Conference Schedule
The Spring 2008 HaLLA Conference: TransLaw
Purpose: The third annual Harvard Lambda Legal Advocacy (HaLLA) Conference will examine the interaction of the transgender community and the law. The panelists, leading activists, advocates and academics from around the country, will speak on topics including youth and families, sex-segregated public facilities, health care and employment.
| 12:30pm-2:00pm |
| Lunch |
John Chipman Gray Room |
| with a welcome by Mara Keisling, Executive Director, National Center for Transgender Equality |
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| 2:15pm-3:45pm |
| Panel: The Trans Legal Landscape: An Overview |
Langdell South |
| Moderator: |
Diego Sanchez, Director of Public Relations & External Affairs, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. |
| Panelists: |
Paisley Currah, Associate Professor of Political Science at CUNY-Brooklyn
Richard M. Juang, Committee for Transgender Inclusion, MA Lesbian and Gay Bar Association
Sharon McGowan, Staff Attorney, ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project
Dean Spade, Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow, Harvard Law School |
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| 4:00pm-5:30pm |
| Panel: Sex Segregation/Gender Regulation |
Langdell South |
| Moderator: |
Donna Rose, Author, Educator, Advocate |
| Panelists: |
Kylar Broadus, Associate Professor of Business Law at Lincoln University
Phyllis Randolph Frye, Partner, Simoneaux, Frye & Thomason PLLC
Elizabeth Rivera, Program Coordinator, TransJustice, The Audre Lorde Project
Lisa Mottet, Director, Transgender Civil Rights Project at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force |
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| 5:30pm-6:30pm |
| Opening Reception |
Hark South |
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| 8:30am-9:00am |
| Continental Breakfast |
Langdell South Lobby |
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| 9:00am-10:30am |
| Panel: Trans(in)Justice |
Langdell South |
| Moderator: |
Dean Spade, Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow, Harvard Law School |
| Panelists: |
Z Gabriel Arkles, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Alexander Lee, TGI Justice Project
Elizabeth Rivera, Program Coordinator, TransJustice, The Audre Lorde Project
Nat Smith, Critical Resistance
Melanie Rowen, National Center for Lesbian Rights |
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| 10:45am-12:15pm |
| Panel: Trans Youth and Families |
Langdell South |
| Moderator: |
M. Barusch, Co-Founder, Massachusetts Transgender Legal Advocates |
| Panelists: |
Leslie Farber, Esq., Attorney at Law
Mara Keisling, Executive Director, National Center for Transgender Equality
Melanie Rowen, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Susan Sommer, Senior Counsel, Lambda Legal
Ksen Pallegedara, Intern for the William J Clinton Foundation |
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| 12:30pm-2:00pm |
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| 2:15pm-3:45pm |
| Panel: Trans Issues in Healthcare |
Langdell South |
| Moderator: |
I. Glenn Cohen, Academic Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School. |
| Panelists: |
Z Gabriel Arkles, Staff Attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Nick Gorton, M.D.
Gunner Scott, Executive Director, Massachusetts Trans Political Coalition
Diego Sanchez, Director of Public Relations & External Affairs, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc.
Charito Suarez, Transcend Project at Cambridge Cares About AIDS |
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| 4:00pm-5:30 |
| Panel: Trans Issues in Employment |
Langdell South |
| Moderator: |
Representative Carl Sciortino, Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| Panelists: |
Cecilia Chung, Deputy Director, Transgender Law Center
Jennifer Levi, Senior Staff Attorney, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
Sharon McGowan, Staff Attorney, ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project
Lisa Mottet, Director, Transgender Civil Rights Project, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force |
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| 6:30pm-10:30pm |
| Dinner and Award Ceremony |
The Harvard University Faculty Club |
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