Dawn Post

Dawn J. Post is an expert in children’s rights, advocacy and litigation, and promotes cultural competence to address the underlying issues of poverty and social exclusion based upon race and socio-economic status in the legal and foster care systems in the United States.

Dawn has led extensive research and co-authored substantial law review articles, relying heavily on the voices and experiences of impacted foster and adopted youth. These articles and the campaigns that followed resulted in changes in policy, practice and law not only in NY but nationally as well. Over the course of her career, she also published numerous articles from a child-centric perspective on the effective representation of children, race and socio-economic factors that impact decision-making, adoption subsidy misuse, the effects of high conflict custody and visitation cases, the use of chemical and physical restraints, and sex trafficking, to name a few.

Dawn is currently working on a creative non-fiction project to elevate the voices of foster children and to bring greater attention to the issues that plague the child welfare system and the damage that foster children experience.