D. Kelly Weisberg Receives the Hope Rising Journalism Award
D. Kelly Weisberg of UC Hastings College of Law was awarded the Hope Rising Journalism Award at the 21st Annual International Family Justice Center Conference in April 2021. The Hope Rising Award recognizes journalists from all backgrounds who have helped advance awareness, training, and policy change around domestic and sexual violence, child abuse, elder abuse, and human trafficking.
Previous winners of the Hope Rising Journalism Award include Huffington Post’s Melissa Jeltsen in 2017 for her powerful writing on domestic violence in nearly two stories per week, Lara Logan of 60 Minutes in 2018 for the narrative of her harrowing experience of sexual assault while on assignment in Cairo during Arab Spring, and prize-winning author Rachel Louise Snyder in 2019 for her groundbreaking reporting on traumatic brain injury in domestic violence survivors and childhood exposure to domestic violence.
Weisberg teaches courses on Family Law, Domestic Violence, Stalking, Juvenile Justice, Children and the Law, and Wills & Trusts. Since 2013, she has served as editor of the national newsletter ‘Domestic Violence Report.’ She is also a Liaison to the ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. Her most recent books are: Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co., 7th ed. 2020); Domestic Violence Law (West Academic Pub. Co. 2019); and Domestic Violence: Legal and Social Reality (Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co. 2nd ed. 2019).
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