Agenda Southwest Regional Hearing Tuesday, June 14, 2005 • 9:00 A.M. Association of the Bar of the City of New York 42 West 44th Street New York, NY Commission Members National Commissioners Charles Mathias, Honorary Chairman; Bill Lann Lee, Chairman; Hon. John Buchanan; Chandler Davidson; Dolores Huerta; Elsie Meeks; Charles Ogletree, Hon. Joe Rogers Guest Commissioners Juan Cartagena – General Counsel, Community Service Society of New York Kimberle Crenshaw – Professor, Columbia and UCLA Schools of Law Miles Rapoport – President, Demos States Covered Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Click panelist's name to view testimony 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Chair: Call to Order • Welcome from Barbara Arnwine • Introductory Remarks by Commissioners 10:00 AM– 11:00 AM First Panel: • Joan Gibbs – General Counsel, Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York • David Paterson – New York State Minority Leader • Martin Perez - President, Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey • Debo Adegbile - Associate Director of Litigation, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund 11:00 AM– 11:10 AM BREAK 11:10 AM– 12:30 PM Second Panel: • Marc Morial – President and CEO, National Urban League • Joseph Rich - Director, Fair Housing and Community Development Project. Former Chief of Voting Section of Department of Justice • Nadine Cohen - Staff Counsel, Boston Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law • Kevin Peterson - Founder, New Democracy Coalition • Randolph McLaughlin – Executive Director, Hale House Center, Inc.; Professor, Pace University Law School • Walter Fields – Director of Political Development, Community Service Society of New York 12:30 PM– 1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK 1:30 PM– 3:00 PM Third Panel: • Greg Moore – Executive Director, NAACP National Voter Fund • Margaret Fung – Executive Director, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund • Carlos Zayas – Community Activist, Redding, PA • Marcos Devers – City Councilman, Lawrence, MA 3:00 PM– 3:05 PM BREAK 3:05 PM– 4:05 PM Fourth Panel: • Hazel Dukes – President, New York State Conference of NAACP branches • Charles Walton – Director for Special Programs, Community College of Rhode Island; former Rhode Island State Senator • Veronica Jung – Executive Director, Korean American League for Civic Action • Ozzie Maldonado – Resident, Passaic, New Jersey • Jose Garcia – Policy Analysis and Advocacy Coordinator, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund 4:05 PM– 4:45 PM Panel Five: Public Testimony 4:45 PM– 5:00 PM Closing Remarks Back to main page