Day 1 Program - Thursday, November 14, 2024

Day 1 (Thursday, November 14, 2024) Program for Disability and Immigration Conference

Hosted by The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation

at Loyola Marymount University

Time Detail
8 AM - 9 AM Breakfast
9 AM - 9:10 AM Welcome Address (Katherine Perez, Director, The Coelho Center)
9:10 AM - 10 AM Plenary Session
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Break-Out Panels 

Panel 1: Intro to Immigration Law

Panel 2: Intro to Disability Rights Law

Panel 3: Intro to Disability Justice / Community Building

Panel 4: Intro to Disability Studies and Critical Race Legal Studies

11:40 AM - 1 PM Break-Out Panels 

Panel 1: Policy Issue 1

Panel 2: Policy Issue 2

Panel 3: Policy Issue 3

Panel 4: Policy Issue 4

1 PM - 2 PM Lunch/Keynote
2:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Break-Out Workshops #1

Group 1: Healthcare, Social Services and Mental Health

Group 2: Education and Childhood (i.e., Family Separation, DACA, and )

Group 3: Employment, Housing, and Economic Challenges

Group 4: Litigation (i.e., Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and Convention Against Torture)

Group 5: Community, Public Discourse and Refugees

3:30 PM - 4 PM Break
4 PM - 5 PM Plenary Session (2-3 panelists to close us out with a general theme)