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RJ Hazeltine-Shedd started at CHILDREN AT RISK in June of 2011. He earned his undergraduate degree from Vassar College in 1994, where he studied music performance. Following a brief career in arts administration and performance in New York and San Francisco, he became interested in advocating for children through the masters in social work program at Boston College where he provided counseling to youth detained in residential treatment centers. After having received his masters in social work in 2003, he earned his law degree from Loyola University, Chicago as a Child Law Fellow in Loyola’s Civitas Child Law program in 2006, where he represented children in the law school clinic in abuse and neglect cases. RJ then clerked for a state district court judge in Chicago, and went on to work for a small firm that represents school districts in the Chicago area. He and his wife moved to Houston in 2008 where RJ worked for three years in the Harris County Attorney’s Office representing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in the prosecution of child abuse and neglect cases.
RJ can be reached at: rhazeltine-shedd@childrenatrisk.org or 713.869.7740
