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GIR 2018 D.C. Agenda
AGENDA
Wednesday, May 23
4:00-9:00 Registration
5:00-9:00 Exhibits
5:00-6:00 Reception and Networking
6:00-8:00 Opening Session (Z)
Marcie Roth, CEO, Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
·2017-2018 Disaster After Action Report , June Kailes & Melissa Marshall·Getting It Right Act ·Center for Excellence in Inclusion, Resilience and Accessibility Before, During, and After Disasters (CEIRA Institute)Portlight and National Disability Rights Network Memorandum of Agreement (Z)
Four Wheel City Musical Performance (Z)
8:00-9:00 Dessert Reception
Thursday, May 24
7:30-8:30 Registration
8 – 8:30 Breakfast with exhibitors
8:30 – 9 Welcome (Z)
Marcie Roth, CEO, Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
9:00-10:00 W. Craig Fugate, FEMA Administrator 2009-2017 (Z)
10:00 – 10:20 Congressman Benny Thompson (MS), Ranking Member, House Homeland Security Committee (Z)
10:20 -10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Getting It Right Act- How a Bill Becomes a Law (Z)
Michael Gamel-McCormick, Disability Policy Director, Senate Special Committee on Aging, Moderator
Lauren McClain, Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Benny Thompson (MS)
Kim Knackstedt, Rep. Bobby Scott (VA)
11:30 – 12:30 DisabilityRights and Disasters (Z)
John Wodatch, Moderator
Jennifer Sultan, US Department of Homeland Security, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Billy Altom, National Council on Disability
Janet Collazo, Executive Director, Defensoría para las Personas con Impedimentos, Disability Rights Puerto Rico
Rebecca Rodgers, Disability Rights Advocates
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch with exhibitors
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Show Me the Money! Funding Disability Inclusive Preparedness, Response and Recovery (Z)
Ben Smilowitz, Smart Response, Disaster Accountability Project
Rebekah Tosado, DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Marcie Roth, Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
1 :30-2:30 All Disasters are Local-Getting It Right on the Ground (Z)
Kelly Buckland, National Council on Independent Living, Moderator
Disability Leaders from Puerto Rico, Texas, California and Hawaii
2:30-3:30 Public Health, Mass Care and Disability Rights (Z)
Marcie Roth, Moderator
Mary Casey Lockyer, American Red Cross
Margaret Schaefer, DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Merrill Friedman, Anthem Inc.
Patrick Cokley, Anthem Inc.
Zachary Usher, FEMA Individual Assistance
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45- 4:45 Equipment and Devices Lost, Left Behind, Damaged and Destroyed- Now What? (Z)
Carolyn Phillips, Interim Director, AMAC Accessibility Solutions & Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Moderator
Liz Persaud, Pass It on Center
Jessica Michot and Angela Lorio, Trach Mommas
Dustin Snowadzky, Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
4:45 – 5:45 The Inconvenient Truth About Registries, Power, Alerts and Evacuation (Z)
June Kailes, Associate Director, Harris Family Center for Disability and Health Policy, Western University of Health Sciences, Moderator
Sarah Tuneberg, CEO, Geospiza, Inc.
Maria Town, Director, Houston Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities
5:45- 6:15 Linda Mastandrea, Director, FEMA Office of Disability Integration and Coordination (Z)
6:15 – 7:00 Exhibitor reception
Friday, May 25
8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast with exhibitors
8:30 – 9:30 Mayors Forum (Z)
Melissa Marshall, J.D., Moderator
Mayor Maria “Mayita” Melendez, Ponce, PR
Maria Town, Director, Houston Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities
9:30 -10:30 Disaster Recovery and Community Resilience- Housing, Universal Design, Inclusion and Civil Rights (Z)
Brian Parsons, Senior Policy Advisor, DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,Moderator
Rebecca Cokley, Center for American Progress
Sarah Mickelson, Senior Director of Public Policy, National Low-Income Housing Coalition
Chris Smith, Director, Individual Assistance Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency
10:30 -10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Preparing the Territories- What Have We Learned, What Happens Now? (Z)
Adriane Griffen, Senior Director of Public Health and Leadership
Association of University Centers on Disabilities
Daphnee Guilleume, Association of University Centers on Disabilities
UCEED Leaders from Guam, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
11:15-12:00 Getting the Disaster and Disability Story Right, No More Inspiration Porn (Z)
Sarah Blahovec, National Council on Independent Living
Stephanie Hydal, Westside Center for Independent Living
David Perry, Journalist
Anita Cameron, ADAPT
12:00 – 12:30 Closing Session: Getting It Right, Right Now, A Call to Action (Z)
Marcie Roth