Today, there is a special meeting/presentation by Equality PA to host Obama appointee, Chai Feldblum. Here are the details:
Friends: Over the past several months, Equality PA has had the pleasure and honor of developing a great working relationship with The White House. In that time, we’ve worked to bring Obama Administration appointees and thought-leaders into close contact with numerous members and allies of the state’s LGBT Community for conversation and learning.
On Tuesday, June 26 from 2-4pm, we’ll be holding another such session in Pittsburgh with one of the Obama Administration’s highest ranking openly gay appointees. The Honorable Chai Feldblum is dynamic, thoughtful, charismatic and a civil rights leader you’ll want to hear from. We know that the time is short, but we still hope you’ll find a way to attend this unique and intimate roundtable meeting with:
The Honorable Chai Feldblum
Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Tuesday, June 26
2-4pm
The Benedum Center Rehearsal Hall
Conference Room, 7th floor
803 liberty avenue, Pittsburgh, 15222
Chai Feldblum is one of five Commissioners who make up the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a bipartisan independent agency responsible for enforcing our nation’s employment civil rights laws. Feldblum was nominated by President Barack Obama, and confirmed by the Senate, for a term ending July 2013. Prior to her appointment, Feldblum was a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center for almost twenty years, teaching in the fields of civil rights law, statutory interpretation and administrative law. Commissioner Feldblum played a leading role in drafting and negotiating the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as well as the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She has worked to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights over the past two decades, was one of the original drafters of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, and is the first openly lesbian Commissioner of the EEOC. In 2003, she founded and led Workplace Flexibility 2010. Commissioner Feldblum graduated from Barnard College and Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Frank Coffin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. You can follow her on Twitter at @chaifeldblum.