ABA Section of #CivilRights and #SocialJustice (@ABA_CRSJ ) to host virtual #Juneteenth program Mon. June 17

ABA Section of #CivilRights and #SocialJustice (@ABA_CRSJ) to host virtual #Juneteenth program Mon. June 17

Opening remarks will be by Mary Smith, president, American Bar Association; Robin R. Runge, chair, ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice; and Tyeesha Dixon, deputy counsel to the president of the United States. Speakers include, Chelsie Green, associate attorney, Levin Papantonio Rafferty Law; Torri Jacobus, director of Statewide Equity, Inclusion and Justice, Administrative Office of the Courts, Supreme Court of New Mexico; Patricia Okonta, assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund; and Cary Martin Shelby, Ralph Brill Endowed Chair professor of law, Chicago-Kent College of Law and co-chair, African American Affairs Committee, ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice. D. Wendy Greene, professor of law and director of the Center for Law, Policy and Social Action, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and co-chair, African American Affairs Committee, ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice, will be the moderator.

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