1:00 pm-3:00 pm: Protecting the Right to Vote
Chairman John Conyers Judiciary Braintrust
Advancing the Civil Rights Agenda
Washington Convention Center: Room 143-A
Moderator: Prof. Spencer Overton, George Washington University Law School
Barbara R. Arnwine, Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Nicole M. Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel- Washington Office, Brennan Center for Justice
Wade Henderson, President & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Dr. Tyson D. King-Meadows, Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore County
Greg Moore, Executive Director, NAACP National Voter Fund
Prof. Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
Becky Pringle, Secretary/Treasurer, National Education Association
Deborah J. Vagins, Senior Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Washington Convention Center Room 143-BKeynote
Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States
Remarks
Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (WI)
Representative Robert “Bobby” Scott (VA)
Moderator & Panelists
Moderator: Congressman Mel Watt (NC)
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Anita Earls, Founder and Executive Director, Southern Coalition for Social Justice