<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Hi friends, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I hope you're doing OK or at least as OK as possible right now. I'm writing because I am the symposium committee co-chair of this year's <a href="https://tash.org/2020-outstanding-leadership-in-disability-law-virtual-symposium-and-celebration/">TASH Outstanding Leadership in Disability Law Virtual Symposium & Award Celebration</a> and I hope you will consider joining me. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">We are hosting an online half-day legal symposium (you don't have to be a lawyer or law student to come) before presenting this year's award to <b>Judy Gran</b>. The symposium and award celebration feature a lineup of incredible speakers on institutionalization and self-advocacy (which I also worked hard to ensure would center disabled people of color!), including these fabulous folks:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><ul><li><b>Subini Annamma</b>,<b> </b>one of the most accomplished and innovative scholar-activists focused on critical disability studies and critical race theory; author of <i>The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus</i>; Associate Professor at Stanford University</li><li><b>Dustin P. Gibson</b>, co-founder of the Harriet Tubman Collective of Black disabled advocates, organizers, cultural workers, thinkers, writers, and activists; co-founder of Disability Advocates for Rights and Transition, an organization led by disabled people that works to end the institutionalization of disabled people and support them in navigating systems to live in their communities with the dignity of risk; Access, Disability and Language Justice Coordinator at PeoplesHub</li><li><b>Bernard J. Carabello</b>, one of the foremost leaders among Willowbrook's survivors and pioneers of the self-advocacy movement</li><li><b>Cal Montgomery</b>, one of the leading thinkers and writers on neurodiversity and self-advocacy for the last several decades, author of "Critic of the Dawn"</li><li><b>Mathew McCullough</b>, Director of the DC Office of Disability Rights; formerly Executive Director of the DC Developmental Disabilities Council</li><li><b>Claudia L. Gordon</b>, Obama White House alumn and pioneer as the first Deaf Black woman attorney</li><li><b>Debra Robinson</b>, Executive Director, Speaking for Ourselves (SFO)<br></li><li><b>Barbara Ransom</b>, Director, National Advisory Group for Justice<br></li><li><b>Max Barrows</b>, Outreach Director for Green Mountain Self-Advocates; Obama appointee to Presidential Council on Intellectual Disabilities<br></li><li><b>Tia Nelis</b>, TASH's Director of Policy and Advocacy; former president of Illinois People First and chairperson of Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered</li></ul><div>And I'll be joining Max and Tia in conversation with this year's honoree Judy Gran for the award celebration - so if you plan to join us, you'll also catch me! </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Please let me know if you plan to attend or sponsor! <a href="https://tash.org/2020-outstanding-leadership-in-disability-law-virtual-symposium-and-celebration/">Registration</a> is only $20 (yes, twenty) for self-advocates/disabled people and students (okay, and for retired people and for non-professional family members of disabled people); $75 for employed professionals; and $285 for lawyers seeking CLE credit. </div><div class="gmail_default"></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">For those who are<i> </i>lawyers, we've been <b>approved for CLE credit</b> (yay!!!) through American University Washington College of Law (where we hoped to be had it been safe to meet in person without COVID-ing each other). CLE credit is good as follows:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 40px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Total 60-minute hours: 3.0</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Total 50-minute hours: 3.5</li></ul><table style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><th style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left">MCLE State</th><th style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">General CLE</th><th style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;text-align:left;white-space:nowrap">Accreditation Status</th></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">California</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Pending</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Connecticut</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Delaware</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Georgia</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Illinois</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Indiana</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Montana</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Pending</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">New Jersey</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.6</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Pending</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">New Mexico</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">New York</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.5</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Pending</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">North Carolina</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Pending</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Ohio</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Pending</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Oklahoma</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.5</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Pennsylvania</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">South Carolina</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Tennessee</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Texas</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">Virginia</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.0</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Pending</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="gmail-CLEstate" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px 0px 0px;border:none;white-space:nowrap">West Virginia</td><td class="gmail-CLEcredits" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:none;text-align:center">3.6</td><td class="gmail-CLEstatus" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;border:none">Approved</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I hope to see you (virtually, please don't come find me in person) on October 7!! I've been involved with TASH as a chapter leader and volunteer for the past eight years, and I'm so excited to be a major part of planning this year's Outstanding Leadership in Disability Law Symposium & Award Celebration. Please come if you can, and let me know if I'll see you there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Thank you so much,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Lydia </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">________________<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Lydia X. Z. Brown </b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Pronouns: they/them/theirs/themself or no pronouns</font></div><div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Phone: +1 (202) 618-0187</span><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4"> <br></font></div><div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Homepage: <a href="http://www.lydiaxzbrown.com" target="_blank">www.lydiaxzbrown.com</a></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Portfolio: <a href="http://www.autistichoya.net" target="_blank">www.autistichoya.net</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Founder & Director, Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, Survival, & Empowerment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Adjunct Le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