Tuesday, May 12
9:30-10:30 a.m. (PT)
via The Williams Institute
Williams Institute experts discuss their work on LGBT discrimination and how their research informs efforts to pass federal, state, and local protections for LGBT people. Areas of research discussed will include:
- ongoing discrimination against LGBT people,
- the health and economic impact of discrimination on LGBT people,
- additional challenges that transgender people face and the cost of transition-related health care services to employers,
- religious exemptions, and
- the economic impacts of discrimination.
Speakers include:
- Gary Gates (moderator), Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director
- M. V. Lee Badgett, Williams Distinguished Scholar at the Williams Institute, and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration and a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Andrew R. Flores, Public Opinion and Policy Fellow at the Williams Institute
- Christy Mallory, Anna M. Curren Fellow and Senior Counsel at the Williams Institute
- Adam P. Romero, Senior Counsel and Arnold D. Kassoy Scholar of Law at the Williams Institute
- Jody Herman, Williams Institute Scholar of Public Policy
- Douglas NeJaime, Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, Visiting Scholar at the Williams Institute, and Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law
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