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CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND STANDS UP FOR KIDS

Clip: 6/29/2017 | 6m 17sVideo has Closed Captions

Executive Director of Children’s Defense Fund-New York, Samantha Levine.

The right to education, health, safety and equity. They’re all things that all children should be entitled to. But for at risk youth getting them is not a guarantee. We caught up with the Executive Director of Children’s Defense Fund-New York, Samantha Levine, and one of the scholars who has beaten the odds, Elphram Chowdhury.

06/29/2017

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