Pacific ADA Center Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Update

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Pacific ADA Center is pleased to welcome you to our annual Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Update Conference. This year’s conference will consist of two full days of topical sessions presented by premiere federal and state experts from Washington, D.C. and California.

Topics include:

U.S. Department of Justice Cases & Settlements
U.S. Access Board Review of ADA Standards & Recreation Accessibility
Employment Requirements under ADA
Website Accessibility
Service Animals
Healthcare and the ADA
And more!

The conference will be held Monday, September 9th through Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 in San Francisco, CA at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel. The hotel is wheelchair accessible.

A small block of rooms has been reserved at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel for the nights of September 8th – 11th. Rooms are available at $289 per night (plus tax) for a single bed standard room and $309 per night (plus tax) for a double bed standard room.

You can make your reservation by clicking on the following link, Book your group rate for Pacific ADA Center ADA Update Conference and clicking the Book Now button on the top right corner, or by calling 1 (877) 666-3243 and mentioning the Pacific ADA Center. Accessible rooms are limited, please reserve early. Last day to make a hotel room reservation at our group rate is August 19th, 2019.

Last day to cancel your hotel room without penalty is 72 hours prior to your scheduled check in.

Early Bird Registration ends August 12th, 2019.

Last day to register is August 30th, 2019.

All requests for accessibility accommodations must be received by August 23rd, 2019.

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Schedule

Event	Time
Registration	8:00 am - 9:00 am CDT, September 09, 2019
Opening Plenary	9:00 am - 10:30 am CDT, September 09, 2019
Morning Break	10:30 am - 10:45 am CDT, September 09, 2019
Session 1	10:45 am - 12:15 pm CDT, September 09, 2019
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM	12:15 pm - 1:15 pm CDT, September 09, 2019
Session 2	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm CDT, September 09, 2019
Afternoon Break	3:00 pm - 3:15 pm CDT, September 09, 2019
Session 3	3:15 pm - 4:45 pm CDT, September 09, 2019
Adjourn	4:45 pm CDT September 09, 2019
Registration	8:00 am - 9:00 am CDT, September 10, 2019
Session 4	9:00 am - 10:30 am CDT, September 10, 2019
Morning Break	10:30 am - 10:45 am CDT, September 10, 2019
Session 5	10:45 am - 12:15 pm CDT, September 10, 2019
Lunch	12:15 pm - 1:15 pm CDT, September 10, 2019
Session 6	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm CDT, September 10, 2019
Afternoon Break	3:00 pm - 3:15 pm CDT, September 10, 2019
Session 7	3:15 pm - 4:45 pm CDT, September 10, 2019
Adjourn	4:45 pm CDT September 10, 2019

Speakers

Alexis Alvarez

Alexis Alvarez is a Senior Staff Attorney and advises and represents people with disabilities facing discrimination in employment and unequal access to government programs and services. Before joining Legal Aid at Work’s Disability Rights Program, she was a staff attorney with the Disability Rights Legal Center’s Cancer Legal Resource Center in Los Angeles, where she helped people tackle legal issues related to cancer. Alexis clerked for Judges Robert L. Hess and Barbara M. Meiers of Los Angeles Superior Court and Judge Gilbert M. Román of the Colorado Court of Appeals. She is a founding member of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities. Alexis received her J.D. in 2011 from the UC Davis School of Law and her B.S. with honors in 2007 from Colorado State University. During law school, Alexis was a senior articles editor for the UC Davis Law Review and served on the board of the La Raza Law Student Association.

William R. Botten

William (Bill) R. Botten, an Exercise Physiology graduate from the University of Kansas, joined the US Access Board in May of 2000. His training experience includes hundreds of presentations over the last 30 years to local, state, and national audiences on injury prevention, disability awareness and sensitivity, and accessibility issues. He was part of a team that developed the combined guidelines for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Architectural Barriers Act. Bill specializes in access issues related to recreation facilities and outdoor developed areas. He also provides technical assistance to the building design and construction industry as well as State and Federal agencies and consumers with disabilities.

Alison Everett

Alison Everett is the Accessibility Issues Coordinator for the City of Pasadena. In her position, Ali provides technical assistance and training to City employees, investigates complaints of inaccessibility, conducts compliance assessments, and serves as the staff liaison to the Accessibility and Disability Commission. Ali received her law degree, Master of Public Administration, and Certificate of Advance Study in Disabilities Studies from Syracuse University, and her undergraduate degree from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Jan Garrett

Jan Garrett is employed by the Public Health Institute (PHI), Oakland, California. She currently serves as the Program Manager of the Pacific ADA Center. A major project at PHI, the Pacific ADA Center is part of the ADA National Network, a group of 10 regional centers across the U.S. that provide information, training and materials to businesses, state and local governments, and disability communities about their rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Center serves the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii, as well as the territories of the Pacific Basin. Prior to joining the Pacific ADA Center, Ms. Garrett held positions in numerous federal government and non-profit agencies. In those positions, she has trained everyone from government agencies, to architects, rehabilitation professionals, individuals with disabilities, and business leaders.

Dr. Robyn Gershon

Robyn Gershon is a Clinical Professor and researcher at the College of Global Public Health at NYU. Previously she served a Professor at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and at University of California, San Francisco, with an Adjunct Professorship at UC Berkeley, School of Public Health. She developed and teaches three asynchronous on-line disaster courses, the most recent is on Healthcare Disaster Management. Dr. Gershon’s research focuses on barriers and facilitators to disaster preparedness – especially with respect to vulnerable populations and essential workers- including the health care and public health workforce. Dr. Gershon’s research is designed to inform policy and practice, as exemplified by her landmark “World Trade Center Evacuation Study,” which helped lead to the first changes in the New York City high rise fire safety codes in more than 30 years. One of her most recent studies: “Mass Fatality Preparedness in the US”, was the first national study on the operational capabilities and readiness for the management of mass fatalities within the US.

Dana Johnson

Dana Johnson is the Enforcement Manager of the Bay Area offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where she oversees investigations of charges of discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Equal Pay Act, GINA and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as amended. She began her employment with the Commission as a trial attorney in the Los Angeles District Office in 1999. She joined the legal unit of the San Francisco District Office in 2008 and became the Director of the San Jose Local Office in 2011. In 2015, she became the Director of the Oakland Local Office. In 2017, she became responsible for oversight of the investigative activities of the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose offices of the EEOC. Prior to 2011, she worked as an attorney for the Commission. In that capacity, she litigated individual, multi-claimant, and pattern or practice cases against private employers. Before joining the EEOC, she worked as a litigation associate at the law firms of Latham & Watkins and Graham & James. Ms. Johnson has a B.A in Anthropology from University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was articles editor of the law review. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Federal Executive Board’s Executive Development Program, class of 2013.

Laney Morgado

Laney Morgado has been working in the disability industry for over a dozen years and has established herself as an accessibility subject matter expert. She serves as the County of Marin’s Disability Access Specialist. She also has her own consulting practice, LM Disability Consulting. With a masters’ degree in Public Administration, Laney understands how bureaucracies work, and is well versed in the issues and challenges unique to municipalities. Helping organizations master the art of ensuring accessibility, she appreciates the complexities of programmatic access. Laney is also affiliated with a variety of professional organizations (California Association of Building Officials, National Association of ADA Coordinators, International Association of Accessibility Professionals, etc.) and keeps abreast of changes and trends in accessibility laws and within the disability community.

Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson, MPA directs the Northwest ADA Center and is responsible for coordinating the activities of the Technical Assistance Unit. He provides technical assistance, training, continuing education, and technical consultation services related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal and state disability laws. His entire career has been in the field of disability-related services, having worked as a Job Coach/Job Developer with a Community Rehabilitation Provider and as a state vocational rehabilitation counselor/supervisor. In recent years, Michael has worked at the University of Washington as a human resources Disability Employment Specialist, Program Manager with the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) Center, and as the Assistant Director of the Disability Resources for Students office. Having personal experience with hearing loss and involvement in the Deaf Community, Michael also specializes in providing information on accessibility and effective communication for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Don Risdall

Don Risdall has worked at the Pacific ADA Center for the past fourteen years providing guidance on the rights and responsibilities afforded by the federal and state laws prohibiting disability discrimination. In 2013, he successfully passed the exam to become a Certified Access Specialist with the state of California and since 2016 has co-taught a four-day intensive training to prepare new candidates to sit for the exam. Don also holds a Master’s degree in Education from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Juliet Shoultz

Juliet Shoultz currently serves as Transportation Systems Engineer in the Board’s Office of Technical and Information Services (OTIS). She has 15 years of experience in transportation planning and engineering for state government. Most recently, she served as the ADA Policy Engineer at the Illinois Department of Transportation where she led development and implementation of the department’s ADA transition plan and served as the department’s accessibility expert, providing technical assistance and reviewing plans for state projects. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board Standing Committee on Paratransit and previously was a member of the Illinois Accessibility Code Revision Committee which was tasked with revising the Illinois Accessibility Code.

Pat Swartz

Pat Swartz has been employed as a technical assistant specialist at the Pacific ADA Center for three years. Prior to joining the Pacific ADA Center, she spent her professional career as a special education and K-8 teacher, a school administrator and a program manager for a nonprofit. Pat holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Education.

Barry Taylor

Barry Taylor is the Vice President for Civil Rights and Systemic Litigation at Equip for Equality, where he has worked since 1996. At Equip for Equality, he has overseen many individual and systemic disability discrimination cases. Barry has given numerous presentations on the ADA across the country to people with disabilities, family members, attorneys, employers, businesses, service providers and advocacy organizations. Prior to coming to Equip for Equality, Barry was the AIDS Project Attorney in the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal working to advance the civil rights of people living with HIV/AIDS. From 1988 – 1993, Barry was a litigation associate at the Chicago law firm of Peterson & Ross. He is a 1988 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he also received his undergraduate degree in 1985.

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InterContinental San Francisco Hotel

888 Howard St

San Francisco, CA US

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