Joyce A. Bender is the CEO and President of Bender Consulting Services, Inc. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Bender Consulting is a national firm that recruits and hires people with disabilities for competitive career opportunities in the public and private sectors, who are trained in the information technology, engineering, finance/accounting, human resources, and general business areas.
DATE: October 19, 2016
L’Arche communities in the United States provide homes and workplaces where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together as peers; create inclusive communities of faith and friendship; and transform society through relationships that cross social boundaries.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Rory Cooper, Director of the Human Research Engineering Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh.
Date: October 18, 2017
Canine Partners for Life: How Service Dogs Unleash Abilities
Presented by: Kathleen Bell, , Volunteer for Canine Partner's for Life and the SCI-Somerset Prison Puppy Program.
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October 30, 2018
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The University Club / Ballroom A
The Thornburgh Family Lecture Series on Disability Law and Policy.
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
"The Future of Disability Rights."
October 15, 2019
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September 13, 2021 / 7:00 p.m.
"Disability Policy: Beyond the Pandemic."
A virtual lecture presented by:
U.S. Senator Bob Casey
February 1, 2007
Ruth Colker is the Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law at the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University. She is a nationally recognized expert in the field of disability discrimination and is the author of the leading The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act (New York University Press 2005) and Everyday Law for Individuals with Disabilities (Paradigm Publishers 2006).
