"Justicia Discapacidad en Nuestra Comunidad"
(Disability Justice in Our Community)
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#DisabledLatinx Conference
July 11-13, 2019

Hosted at:
​The Coelho Center at Loyola Law School
919 Albany St. 
Los Angeles, California
90015

Conference Chairs: 
Jessica Jimenez, CNLD Conference Chair, National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities 
Katherine Perez, Executive Director, The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation 

Committee Members: 
​Nancy Armstong-Sanchez, National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities 
Engracia Figueroa, National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities
Cindy Perez, National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities

About the title of our conference: 
"Justicia Discapacidad en Nuestra Comunidad" (Disability Justice in Our Community) references the Disability Justice Movement that was started with ten guiding principles by the performance project Sins Invalid.  

The National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) worked with members of Sins Invalid including Patty Berne, Maria Palacios, Sofia Webster, and G Gomez to come up with a Spanish translation of "Disability Justice" that best captured its meaning.  We all agreed on "Justicia Discapacidad". 

Please click here to read more about the ten principles of Disability Justice.  They include:
(1) Intersectionality 
(2) Leadership of the most impacted 
(3) Anti-capitalist politic 
(4) Commitment to cross-movement organizing 
(5) Recognizing wholeness 
(6) Sustainability 
(7) Commitment to cross-disability solidarity 
(8) Interdependence 
(9) Collective access 
(10) Collective liberation 

Program (in progress):
Thursday, July 11, 2019 
12pm - 4pm  Check-in 
5pm - 7pm Community Dinner 
7pm - 9pm Reception 

Friday, July 12, 2019
8am - 9:30 am Check-in / Breakfast 
9:30 am - 10:00 am Welcome Address  
10:00 am - 11:30 am - Panel #1
11:30 am - 12:00 pm - Break 
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch and Keynote Address
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Break 
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Panel #2 
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Break 
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Panel #3
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Break 
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Community Forum 
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Reception  

ART EXHIBIT - HERE, NOW 
11:30 am - 4:30 pm 
Come experience New Latin Wave's pop up video collaboration with CNLD "Here, Now" throughout the day at the conference.  The video will be playing on a loop in a break-out room at Loyola Law School for conference attendees to experience at their own leisure.  

(If you are interested in submitting a video to be included in the art installation, please click here for more information.) 

Saturday, July 13, 2019 
10:00 am - 10:30 am Check-in / Breakfast
10:30 am - 11:00 am Welcome Address
11:00 am - 12:00 am Community Forum
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Break 
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch and Keynote Address
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Break 
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  Community Forum
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Closing Remarks