WEDNESDAY AT 5:30PM - 12TH FLOOR

Practicing Care, is a panel which will emphasize the importance of looking towards impacted people and other professional fields as a methodology for practicing intersectionality in the law. Specifically, what it means to practice law from a disability justice lens. The panel will highlight the importance of looking towards the experiences of impacted people for a framework of legal practice, both within and beyond the educational environment. Practicing Care asks us to evaluate how the legal field is positioned against marginalized populations and how the barriers preventing disabled people from accessing the legal field informs the laws we create. The event will explore how the lack of intersectionality-informed practice of the law  pushes disabled people away from the profession. This panel will address the barriers in the legal field that lead to inequity in the profession, as well as for disabled people across the country.

YOUR PANELISTS

Kenzie Hohman

Kenzie Hohman is a neurodivergent self-advocate. She graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Sociology. Kenzie has fifteen years of experience working with autistic and disabled individuals of all ages and levels of support needs. Her passion for advocating and supporting disabled individuals started with volunteering at a camp for autistic kids when she was 10 years old. After working as a Lead Counselor for the camp throughout high school and college, her experience led her to become an Independent Living Assistant for students with intellectual disabilities at ClemsonLIFE, a Job Coach for the Virginia Down Syndrome Association, and an Adult Programs Counselor at Commonwealth Autism. Kenzie currently provides case management services as a Resource Navigator for Commonwealth Autism. She prioritizes providing neurodiversity-affirming care to her clients and advocating for legislation that protects disabled Virginians’ rights and services. 

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Topic: Practicing Care: Disability Justice in Legal Education

Time: Apr 17, 2024 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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https://ubalt.zoom.us/j/93135907024

Meeting ID: 931 3590 7024

Lydia X.Z. Brown

Lydia X. Z. Brown was a Policy Counsel with CDT’s Privacy and Data Project, focused on disability rights and algorithmic fairness and justice. Their work has investigated algorithmic harm and injustice in public benefits determinations, hiring algorithms, and algorithmic surveillance that disproportionately impact disabled people, particularly multiply-marginalized disabled people. Outside of their work at CDT, Lydia is an adjunct lecturer and core faculty in disability studies at Georgetown University, and the founding director of the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment. They serve on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights, co-chair the ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice’s Disability Rights Committee, serve as co-president of the Disability Rights Bar Association, and represent the Disability Justice Committee on the National Lawyers Guild’s board. Lydia is a founding board member of the Alliance for Citizen-Directed Supports, and serves on several advisory committees, including for the Law and Politics of Digital Mental Health Technology project at the University of Melbourne, the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University, and the Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation at Loyola Law School.