[blindlaw] Registration Now Open for the 2016 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

[Blake, Lou Ann]

Registration is Now Open!

for the

2016 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

Diversity in the Disability Rights Movement: Working Together to Achieve the Right to Live in the World

March 31 - April 1, 2016
at the
National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute
Baltimore, Maryland

Don't miss this opportunity to hear 2016 keynote speaker U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson and leading disability rights and civil rights advocates examine the status of diversity in the disability rights movement and explore ways to increase diversity so that all may achieve Dr. tenBroek's vision of equality of opportunity. Other speakers will include:

  *   Samuel Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
  *   Alison Barkoff, Director of Advocacy, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  *   Rabia Belt, Research Fellow, Stanford Law School
  *   Claudia Center, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
  *   Matthew W. Dietz, President and Litigation Director, Disability Independence Group, Inc.
  *   Jane Dunhamn, Director, National Black Disability Coalition
  *   Regina Kline, Trial Attorney, Disability Rights Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
  *   Jonathan Lazar, Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University
  *   David Lepofsky, Chair, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance
  *   Anil Lewis, Executive Director, National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute
  *   Alison J. Lynch, Staff Attorney, Disability Rights New York
  *   Kathleen Martinez, Senior Vice President, Disability Market Segment & Strategy, Wells Fargo & Company
  *   Jonathan Martinis, Legal Director, Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities
  *   Marc Maurer, Immediate Past President, National Federation of the Blind
  *   Alice Wong, Advisory Board Member, Asian and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California

Documentation for CLE credits will be provided.

Registration fee: $175
Student registration fee: $25

For more information about the symposium, hotel accommodations, and symposium sponsorship opportunities, please visit https://nfb.org/law-symposium.

You can register online by going to: https://nfb.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=60

You may also download from the symposium website a registration form to mail or fax.

For additional information, contact:

Lou Ann Blake, JD
Law Symposium Coordinator
Jernigan Institute
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Telephone: 410-659-9314, ext. 2221
Email: lblake at nfb.org<mailto:lblake at nfb.org>

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