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Wednesday June 10
2020
 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Sexual orientation and gender identity are core to the human experience. For those of us with less normative identities, like LGBTQ people, popular misunderstandings can cause significant harm and create barriers to justice. Join us in this accessible training, meant for attorneys and advocates in the LSNYC community, in learning about issues impacting your LGBTQ+ clients, colleagues, friends, and family. Together, we can work to make LSYNYC a more inclusive environment and learn how to better show up for one another and our clients.

As Legal Services providers representing some of the most vulnerable clients we must seek to enhance our legal skills, heighten our cultural awareness and sharpen our legal lenses to be more effective in issue spotting, identifying causes of action and strategizing to find remedies for our clients in the LGBTQ Community. From a review of relevant portions of The Rules of Professional Responsibility to issues of housing or employment discrimination to grounds for adjustment of status we must learn to elicit relevant facts, recognize and address bias to the LGBTQ Community. This training is one important step in the process.

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  • When
    Wednesday, June 10, 2020
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias: 2.50
  • Format
    Fully Interactive Videoconference
  • Practice Area(s)
    Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
    LGBT
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Jose Abrigo (Speaker)

    Jose Abrigo is the Director and Supervising Attorney of LGBTQ/HIV advocacy at Legal Services NYC’s (LSNYC) Manhattan Legal Services. Previously he was the staff attorney of the LGBTQ/HIV Project at Queens Legal Services. Jose represents low income people in Queens in administrative hearings, civil, supreme and federal court on issues ranging from discrimination, housing, public benefits, immigration, social security, to name change/identity documents. He engages in extensive community organizing with the clients he serves. In addition to serving clients, Jose has taken various leadership roles at LSNYC in enacting the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan. He is also the main organizer of the LSNYC’s Queer and Transgender People of Color Affinity Group.
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    Iris Bromberg (Speaker)

    Iris is a poverty law and civil rights attorney. She is currently a staff attorney at Manhattan Legal Service’s (MLS) LGBTQ and HIV Advocacy Project, where she represents low-income LGBTQ New Yorkers and people living with HIV/AIDS in a wide variety of areas, including employment, discrimination, housing, and immigration. Before joining the unit, she worked in MLS’ Housing Unit, and still regularly collaborates with the unit on impact cases and direct representation. Previously, Iris spent over three years at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, where she rose from a Pratt Public Interest Post-Graduate Fellow to a staff attorney. There, Iris worked within the policy and litigation unit, handled a wide range of civil rights issues, and focused on strengthening open government through appellate-level impact litigation, legislative advocacy, and public education. Iris is a graduate of Rutgers School of Law, where served as Wenk Public Interest Fellow at the ACLU-NJ, the co-chair of the LGBTQ Caucus, and a Levin Scholar. She completed her undergraduate studies at Rutgers-Newark, where she focused on sociology and genders studies, and was a recipient of the Beth Niemi Award for Excellence in gender studies.
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    Rose Morgan (Moderator)

    Rose Morgan is the Director of Legal Education and Professional Development and leads the Justice Learning Center at Legal Services NYC. Previously, she was the coordinating Attorney for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Education at The Justice Learning Center for Legal Services NYC (LSNYC). Rose has significant experience in early adult education as well as city government enforcing federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws in employment-related matters. She has also developed, coordinated and presented trainings on a city, state and national level for lawyers and other advocates on substantive legal issues as well as discrimination and diversity matters. She has also served clients in local legal services offices in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan providing representation in the practice areas of employment discrimination, consumer and family law. Rose served as a former president of The Legal Services Staff Association and has continued her union work as an active participant on labor-management committees at LSNYC.