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TOGETHER 2024: 45th Anniversary Gala
Program
September 19, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm PDT
Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley, CA & Online
A great evening of ideas, organizing, delicious food and drink, and activism!
5:30 pm PT
Doors Open
5:45 pm
Zoom + Real-time Captioning (CART) Go Live
6:00 pm
Land Acknowledgment & Introduction
Rain Marshall (Board Member) and Steve Kaye (Board Chair)
6:10 pm
Welcome to DREDF & Video Presentation
Nicole Bohn (Executive Director)
6:20 pm
Keynote Speech
Mia Ives-Rublee (Senior Director for the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress)
6:35 pm
Patrice: The Movie Trailer & Legal and Policy Highlights
Jim LeBrecht (Executive Producer of Patrice) & Claudia Center (Legal Director)
6:50 pm
Parent & Training Information Center Highlights
Julie Barraza (Senior Education Advocate), Omar and Alandra Perez & Jason Conrado
7:10 pm
Call to Action
Nicole Bohn
7:15 pm
Moment Of Silence
Nicole Bohn
7:20 pm
Award Ceremony
Verizon Communications | Susan Henderson Media Access Award
Getty Images | Disability Excellence Award
Justin Ormand, A&O Shearman | Disability Law Co-Counsel Award
7:35 pm
Closing
Enjoy being together.
In Memory Of
We remember those we’ve lost since the last time since 2019, when we were last together.
Ady Barkan
Nancy Becker-Kennedy
Dmitri Belser
Al Bertaina
Lois Curtis
HolLyn D’Lil
Bob Dole
Brooke Ellison
Brett Estes
Engracia Figueroa
Ed Gallagher
Andrés Gallegos
Jonathan Gold
Marilyn Golden
Taylor Heagler
Judy Heumann
Neil Jacobson
Talina Jones
Karen Jo Koonan
Scott LaBarre
John Lewis
Neil Marcus
Stacey Park Milbern
Lillibeth Navarro
Paul Preston
Laura Rauscher
Lawrence Roffee
Marsha Saxton
Susan Schapiro
Bobby Silverstein
Dick Thornburgh
Thomas E. Wallerstein
John Waldo
Hale Zukas
Our Event Sponsors
Presenters
Josh Maddox & Kathi Pugh
Guy Wallace
Visionaries
William Reeves & Ricki Blau
Leaders
The Morrison Foerster Foundation
Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP
Shartsis Friese, LLP
Benefactors
The Gary Payton II Foundation
Justice in Aging
Stanley Yarnell & Victor Rowley
Advocates
Arnold & Porter
Roy and Lori DePole
Anne Jennings & Andy Stacklin
Peter Korn & Anneli Meyer Korn
Partnership to Improve Patient Care
Partners
California Planned Parenthood Education Fund
Disability Rights California
Julia Epstein & Betsy Sandel
Farella Braun + Martel
Lainey Feingold
Fox & Robertson
Susan Freundlich
Dorene Giacopini & Stephen Wilson
Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho
Ronald Johnston and Joan Lesser
Steve Kaye & Mitch LaPlante
Kazan McClain Partners Foundation
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Amy Bat Tzipora
Activists
Henry Claypool & Eve Hill
Sandy Ho
Meri Lane
David Malebranche, M.D., M.P.H.
Prison Law Office
Tina Pinedo
Alix Sabin and Nancy Drooker
Irene Young Photography
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