Monday, September 27, 2010
7-8:30 p.m.
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Wheeler Auditorium
Baltimore, MD 21201
FREE
Baltimore City alone reports having over 3,000 homeless people, including over 1,200 children. Please join HPRP for the second discussion in a 4-part series with national experts on the importance of housing in our society.
Florence Roisman is William F. Harvey Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis. Best known for her work in homelessness, low-income housing, and housing discrimination and segregation, Roisman served as co-counsel in several landmark landlord-tenant cases while an attorney for the D.C. Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP). Her many awards include the Thurgood Marshall Award given by the D.C. Bar, the Kutak-Dodds Prize awarded by the ABA's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the Equal Justice Works Outstanding Law School Faculty Award, and the Servant of Justice Award given by the Legal Aid Society of D.C.
Following Roisman's presentation, a panel of local experts will discuss possibilities for implementation of her ideas. Panelists include: J. Peter Sabonis, Esq., Assistant Director of Advocacy for Income, Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.; Jeremy Rosen, Policy Director, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty; and Jeff Singer, President & CEO, Health Care for the Homeless.
The Homeless Persons Representation Project's Speaker Series is generously sponsored by Jane Harrison.
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