Part 3 - MNLEND Forum Nov 2016 - Panel discussion

MNLEND Nov 2016 Forum Panelists:

The Honorable Donovan W. Frank, United States Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota

Greg Brooker, First Assistant U.S. Attorney

David Ferleger, Attorney with Supreme Court and federal court experience

Pamela Hoopes, Attorney; Legal Director at Minnesota Disability Law Center

Shamus O’Meara, Attorney; Managing Shareholder at O'Meara, Leer, Wagner & Kohl, P.A.

Roberta Opheim, State of Minnesota Office of the Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities

The November 2016 MNLEND Forum explores how litigation can be one tool to advance of the human and civil rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (MNLEND), the event sponsor, is a U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau-funded fellowship program to train future leaders to become change agents who will support long-term positive outcomes for young people with autism and related neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families.