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14 St. John's J. Legal Comment. 457 (1999-2000)
Closing Remarks

handle is hein.journals/sjjlc14 and id is 465 raw text is: CLOSING REMARKS SUSAN KILBOURNE* Thank you for inviting me here and giving me this opportunity to close your symposium. It is always fun to get the last word in. I am going to switch gears a little bit. I was asked to talk about the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to put the specific issues that we have heard today into an international human * Susan Kilbourne holds a master's degree from George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management, where she studied environmental politics and issues management, as well as the opposition to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. She received a bachelor's degree in earth science from the University of Massachusetts, and was a lobbyist for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. She works on children's rights issues with several non-governmental organizations, including the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, ChildRights International Research Institute, and Youth Advocate Program International. She also serves on the Steering Committees of the U.S. Alliance for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Amnesty International USA's Children's Rights Network. Ms. Kilbourne is currently a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, where she was Symposium Director of the Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty. She is the author of several law review articles on children's rights, and has spoken on the subject of political opposition to U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child at many national conferences, law schools, and human rights events. Most importantly, she is the mother of the two most wonderful daughters in the whole world, Alden (eight years-old) and Zo (seven years-old). I See Convention on the Rights of the Child, GA. Res. 44/25, 166 U. N. Doc. A/441736 (1989) (reprinted in 28 I.LM. 1448 (1989)) (with corrections at 29 I.L.M. 1340 (1990)) [hereinafter Convention]. 457