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MD Disability Law Center - "Breaking Barriers" |
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Start Date: | 9/23/2015 | Start Time: | 5:30 PM |
End Date: | 9/23/2015 | End Time: | 9:00 PM |
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Event Description: Tickets $100 and can be ordered online at www.mdlclaw.org/news-events/breaking-barriers or 410.727.6352 x2509
Enjoy a screening of Independent Lens’ outstanding documentary “Lives Worth Living” chronicling key events leading to the passage of the ADA. An extraordinary leader of the disability rights movement who features prominently in the film, Judith Heumann, Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. State Department, will receive MDLC’s Lorraine Sheehan Lifetime Achievement Award. Congressman Steny Hoyer will be present to receive the Breaking Barriers Public Policy Award. Sidley Austin LLP will receive the Legal Advocacy Award. Our Grassroots Advocacy Award will be dedicated to the late Gayle Hafner and presented to Thomas Hicks of Helping Other People Through Empowerment (HOPE). An exciting evening of CELEBRATION!
Enjoy cocktails, heavy hors d’oeuvres before the show & a dessert spread afterward. Plus an Apple Watch raffle!
LOCATION: Wright Theatre at University of Baltimore, 21 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD |
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