8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration
9:00 AM Introductions and Opening Remarks
- Tina Brooks, Undersecretary for Housing and Community Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
9:30 AM Panel 1: More than housing alone: The impact of segregated housing on the quality of life in communities
- John Brittain, Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
- Ingrid Ellen, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning and Co-Director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU
- David Harris, Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Panel 2: Beyond HUD: The critical role of the private sector in enforcing fair housing laws, educating consumers, and promoting integration
- Janis Bowdler, Associate Director, Wealth-Building Policy Project, National Council of La Raza
- Tim Sandos, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals
- Erin Kemple, Executive Director, Connecticut Fair Housing Center
- Ginny Hamilton, Executive Director, Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston
- Cathy Cloud, Senior Vice President, National Fair Housing Alliance
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Panel 3: The federal mandate: Removing barriers to fair housing at HUD
- John Goering, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College and the Ph.D. Program in Political Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Dale Rhines (former Equal Opportunity Specialist, HUD FHEO Office of Enforcement) Michael Allen, Relman and Dane, Ltd.
- Henry Korman, Attorney, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM Panel 4: The Section 8 Voucher program: Promoting housing integration in federal housing subsidy programs
- Xavier Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Barbara Sard, Director of Housing Policy, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
- Cynthia Watts-Elder, Executive Director, Connecticut Fair Housing Center
- Alexander Polikoff, Staff Counsel and Director, BPI public housing project, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI)
