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   Join the Miami Valley Fair Housing Center and the Dayton Area Board of REALTORS® for our annual celebration of Fair Housing Month. Sorry, registration is now closed. Thursday, April 8, 2010 David H. Ponitz Sinclair Center Sinclair Community College Dayton, Ohio The event includes a fair housing workshop accredited for continuing education for REALTORS® and other housing professionals, the Fair Housing luncheon, keynote speakers John Trasviña and Vicki Schultz, and the Marie Kindrick Fair Housing Awards presentations.
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Generously sponsored by…
John Trasviña — Keynote speaker John Trasviña is the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity,  John Trasviña Before joining the Obama Administration, Assistant Secretary Trasviña served as President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, where he led the “law firm for the Latino community” by advancing litigation and public policy in the areas of civil rights, immigration, education and related issues. Previously Assistant Secretary Trasviña was a member of the San Francisco Elections Commission, president of the Harvard Club of San Francisco, and a board member of the La Raza Lawyers Association. Assistant Secretary Trasviña, a native of San Francisco, is a graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School. Vicki Schultz — Keynote speaker Vicki Schultz is the Senior Fair Lending Counsel,  Vicki Schultz Before joining the Obama Administration, Ms. Schultz served as the Ford Foundation Professor of Law and the Social Sciences at Yale Law School, where she taught courses on emploment discrimination law, workplace theory and policy, and related subjects. Previously Ms. Schultz served as president of the Labor and Employment Section of the Association for American Law Schools and as a trustee of the Law and Society of Association. She has been the recipient of several fellowships, including the Evelyn Green Davis fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and fellowships at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She also has worked as a former trial attorney for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and as a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Ms. Schultz began her academic career at the University of Wisconsin Law School and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. | ||||||||||||
| Marie Kindrick Fair Housing Awards | ||||||||||||
Marie Kindrick was a remarkable woman who for nearly sixty years was committed to working for the rights of those who are under-represented. Born into a wealthy New England family, Kindrick defied convention and expectations and made her life a testament to the kind of work that we honor with these awards. As a REALTOR® in our community, she was a volunteer tutor for the DABR Partners in Education at Ruskin School and also taught English as a second language in Kettering Schools. She served on DABR's Equal Opportunity Committee from 1992 until her untimely passing in May 1998. Each year we pay tribute to Marie Kindrick and honor her for the inspiration to work for fairness and equity for everyone by honoring a Community Professional, a Community Volunteer, and a REALTOR®. | ||||||||||||
| Workshop — Fair Housing Mock Trial | ||||||||||||
A traditionally popular presentation for REALTORS® and other housing industry professionals, the mock trial is a rendering of a fair housing trial loosely based on facts from an actual case. The workshop will examine the legal issues most often associated with fair housing compliance, including issues of steering, occupancy standards, and denials of reasonable accommodations or modifications for individuals with disabilities. The trial will focus on one or more of these areas. The trial will be presided over by a judge, with community members and industry players in various rolls (plaintiffs, defendants, jury members), and the trial will be “role played” for all workshop participants, with opportunity for questions and answers. During jury deliberations a discussion of problem-raising situations that REALTORS® and housing professionals may face in relation to fair housing, such as how to respond to questions about the demographics of a community, will be held. | ||||||||||||
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