foster care system, economic injustice, poverty and child welfare, non profit leadership by women.