In January, Verna attended a Ms. Foundation for Women Board Meeting.  She serves on the Board’s Executive Committee.  She also served on the Dean Search Committee for the College of Law.

In February, she participated in a symposium, “The Moynihan Report:  50 Years Later,” sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives.  Verna participated on a panel entitled “The Black Family.”  She also discussed Loving v. Virginia, as part of the Campbell County Public Library’s “Created Equal” series, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Verna’s article Social Justice Feminism, 18 UCLA Women’s L.J. 131 (2010) (with Kristin Kalsem), was cited in Jennifer Bernstein & Lainie Rutkow, Hospital Breastfeeding Laws in the U.S.: Paternalism or Empowerment?, 44 U. Balt. L. Rev. 163 (2015); Mary Pat Treuthart, “No Woman, No Cry”—Ending the War on Women Worldwide and the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA), 33 B.U. Int’l L.J. 73 (2015); and Margalynne J. Armstrong & Stephanie M. Wildman, An Homage to Derrick Bell, 36 Seattle U. L. Rev. v (2013).