In celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and in the fifth year following passage of the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), please join us for brief remarks from congressional, civil rights, and business community champions of the ADAAA, followed by the release and summary of NCD’s latest report, The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008: Impact on Disability Discrimination, which provides an analysis of federal court cases decided under the ADAAA since it went into effect in January of 2009. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI)
Cheryl Sensenbrenner
Chai Feldblum, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Sandy Finucane, Senior Advisor, Epilepsy Foundation
Nancy Zirkin, Executive Vice President, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Wade Henderson, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Randel K. Johnson, Senior Vice President, Labor, Immigration, & Employee Benefits, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Michael Eastman, former Executive Director, Labor Policy, US Chamber of Commerce
Professor Robert L. Burgdorf Jr., University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law |