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ADA Live! Episode 70: Celebration of the ADA Anniversary - A Conversation with Senator Tom Harkin

1:00 pm EDT July 03, 2019   |   Organized by: Southeast ADA Center

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The Honorable Tom Harkin - former Senator and Congressman, veteran, author, attorney, and chief sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), will be the featured guest on the July 3, 2019 broadcast of the ADA Live!, a podcast produced by the Syracuse University Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) |  Southeast ADA Center. University Professor Peter Blanck, Chairman of BBI, will interview Sen. Harkin in celebration of the 29th anniversary of this historic civil rights legislation.

Considered the "Emancipation Proclamation for people with disabilities," the ADA changed the landscape of America by prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities in all aspects of public life, including employment, schools, transportation, local government programs, and places of public accommodation. To preserve the intent of the ADA after court rulings weakened its standards, Harkin and former Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the ADA Amendments Act to ensure continuing protections from discrimination for all Americans with disabilities. It was signed into law in 2008. 

In the podcast, Harkin will discuss how the ADA legislation came about, its impact over the last 29 years, and the future of civil rights protections for the more than 60 million people with disabilities living in the United States.

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Tom Harkin

American politician, attorney and author and former United States Senator (1985 to 2015)

Tom Harkin served in Iowa's Fifth Congressional District from 1974 to 1984. Harkin then challenged an incumbent senator and won. Iowans returned him to the Senate in 1990, 1996, 2002, and again in November 2008 - when he made history by becoming the first Iowa Democrat to win a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. He retired from the United States Senate in January 2015. His signature legislative achievement is The Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires buildings and transportation to be wheelchair accessible, and asks workplaces to provide accommodations for people with disabilities. In 2015, Senator Harkin was the recipient of the Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion. He was born in Cumming, Iowa in 1939 and still lives in the house where he was born. He is married to Ruth Raduenz, and together they have two daughtera, Amy and Jenny, and three grandchildren.

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