Hosts and Production Team

Stefanie Panke – Podcast Production

panke Stefanie Panke joined the School of Government as instructional analyst in 2012. Prior to her work at UNC, Stefanie was the director of e-learning at Ulm University (Germany) and worked at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tuebingen, an interdisciplinary institute for research on e-learning. Stefanie holds a master’s degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Bielefeld, completing her thesis in 2009 on the information design of educational websites. Her research and development interests comprise social media, informal learning and open educational resources.

Jeff Welty – Host of Beyond the Bench, Season One

Associate Professor of Public Law and Government and Director, North Carolina Judicial College

919.843.8474

welty@sog.unc.edu

Jeff Welty joined the School of Government in 2008. He was named Albert and Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Term Assistant Professor for 2012–2014. Prior to that, he completed a federal judicial clerkship, spent eight years in private practice, and served as a lecturing fellow at Duke Law School. Welty earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in economics and a JD, with highest honors, from Duke University, where he was executive editor of the Duke Law Journal.

Sara DePasquale – Host of Beyond the Bench, Season Two

Assistant Professor of Public Law and Government
919.966.4289
sara@sog.unc.edu
Sara DePasquale joined the School of Government in 2013. She specializes in child welfare law in North Carolina and teaches and consults with judges, social services attorneys, parent attorneys, and other law professionals. Her publications include Fathers and Paternity: Applying the Law in North Carolina Child Welfare Cases (2016), regular posts to the School’s On the Civil Side blog, and other School of Government publications. Her primer Stages of Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases in North Carolina: From Report to Final Disposition earned the School’s Margaret Taylor Writing Award in 2016.

Prior to joining the School of Government, she practiced for 17 years at Pine Tree Legal Assistance, the statewide civil legal services provider in Maine. She started at Pine Tree as a Skadden Fellow and spent her last nine years there as the directing attorney of KIDS LEGAL, Maine’s first and only children’s law program. She is a member of the North Carolina and Maine state bars. DePasquale received a BA with honors in history and sociology from Binghamton University, is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Law, and also earned a dual degree with an MSW in child welfare/family systems from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

SOG Podcasts

Hosts and Production Team

Stefanie Panke – Podcast Production

Jeff Welty – Host of Beyond the Bench, Season One

Sara DePasquale – Host of Beyond the Bench, Season Two

SOG Podcasts