[blindLaw] Question From Gary C. Norman, Esq. L.L.M. Annual Meeting

[GL Norman]

>From Gary c. Norman, Esq. L.L.M.
P.S. Richard E. Shermanski, Esq. (my current mentee), the President Elect Santini (who takes office in 2024), and I will host a light food and forum at the annual meeting brokering more relational connection as to disability in the practice. If you have ideas, please share. If you want, feel free to join us for breakfast on 4 March in Towson, Md as we think through the program.

Friends:
A new friend, and a colleague also committed to disability inclusion, and I have had a panel accepted for the annual meeting in Ocean City, Maryland. Broadly, the panel will multi-task two topics with the overall theme of increasing accessibility and inclusion from a disability-centric point of focus within the profession and in terms of client service delivery.
Action Request: I need your prompt input on an intersectional speaker for the panel. That is someone with a disability but also a concurrent minority status, e.g., color or gender identity.
Helpful ideas are:

  *   I would think we want the speaker to practice here in Maryland or in a near-by jurisdiction, such as Wash. D.C. particularly.
  *   I, Gary, represent, a visible disability perspective. So, it would be good to have a speaker with one or more disabilities, especially an invisible one.
  *   As a panel, we will eventually have more planning meetings. Ideally, we will have some sort of after-action deliverable generating from the panel. Should Maryland, for instance, have a Section or Comm. Related to lawyers and law students with disabilities? (No. It does not yet. It does, however, have a great Disability and Elder Rights Section - not quite the same thing.)