JAN Webcast Best Practices: Addressing Workplace Harassment – Employer’s Responsibilities

Anne E. Hirsh, M.S. Co-Director

Anne Hirsh has been with JAN since 1986. She became a consultant in 1988 and then was appointed to Associate Manager in 1994. In the fall of 2007 Anne became JAN Co-Director with Lou Orslene.

Anne has a Master’s of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling and Vocational Evaluation from West Virginia University. In 2006 she received WVU College of Human Resource and Education Laddie R. Bell Distinguished Service Award for her national, regional, and local service to people with disabilities.

Through the years she has worked with all JAN teams. Her primary focus was with the sensory team. She currently serves as a "floater" filling in where needed. Additionally, Anne presents on accommodation and employment issues for national, regional, and local audiences.

Anne's research interests include effective approaches in accommodation, educating both employers and individuals on successful means of communicating accommodation needs, and accommodations of individuals with hearing loss and individuals with psychiatric impairments.

Dr. Jeff Daniels, Ph.D.

Dr. Jeff Daniels earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is presently the Chair of the Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling and Counseling Psychology at West Virginia University, and the Director of the International Center for Disability Information.
Jeff conducts research on violence prevention, and he is on the executive board of the West Virginia University Research Center on Violence. He has published articles and two books on preventing lethal school violence and global hostage-taking. Jeff is currently engaged in a national study, along with the FBI, of police officer ambushes and unprovoked attacks.
His interest in workplace harassment grows out of his work on school violence and his involvement with the Job Accommodation Network.

Dexter R. Brooks

Dexter R. Brooks, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Associate Director of Office of Federal Operations, Federal Sector Programs, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C. Federal Sector Programs has a unique role in assisting federal administrative agencies in the development of strategies designed to proactively prevent discrimination and allow federal employees to compete on a fair and level playing field.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Brooks served as the Federal Training and Outreach Coordinator and Attorney Advisor within Federal Sector Programs. Mr. Brooks was responsible for establishing EEOC’s Federal Sector Training Institute which provides a variety of fee-based courses to the federal sector EEO community. He also served as primary contact to the Commission’s federal sector stakeholders providing hundreds of outreach sessions throughout the country.

Mr. Brooks' EEOC career began in 1998, as a staff attorney in the Office of Federal Operation’s Appellate Review Program. Before joining the EEOC, Mr. Brooks served as an Attorney Advisor for the United States Department of Labor in its Office of Administrative Law Judges. Mr. Brooks received his Juris Doctor from Howard University, and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from North Carolina A&T State University.