IAOHRAAgenda2012
2012 IAOHRA CONFERENCE
August 5-8, 2012
Ritz Carlton Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Saturday August 4, 2012 (Pre-Conference)
11:00 AM 6:30 PM: Pre-Conference Meeting/Tour for CPC, LHC, Hotel Staff, Conference Staff
Sunday August 5, 2012
8:00 AM 9:00 AM Meeting Conference Staff
9:30 PM 5:00 PM Conference Registration
9:00 AM 12:00 PM IAOHRA Board Meeting
12:00 PM 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM 5:00 PM
Generation of Leaders
with Hilary Shelton from NAACP Washington Bureau
5:30 PM- 7:00 Opening Reception
Monday, August 6, 2012 International Human Rights/Criminal Justice/Civil Rights
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Registration
Fair Lending Abuse & Mortgage Fraud Training - Conducted by the National
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Community Reinvestment Coalition
8:30 AM - 10:00 PM Opening Ceremony
Invited: President of the National Urban League Marc Morial, Congressman Cedric
Richmond, Congressman Clyburn, Mayor Landrieu
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 PM Session
Lunch with remarks from Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the
12:00 PM -1:45 PM
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Plenary Panel: Opportunities to Build a Human Rights Network between the Federal
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
and State/Local Levels
Invited: Nina Schou, U.S. State Department; Karen Stevens, U.S. Justice
Department; and Vicky Schultz, U.S. Justice Department
Plenary Presentation: Invited: Prof. Manuel, University of Southern California, co-
3:00 PM 3:45 PM
Plenary Presentation: Prof. Mark Sawyer, UCLA Director of the Center for the
Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, author/editor of Just Neighbors? Research on
3:45 PM 4:45 PM
African American and Latino relations in the U.S.
5:30 PM - 6:15 PM IAOHRA Regional Caucus Meetings
· Atlantic Region
· Southern Region
· Midwest Region
· Western Region
6:15 PM-7:15 PM 2013 Host Reception
8:30 PM-11:00 PM Hospitality Suite
2012 IAOHRA CONFERENCE
August 5-8, 2012
Ritz Carlton Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Housing
8:00 AM 5:00 PM Conference Registration
Fair Lending Abuse & Mortgage Fraud Training - Conducted by the National Community
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Reinvestment Coalition
8:30 AM -11:00AM Panel Discussion: Fair Housing Litigation - Public & Private Perspective
With Steven Rosenbaum, US Department of Justice
James Perry, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
David Berenbaum, National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Plenary Session: Understanding the National Neighbors Program
With Michael Mitchell, Director of National Neighbors, National Community
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Reinvestment Coalition
12:30 PM 2:00 PM
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM Plenary Session - Updates from the US Department of Housing & Urban Development
4:15 PM 6:00PM IAOHRA Corporate Meeting
6:00 PM 8:30 PM Evening Reception and Exhibit Tour
8:00 PM- 11:00 PM Hospitality Suite
Wednesday, August 8, 2012- Employment
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration
8:30 AM 10:00 AM Plenary Session: Panel on Age Discrimination in Employment
with Elizabeth Owens Bille, R. Scott Oswald & EEOC General Counsel P. David Lopez
Moderated by Jean Kelleher Niebauer Director of the Alexandria, VA Office of Human
Rights
Workshop on Retaliation Issues
10:00 AM 11:00 AM
with Keith Hill, Director of the New Orleans EEOC Office
Immigration Workshop with Seema Nanda, OSC, Civil Rights Division
11:00 AM 12:00 PM
12:00 PM-2:30 PM Conference Luncheon and Closing Ceremony
Invited: EEOC Commission Commissioner Victoria Lipnic
Thursday, August 9, 2012
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM IAOHRA Board Meeting
9:00 AM- 12:00 PM Conference Staff Closes Down Conference Office