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ADA Anniversary Update: Celebrating 26 Years

2:00 pm EDT July 19, 2016   |   Organized by: Great Lakes ADA Center

Description

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 2:00:00 p.m. ET

Location: Webinar

Description: Join us for this annual ADA Anniversary Update from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. Representatives will provide updates on current enforcement activities as well as any new technical assistance and training activities from their agencies. Participants will have an opportunity to pose questions to the Agencies as well.

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  • Cost - Free

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  • Continuing education recognition available

    • ​Certificate of Attendance - 1.5 units




Sally Conway

Sally Conway is Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She is assigned to the Division's Disability Rights Section, which is responsible for providing technical assistance about the requirements of titles II and III of the ADA, investigating, and, where necessary, litigating title I, II, and III complaints, and certifying state and local building codes. Holding Bachelor's and Master's degrees, she has worked in the fields of disability and civil rights for more than 20 years. Ms. Conway has conducted training sessions, workshops, and presentations on the ADA for representatives from the public and private sectors as well as people with disabilities throughout the country. Ms. Conway is responsible for the Department's wide-reaching ADA Technical Assistance Program. This includes the ADA Business Connection, the development of new technical assistance materials, and the ADA Information Line, which assists more than 50,000 callers each year in understanding the requirements of the ADA. She also oversees the Department's innovative ADA Mediation Program, which provides businesses, state and local governments, and people with disabilities an efficient, effective, and voluntary alternative for resolving complaints under the ADA. She also serves as Congressional Liaison for ADA and other disability-related matters. Prior to coming to the Department, Ms. Conway was Program Director at Granite State Independent Living in New Hampshire. She has also worked as an investigator for the N.H. Commission for Human Rights (the state agency responsible for enforcing federal and state anti-discrimination laws), as the Director of Medical Social Work in a hospital, and as a music teacher in the public schools.

Sharon Rennert

Senior Attorney Advisor Americans with Disabilities Act Division Office of Legal Counsel Sharon Rennert is the senior member of the EEOC's ADA Division staff, having joined the Division in January 1992. During 2003, she served as Acting Director of the ADA Division. Ms. Rennert develops the Commission's policy interpretations of the ADA, and has worked on every ADA policy guidance issued by the Commission. She also has worked on many of the Commission's ADA technical assistance documents, including drafting fact sheets on telework as a reasonable accommodation and the ADA's application to job seekers. Ms. Rennert was the key drafter of the EEOC's guidance on reasonable accommodation and offers particular expertise on this central requirement of the ADA. She also specializes in providing employers with practical approaches to ADA compliance. Ms. Rennert regularly consults with EEOC investigators and attorneys on ADA charges and litigation. In addition, she works with EEOC federal sector staff and Administrative Judges on Rehabilitation Act complaints. Ms. Rennert has written and delivered several ADA training programs for EEOC staff, in addition to conducting numerous seminars and workshops for attorneys, human resources professionals, risk management personnel, and persons with disabilities. From 1988 to 1991, Ms. Rennert served as Associate Staff Director of the American Bar Association's Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. She directed projects on HIV-related legal issues, developing a model HIV/AIDS confidentiality policy for service providers. Before joining the ABA, Ms. Rennert was Assistant Director of Government Liaison for the Epilepsy Foundation of America, concentrating on disability rights issues. Ms. Rennert received her law degree, with honors, from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. She also received an award for outstanding student law review article for "All Aboard: Accessible Public Transportation for Disabled Persons." Ms. Rennert received her B.A. degree, with highest honors, from the University of California/Berkeley.

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