Description:
In observance of World AIDS Day, this webinar will offer a retrospective on the legal, social, and medical struggles and successes associated with HIV/AIDS over the last 40 years. These intersectional perspectives merged to form a new civil rights movement almost overnight, one that continues to this day. Come join the conversation.
- Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021
- Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET
- Format: Free non-CLE Webinar
- Joint Sponsors: ABA Center for Human Rights, ABA HIV/AIDS Impact Project, ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Speakers:
- Dr. Michelle Collins-Ogle – Attending Physician, Pediatrics Infectious Disease and Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
- Allison Nichol – Director of Legal Advocacy, Jean A. Carpenter Legal Defense Fund, The Epilepsy Foundation of America; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Armen H. Merjian – Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Department, Housing Works
- Brad Sears – Associate Dean of Public Interest Law, UCLA School of Law; Interim Executive Director and David Sanders Distinguished Scholar of Law & Policy, The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
- Evelyn P. Tomaszewski – Master of Social Work Program Director and Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, George Mason University
Moderator:
- Margaret Drew – Chair, ABA HIV/AIDS Impact Project; Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts School of Law