Paradigms In Diversity @ Annual Public Policy & Legislative Forum.

Ma. Cristina Caballero, President of Dialogue on Diversity, announces the Dialogue’s Sixth Annual Public Policy/Legislative Forum, Old Paradigms and New in American Diversity: Partnerships for Empowerment The Forum is scheduled for Thursday, February 22, 2001, 8:30 – 3:00, at the ornate Cannon Caucus Room, 345 Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Discussing the design for this year’s Forum, Ms. Caballero remarked, “As part of the Dialogue’s educational role, we want to bring our ethnic women up to the minute on the public-policy impacts for their businesses and communities. And additionally, we can give them the chance for direct connections to their Congressional representatives.”

The Forum’s morning session leads off with a broad policy overview by Rep. Mike Honda, California, one of the growing Asian contingent in the House. The opening panel takes up Health-Care Services and Retirement policy. Panelists include Bridget Taylor, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee staff, Maria Freese, Senate Finance Committee staff, and Jennifer Stewart, staff of Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson. For Panel II, Immigration occupies center stage. Among the speakers are John Trasvina of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Marisa Demeo of MALDEF, and Alyson Reed, National Committee on Pay Equity. The morning session concludes with another look at the ever changing world of Information Technology, with panelists Victor Cabral, Esq..Verizon, Martha Burk, National Council of Women’s Organizations, and Bridget Gonzales, Issue Dynamics. Emphasis is on the social dimensions of IT, which is forcing a new look at education as
training for flexibility, and at the same time is forcing a policy of speedy extensions of the IT infrastructure to now unreached regions and social groups.

For more information at http://www.dialogueondiversity.org

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