14th Annual Northeast Region
Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference
POSTPONED
Please be advised that the Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference originally scheduled to take place on April 24th has been temporarily postponed due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Although it’s too early to set a definite date as of yet, we plan to reschedule the conference as soon as it becomes safe for us to do so. Your safety and welfare will remain our primary concern.
We will notify you by email once the new conference date has been set.
We have always sought to make the conference relevant to the realities faced on a day-to-day basis by those of us who struggle to make the promise of justice a reality. Over the next few months, however, the unprecedented events through which we are now living will doubtlessly cast a disproportionate shadow over questions having to do with civil rights and access to fair housing. This, along with everything else, will be on our minds when the rescheduled FHCR Conference takes place later this year.
In the meantime, please take an occasional look at our website (www.fhcrconference.com). In addition to conference information, we plan to occasionally be posting information there about the state of fair housing and civil rights in these uncertain times.
Best wishes and good health to you from the Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference Committee.
What The Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference Is All About
Now in its 14th year, the Fair Housing and Civil Rights Conference continues to bring together people who share a commitment to protecting and furthering the rights of all Americans, both regionally and nationwide. The conference provides an opportunity to hear speakers from a wide range of disciplines discuss the state or fair housing and civil rights in America today and share their ideas on how to effectuate change on both a local and national level.
Key Note Speakers
Morning Speaker
Afternoon Speaker
CHAD LASSITER
GILLIAN THOMAS
Chad Dion Lassiter is nationally recognized in the fields of American race relations and violence prevention among African-American males. Mr. Lassiter has worked on race, peace and poverty-related issues in Africa, Canada, Haiti, Israel and Norway and is called upon frequently by media outlets to comment on race relations and violence prevention.
Gillian Thomas is a Senior Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Women’s Rights Project. She previously litigated sex discrimination cases at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund).
Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and Slate, among others. She's a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan Law School, and lives in Brooklyn.
Where Great Minds Reunite
Lectures. Networking. Workshops. Parties.
14 YEARS OF PROMOTING FAIR HOUSING + CIVIL RIGHTS
16 ESSENTIAL WORKSHOPS
OVER 5000
PARTICIPANTS OVER 14 YEARS
OVER 300 INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS PARTICIPATING
Sponsors
Where Great Minds Reunite
Lectures. Networking. Workshops. Parties.
